The Asian Art Museum, effectively, has to figure out what an Asian art museum looks like. “People aren’t necessarily going to come to museums because they know art or gravitate toward art,” Lee explained. She comes to the Asian Art Museum from the Harvard Art Museums, where she served as chief curator. Where does that leave the Asian Art Museum? She finds San Francisco’s art world to be more collaborative than, say, New York’s, but she must know that the Asian Art Museum’s new era could be cannibalized by its contemporaries.