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A Chinese Fish Vase, Found in an Attic, Swims to an $85 Million World Record in London
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Activism and the Rise of Alternative Art Spaces at Exit Art (Panel Talk)
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October 27, 2010
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DATE: FRIDAY, OCT 29TH, 6PM-9PM
LOCATION: EXIT ART, 475 Tenth Ave, New York, NY 10018 (map)
In conjunction with Exit Art's Alternative Histories exhibition, a panel talk entitles "Activism and the Rise of Alternative Art Spaces" will be held on Friday 10/29.
Robert Lee, director of Asian American Arts Centre will discuss the founding of the Asian American Art Centre:
Its relation to the Asian American movement; its emergence from the activities of the Basement Workshop (1970-mid1980s); Its establishment as the non-profit Asian American Dance Theatre in 1974 and changing to its current name in 1986; its expansion to include the presentation of contemporary art exhibitions in 1983, as well as its other folk art and educational programs and activities.
Moderator: Mary Anne Staniszewski, Associate Professor and Acting Head of the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
Participants: Robert Lee, Director, Asian American Arts Center; Beka Economopoulos, Co-Founder / Director, Not An Alternative; Alanna Heiss, Founder, P.S.1, Director, AIR and Clocktower Gallery; Avram Finkelstein, Gran Fury; Melissa Rachleff Burtt, Clinical Associate Professor of Arts Administration, NYU
Investigating the early history of New York alternative spaces, this panel looks at the genesis, culture and legacy of this movement in the context of activism and political agency.
Please RSVP to this event: http://www.exitart.org/support/rsvp. Each public event during the Alternative Histories exhibition is $5.00 which can be paid on line or at the door.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Endangered Art/ists - China exhibition at Flushing Town Hall
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October 12, 2010
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Date: October 16, 2010 - Sunday, November 14, 2010
Opening Reception: October 16, 2010, 5-7pm.
Gallery Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12-5pm
Celebrate the 5,000 year history of traditional Chinese arts and textiles and the endangered artists who are slowly vanishing due to lack of civic support and market economies. Highlights of past and present work created by indigenous artists living in Southwestern China and Hainan Island, including exquisite textiles, traditional lacquer-ware, and ritual masks.
From the private collection of Andrew and Lily Wang.
An exhibit of exquisite textiles, traditional lacquer-ware, and ritual masks by indigenous artists living in Southwestern China and Hainan Island.
The history of traditional arts and textiles in China spans over 5000 years and has influenced arts and culture across Asia and around the world. Today these artists are slowly vanishing due to lack of civic support and market economies that de-emphasize the value of quality artwork created by traditional methods and materials. This exhibition highlights both past and present work created by traditional artists from minority ethnic groups Miao, Gejia, Tujia, Gelao, Yao, Yi, Dai, Li, and Zhang who live in areas across Southwestern China and in Hainan Island. One of the goals of including old and new pieces in this exhibit is to help us appreciate an art form that, while ancient in practice, is still alive in the hands of these indigenous artists. As members of the global community and patrons of the arts, what is our role, if any, to support these artists so that they can continue these traditional practices to create new work and pass the skills on to future generations? What would it mean if the artists and skills needed to create this kind of work became a thing of the past?
For more information, go to Flushing Town Hall - Exhibitions
Sunday, October 10, 2010
AAAC Presents... ART SLAM 2010!
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October 10, 2010
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THURSDAY OCT 14TH, 5PM-630PM
Participating Artists:
Jing Zhou, Vivian Oyarbide, Maia Cruz Palileo, Uday Kdhar, Carol Tanjutco.
THURSDAY OCT 21ST, 5PM-630PM
Participating Artists:
Dmitry Borshch, Susan Lee Yung, Justin Baldwin, Betty T. Kaos, Roshani Thakore.
*Stay for the Asian American Arts Centre Community Potluck!630PM- 730PM immediately following the ArtSlam Presentations (see below for more information)
For the past several years, the Asian American Arts Centre has held a series of art slams, allowing emerging artists the opportunity to present and talk about their work, meet and network with each other as well as with more established artists and critics/curators. Last year, the Centre hosted three slide slams, showcasing the work of fifteen artists working in various media.
