To support the catalogue, educational programs, and the 2007 exhibition Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation at three venues in the People’s Republic of China: the National Art Museum of China (Beijing, China), the Shanghai Museum (Shanghai, China), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (Shanghai, China). The exhibition is the first survey of American art to be presented in China and was organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, in partnership with the Terra Foundation. The exhibition features approximately one hundred thirty important works of American art spanning the colonial period to the present age and explores issues of identity, creation, innovation, and scale.