On Thursdays, Oct 14th and Oct 21st, Asian American Arts Centre will be hosting the annual ART SLAM showcasing the work of emerging Asian-American & Asia influenced artists.
*The October 21st Art Slam will feature a special potluck event (dish encouraged but not required to attend!) to support and promote the Asian American Arts Centre community. Please join us at 5 pm to see artist presentations and stay to enjoy food and meet staff, artists, and friends!
Admission is FREE. EVERYONE is invited. BRING YOUR FRIENDS!
The
ART SLAM series is made possible in part with public funds from the New
York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and from The New York
Department of Cultural Affairs. The Asian American Arts Centre was
founded in 1974 in New York City as a not-for-profit organization to
address the distinctive concerns of Asian Americans in the United
States. Its mission is to promote the preservation and creative
vitality of Asian American cultural growth through the arts, and its
historical and aesthetic linkage to other communities.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Roger Shimomura: "An American Knockoff"
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October 06, 2010
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Location: The Flomenhaft Gallery
Date: October 28th - December 11th, 2010
The Flomenhaft Gallery is proud to present Roger Shimomura’s newest series of artworks, “An American Knockoff.” The title eludes to Shimomura’s experience as a third generation American citizen who is all too often asked what part of Japan he comes from, and is too often misconnected to so-called “oriental” physical and behavioral traits. Actually he was born in Seattle and unfortunately spent several years of his childhood in an internment camp, Minidoka, in Idaho. These works are his “attempt to ameliorate the outrage of the misconceptions” and “in tongue-in-cheek fashion he becomes the same stereotypes.”
Roger
Shimomura, in painting, prints and theater pieces has always addressed
the sociopolitical issues of Asian Americans. He has had over 125 solo
exhibitions and has presented theater pieces throughout the country.
He is the recipient of more than 30 grants, four of which came from the
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting and Performance
Art. He has lectured and has been a visiting artist at more than 200
universities, and the College Art Association presented him with the
Artist Award for Most Distinguished Body of Work in 2002 for his four
year, twelve museum tour of the painting exhibition “An American
Diary.” It was based on the diaries his grandmother kept from the time
she came to America as a photograph wife and includes her experiences
in Minidoka. Shimomura was a Distinguished Professor at the School of
Fine Arts at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, from 1969 until he
retired in 2004. He is now the University Distinguished Professor of
Art Emeritus of the University of Kansas.
Read more at Flomenthaft Gallery
Date: October 28th - December 11th, 2010
The Flomenhaft Gallery is proud to present Roger Shimomura’s newest series of artworks, “An American Knockoff.” The title eludes to Shimomura’s experience as a third generation American citizen who is all too often asked what part of Japan he comes from, and is too often misconnected to so-called “oriental” physical and behavioral traits. Actually he was born in Seattle and unfortunately spent several years of his childhood in an internment camp, Minidoka, in Idaho. These works are his “attempt to ameliorate the outrage of the misconceptions” and “in tongue-in-cheek fashion he becomes the same stereotypes.”
Shimomura’s newest
paintings, in fabulous color, almost all include a self portrait. We
see him, in art critic Lucy Lippard’s words “kicking ass” at his own
country. They are dynamic, filled with references to pop art, in works
such as “American vs. Disney Stereotypes.” The paintings
include Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Popeye and the three
little pigs, also Ukiyo theater folk. Often mistaken for Chinese, he
goes for it and represents himself as a “Chinese Imposter,” as a
General leading his Chinese army, and in other works he stands in for a
Chinese communist, but also points at the color confusion by
representing celebrants of Mao. A most powerful work represents the
conundrum in Shimomura’s life, “American vs. Japs.” It shows
him acting the part of a Japanese American, making a distinction
between himself and the Japanese enemy during WWII. Here he kicks the
Jap’s ass. What a turn of events.
Roger
Shimomura, in painting, prints and theater pieces has always addressed
the sociopolitical issues of Asian Americans. He has had over 125 solo
exhibitions and has presented theater pieces throughout the country.
He is the recipient of more than 30 grants, four of which came from the
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting and Performance
Art. He has lectured and has been a visiting artist at more than 200
universities, and the College Art Association presented him with the
Artist Award for Most Distinguished Body of Work in 2002 for his four
year, twelve museum tour of the painting exhibition “An American
Diary.” It was based on the diaries his grandmother kept from the time
she came to America as a photograph wife and includes her experiences
in Minidoka. Shimomura was a Distinguished Professor at the School of
Fine Arts at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, from 1969 until he
retired in 2004. He is now the University Distinguished Professor of
Art Emeritus of the University of Kansas.
Presently there is a travelling show entitled “Yellow Terror: the Collection and Paintings of Roger Shimomura,”
co-curated by Roger and Dr. Stacey Uradomo-Barre, the curator for the
Art in Public Places Program of the Hawaiian State Foundation on
Culture and the Arts. It was produced by the Wing Luke Museum,
Seattle, our nation’s only pan-Asian Pacific American museum and an
affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. From Wing Luke it will go
to the Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University,
opening on October 21st.
Read more at Flomenthaft Gallery
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sexed Asian Machines: On The Communicability Of Multimedia
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September 16, 2010
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Sexed Asian Machines: On The Communicability Of Multimedia
Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Jian Chen, Gallatin School Of Individualized Study, NYU
Date: Monday, Sep 20th
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Location:
A/P/A Institute, Room 709
41-51 East 11th Street
7th Floor, Room 709
New York, NY 10003
Free and open to the public.
To RSVP:Email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or Call 212-992-9653
Brown Bag Lunch Talk with Jian Chen, Gallatin School Of Individualized Study, NYU
Date: Monday, Sep 20th
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Location:
A/P/A Institute, Room 709
41-51 East 11th Street
7th Floor, Room 709
New York, NY 10003
Free and open to the public.
To RSVP:Email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or Call 212-992-9653
Bring your own lunch and A/P/A Institute will provide beverages and dessert!
Chen’s talk will focus on semi-documentaries on sex work and mainstream online pornography, which feature Asian feminine subjects. Chen contends that these docu/porn forms make potentially explicit the paradoxical relationships between autonomy and control, enjoyment and labor, shaping image consumption and cultural visibility within transnational neoliberal capitalism. And Chen's talk will explore the racial, sexual fantasies that support the imagined free-flow circulation of images and information within multimedia public spheres.
For more information and to RSVP, contact TK
Jian Chen is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Chen’s current research explores new demands made on cultural consumption, representation, and politics, with the transnational circulation of sexed racial and ethnic images in post-cinematic film and media. Chen’s article “Sex Without Friction: the Limits of Multi-Mediated Human Subjectivity in Cheang Shu Lea’s Tech-Porn” is forthcoming in the electronic journal Postmodern Culture.
Cosponsored with the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and the Gallatin School for Individualized Study
For more information, go to A/P/A Institute at New York University.
ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES at Exit Art
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ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES at Exit Art
September 24 - November 24, 2010
Opening Friday, September 24, 7pm - 9pm
Alternative Histories is a history of New York City
alternative art spaces and projects since the 1960s. Through audio
interviews with founders and key staff, a reading room of magazines and
publications, documentation, ephemera and narrative descriptions, the
exhibition will tell the story of pioneering spaces – like P.S.1,
Artists Space, Fashion Moda, Taller Boricua, ABC No Rio, The Kitchen,
Franklin Furnace, Exit Art, 112 Greene Street, White Columns, Creative
Time, Electronic Arts Intermix, Anthology Film Archives, Storefront for
Art and Architecture, Just Above Midtown, and many more – as well as
document a new generation of alternative projects such as Live With
Animals, Fake Estate, Apartment Show, Pocket Utopia, Cleopatra’s,
English Kills Art Gallery, Triple Candie, Esopus Space, and others.
Over 130 spaces are represented in the show, which elaborates on the significant contributions these organizations made to the cultural fabric of New York City. They gave visibility and inclusion to otherwise excluded artists and ideas. The idealism of the founders, the hard work and dedication of everyone involved in sustaining these histories, against all odds, illustrates the dynamic purposes that propel the artistic scene in New York. “Imagination is an alternative to reality, creating options that never end,” says Papo Colo.
The exhibition incorporates a broad definition of the term “alternative space,” and includes significant publications and artist collectives to cover a broad arc of this history – bridging neighborhoods, decades and themes. In the development and organization of this exhibition, the curatorial team viewed dozens of archives and personal collections – selecting critical materials from the histories of the spaces and projects – and interviewed founders and early staff members, when possible, to construct a narrative about the alternative space movement in New York and its continuing impact on the city’s cultural and artistic landscape.
For more information go to Exit Art
September 24 - November 24, 2010
Opening Friday, September 24, 7pm - 9pm
Over 130 spaces are represented in the show, which elaborates on the significant contributions these organizations made to the cultural fabric of New York City. They gave visibility and inclusion to otherwise excluded artists and ideas. The idealism of the founders, the hard work and dedication of everyone involved in sustaining these histories, against all odds, illustrates the dynamic purposes that propel the artistic scene in New York. “Imagination is an alternative to reality, creating options that never end,” says Papo Colo.
The exhibition incorporates a broad definition of the term “alternative space,” and includes significant publications and artist collectives to cover a broad arc of this history – bridging neighborhoods, decades and themes. In the development and organization of this exhibition, the curatorial team viewed dozens of archives and personal collections – selecting critical materials from the histories of the spaces and projects – and interviewed founders and early staff members, when possible, to construct a narrative about the alternative space movement in New York and its continuing impact on the city’s cultural and artistic landscape.
For more information go to Exit Art
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Autoerotic Asphyxiation by Danh Vo at Artist Space
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September 11, 2010
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Location: Artist Space, 38, Green St. NYC
Tel: 212.226.3970
Date: September 11 - November 2, 2010
Danh Vo (Born 1975, Ba Ria, Vietnam) recent exhibitions include 6th Berlin Biennial (2010); Gwangju Biennial (2010); Where the Lions Are, Kunsthalle Basel (2009); Package Tour, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2008).
Autoerotic Asphyxiation, Danh Vo’s first exhibition in the USA, is made possible through the generous support of Shelley Fox Aarons & Philip Aarons, The Danish Arts Council, The Friends of Artists Space, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
Go to Artist Space for more information.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Open City: Fay Chiang and Peter Kwong on Gentrification on Chinatown/Loisada
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July 27, 2010
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Date: July 27, 2010: 7pm - 730pm
Location: The Asian American Writers' Workshop: 110-112 W. 27th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY
Location: The Asian American Writers' Workshop: 110-112 W. 27th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY
Peter Kwong and Fay Chiang
Galleries, luxury condos, displacement, rezoning, affordable housing,
neighborhood preservation. These are a few keywords in the active and
ongoing conversation about gentrification, development, and urban
change more broadly. But what is the role of writing in the face of
this kind of urban change? Two activists, scholar Peter Kwong of Hunter
College/CUNY and artist Fay Chiang, will thread pe...rsonal
accounts of their lives as scholars and artists in Chinatown/Loisada
with broader analyses of neighborhoods in flux. Their discussion will
launch the Workshop’s community-based writers fellowship, "OPEN CITY:
Blogging Urban Change," where fellows collect oral history from
residents of Chinatown/LES, Sunset Park, and Flushing. Partnering with
the Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA) and its Archeology of Change
Project, Open City is an innovative spin on the neighborhood blog, one
that incorporates oral history, video/audio content, and new
interdisciplinary writing.
Chiang’s recently released book of selected poems, 7 Continents, 9 Lives, spans 20 years of poetry as a Queens native and a Lower East Side activist, revealing the multiple lives of the city, ranging from widows to a man’s final steps into an AIDS hospice. Kwong’s classic study The New Chinatown, was heralded as a “splendid antidote to the consistent misrepresentation of Chinese-American life in the press and in scholarly writings” by David Montgomery of Yale University.
@The Asian American Writers' Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
buzzer 600
Free and open to the public
Programs funded, in part, by the New York City Council for the Humanities.
Chiang’s recently released book of selected poems, 7 Continents, 9 Lives, spans 20 years of poetry as a Queens native and a Lower East Side activist, revealing the multiple lives of the city, ranging from widows to a man’s final steps into an AIDS hospice. Kwong’s classic study The New Chinatown, was heralded as a “splendid antidote to the consistent misrepresentation of Chinese-American life in the press and in scholarly writings” by David Montgomery of Yale University.
@The Asian American Writers' Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
buzzer 600
Free and open to the public
Programs funded, in part, by the New York City Council for the Humanities.
(via AAWW)
Thursday, July 22, 2010
8 ARTISTS: FROM THE AAAC ARCHIVE
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July 22, 2010
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Date: August 14 - September 11, 2010
Location: Cuchifritos
Address: 120 Essex Street, Essex
Street Market, New York, NY 10002
Opening Reception: Saturday, Aug 14th, 4pm - 630pm 
Artists: Charles Yuen, Dinh Q. Le , Dorothy Imagire, Eunjung Hwang, Howardina
Pindell, Nancy Hom, Roger Shimomura
In collaboration with the Artists Alliance Inc.(AAI) an AAAC
(Asian American Arts Centre) exhibition entitled tentatively, “Eight Artists:
from the Archive”, will be installed in the Cuchifritos art gallery/project
space located inside the Essex Street Market from August
14th - September 11th 2010.
This exhibition of Eight Artists from the Archive brings a few
chosen artists to the public, focused on those presented in AAAC’s digital
archive – artasiamerica.org. The
best way to present a context for such art at Cuchifritos is through the
presence of the digital archive.
Making this resource available on site and demonstrating the ease of
tapping into it. AAAC has been gathering its physical archive of images and
documents of Asian American artists for over two decades, and a good portion of
this resource is now online. Go to artasiamerica.org and/or come to the gallery
and ask for a tour of it there.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Dinh Q. Le's installation for Projects 93 at MoMa
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July 14, 2010
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Location: Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York
June 30, 2010- January 24, 2011
Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnamese American, b. 1968) weaves together—both literally and figuratively—personal recollections with larger histories and mythologies often related to the Vietnam War, also known as the American War in Lê’s native country. For Projects 93, Lê presents The Farmers and The Helicopters (2006), an installation comprised of a three-channel video and a helicopter hand-built from scrap parts by Le Van Danh, a farmer, and Tran Quoc Hai, a self-taught mechanic. For more information, visit http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1061
Thursday, July 1, 2010
150 Years of Tansu : The Cabinetry Heritage of Japan
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July 01, 2010
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Date: Jul 13, 2010 to Aug 04, 2010
Location: Nippon Gallery ( The
Nippon Club) 145 West 57th Street, New York
As part of a
celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the first Japanese diplomatic
delegation to New York, this art how demonstrates `how tansu chests evolved
along with the social, technological and political changes in Japan over the
last 150 years’. 20 important tansu `define Japan’s cabinetry heritage, and
reflect on 150 years of Japan’s economic expansion and influence’.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Last Empress and the Publisher: America and the Birth of Modern China
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June 30, 2010
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Date: Jul 21, 2010 | 6:30pm to 8:30 pm
Location: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York
Location: Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York
Authors Hannah Pakula (The Last
Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China) and Alan
Brinkley (The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century) will talk about
the complex ties between American publishing giant Henry Luce and the
charismatic Chinese leaders Madame and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The
discussion will be moderated by Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the
Center on US-China Relations.
(via http://www.asiasociety.org/)
(via http://www.asiasociety.org/)
New York Asian Film Festival at Lincoln Society of Film Center (Walter Reade Theater)
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June 30, 2010
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Date: June 25 to July 8, 2010
Location: Walter Reade Theater, 165W 65th Street, New York
The
New York Asian Film Festival is held at the Walter Reade from June 25 to July
8. The festival presents the latest and greatest pop masterpieces
including blockbusters from Thailand to Taiwan, romantic comedies from China,
mutant battle girls from Japan, kung fu epics from Hong Kong and tourist-eating
giant pig movies from Korea.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Come Together: Arts in the Asian American Movement with Corky Lee, Tomie Arai, Jack Tchen, and Karen Tei Yamashita
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Arts in the Yellow Power Moment!
Saturday, June 19, 2010, 2-4PM
Come hear one of the foremost Asian American novelists of her generation and the artist-activists who defined what it means for all of us to be Asian American. This special symposium features key activists Corky Lee, Tomie Arai, and Jack Tchen alongside Karen Tei Yamashita, whose new novel, I-Hotel, is destined to be a future classic of Asian American literature.
(Profile of Tomie Arai & Corky)
Saturday, June 19, 2010, 2-4PM
Come hear one of the foremost Asian American novelists of her generation and the artist-activists who defined what it means for all of us to be Asian American. This special symposium features key activists Corky Lee, Tomie Arai, and Jack Tchen alongside Karen Tei Yamashita, whose new novel, I-Hotel, is destined to be a future classic of Asian American literature.
(Profile of Tomie Arai & Corky)
Tomie Arai is an activist, artist, philosopher, poet, historian,
printmaker, instillation artist, and public artist who has worked
collaboratively with community groups for over thirty years. She has
realized numerous commissions, including ones from the Cambridge Arts
Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art
Program, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the recipient
of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Printmaking, a
1995 Joan Mitchell Visual Arts Grant, a 1997 Mid Atlantic Arts
Foundation Visual Artist Residency, and a 1994 NEA Visual Arts
Fellowship. Arai's work explores the relationship of art to history and
the role that memory plays in retelling a collective past. Some of her
recent works include a series of constructions that incorporate
silk-screened photographs addressing issues of identity, displacement,
and acculturation. She is married to Legan Wong, has two children and
is a grandmother.
Corky Lee, known as the "undisputed unofficial Asian American
Photographer Laureate," is a self-taught photographer, has been
documenting Asian and Pacific American community for over 30 years. His
work, which has been described as "only a small attempt to rectify
omissions in our history text books," has appeared in Time magazine, the New York Times, The Village Voice, Associated Press, The Villager and Downtown Express. In an interview in AsianWeek
Lee commented: "I'd like to think that every time I take my camera out
of my bag, it's like drawing a sword to combat indifference, injustice
and discrimination, trying to get rid of stereotypes."
Event will be held at The Asian American Writers' Workshop, 110-112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor, Between 6th and 7th Avenues, New York, NY. Free and open to the public.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
"All in My Mind" - Panel Talk with Artists and Neuroscientists"
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June 08, 2010
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"All in My Mind" - Panel Talk with Artists and Neuroscientists
Day & Time: Tuesday, June 22 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Central Booking Gallery, 111 Front Street, Gallery 210, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
Participating Artists: Brian Alves, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Travis Childers, Barbara Confino, Elena Costelian, Thorsten Dennerline, Mary Hambleton, Nene Humphrey, Eva Lee, Linda Plotkin, Barbara Rosenthal, Paul Tecklenberg, Claire Watkins
All in My Mind is an informal talk about the brain and the connections between neuroscience and art. Three artists in the exhibition and two neuroscientists present their work and discuss what is in their minds when they do it. LeDoux, a neuroscientist, promises to perform a few songs he has written about mind and brain. This talk accompanies the Central Booking Gallery's current exhibition, "Anatomical/Microbial/Microcosms."
(via Central Booking Gallery)
(image via Supermammal)
Day & Time: Tuesday, June 22 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: Central Booking Gallery, 111 Front Street, Gallery 210, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
Participating Artists: Brian Alves, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, Travis Childers, Barbara Confino, Elena Costelian, Thorsten Dennerline, Mary Hambleton, Nene Humphrey, Eva Lee, Linda Plotkin, Barbara Rosenthal, Paul Tecklenberg, Claire Watkins
All in My Mind is an informal talk about the brain and the connections between neuroscience and art. Three artists in the exhibition and two neuroscientists present their work and discuss what is in their minds when they do it. LeDoux, a neuroscientist, promises to perform a few songs he has written about mind and brain. This talk accompanies the Central Booking Gallery's current exhibition, "Anatomical/Microbial/Microcosms."
(via Central Booking Gallery)
(image via Supermammal)
Thursday, June 3, 2010
CHINA: JUNE 4 1989 - Online Exhibition
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June 03, 2010
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Remember Tiannamen Massacre Protest Of 1989
On June 5, 1989, in response to the massacre of the students in
Tiananmen Square, the Asian American Arts Centre in NY initiated a year
long exhibition that eventually brought over 300 artists to participate
to draw attention to this historic tragedy. After the exhibit traveled
to several sites over the next few years and the calls to have it and
the informative materials that accompanied it died away, the exhibition
and the art work that it encompassed lay dormant. Now, on the occasion
of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Student Movement
this exhibition is being revised with this online presence for all to
see. Much has passed and China may no longer be the China that it was.
For this exhibition, this is not the issue. Tiananmen Square, however,
must not be forgotten. At the very least, as a few of the art works
claim, forgetting must be resisted. So many artists came forward to
give selflessly to this cause, creating innumerable memorable images.
Together with the media event this historic moment became, and the
photographic record that became metaphors in themselves, these art
works manifest the public response, the outcry and passion that was
felt around the world. If there is any message of these art works to be
remembered, like the image of that sole resistor who stood before a
line of tanks stopping them in their tracks, it is to stand up for what
you believe.
Remember Tiananmen Square...
Remember Tiananmen Square...
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Experience + Exchange: A Conversation Between Community Champions
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(image by Simon Birtall)
Date: Wednesday, May 19th
Time: 7pm Doors Open | 7:30pm Program Begins
Location: Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), 215 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013
Time: 7pm Doors Open | 7:30pm Program Begins
Location: Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), 215 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013
Reflect for a moment about Chinatown.
What images are evoked? What emotions?
Is the community featured prominently in any scenes from your past? Does it play a role in your life today? How does it fit into your plans for the future? Chances are, Chinatown means something a little different to every one of us and, regardless of our personal involvement with Chinatown, it is hard to deny the neighborhood's connection with the Chinese-American ethos.
It is therefore worth taking pause to identify our relationship with this neighborhood and further ask ourselves: What should our connection to Chinatown be? And what, if anything, does Chinatown need from us?
The
Young Professionals program at MOCA has invited two individuals who
have immersed their lives' work in thinking and working through these
questions - Tomie Arai, a public artist whose work fundamentally draws on and incorporates its community context, and Thomas Yu,
the Director of Housing Development at Asian Americans for Equality
(AAFE) and the Executive Director of Downtown Manhattan Community
Development Corporation (DMCDC).
Admission: $10 suggested; Free for MOCA members!
Please RSVP by May 17th to Jenny Wong at jwong@mocanyc.org, and include any questions you'd like to ask our panelists!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Wing Tek Lum Reading In New York
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May 01, 2010
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Wing Tek Lum, one of our great funder will be reciting poetry from his manuscript on the Nanjing Massacre at Asian American Writers Workshop on Friday, May 7th, at 7pm.
Asian American Writers Workshop
6th Floor, 110 -112 West 27th Street (6th and 7th)
Apart of being one of our funder, Wing Tek Lum is the author of Expounding the Doubtful Points, a collection of poetry by the 1970 Discovery Award winner speaks of the author's Chinese American heritage: his ancestors in China, his family in Hawaii, and forging a Chinese American identity. He also speaks of racial discrimination and the obscenity of ethnic stereotypes with astute and unforgiving clarity.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
America's Chinatown Voices: Exhibition & Silent Auction
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April 14, 2010
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APRIL 23 - MAY 9, 2010
ARTISTS: Avani Patel & Nathalie Pham
VIEW PANELS HERE TO AUCTION
Bidding at Opening Reception April 22, 6-8pm
Closing Silent Auction & Mother's Day Party: Sunday, May 9th, 4pm-7pm
LOCATION: Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural (map)
Panels/artworks by the community from the outdoor installation "America's Chinatown Voices" at Columbus Park
About 80 - 90 red panels were painted by community people, children, artists & other New Yorkers from the previous installation "America's Chinatown Voices" will be mounted at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. There will be a night where the panels will be auction.
( Press Release )
ARTISTS: Avani Patel & Nathalie Pham
VIEW PANELS HERE TO AUCTION
Bidding at Opening Reception April 22, 6-8pm
Closing Silent Auction & Mother's Day Party: Sunday, May 9th, 4pm-7pm
LOCATION: Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural (map)
Panels/artworks by the community from the outdoor installation "America's Chinatown Voices" at Columbus Park
About 80 - 90 red panels were painted by community people, children, artists & other New Yorkers from the previous installation "America's Chinatown Voices" will be mounted at Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center. There will be a night where the panels will be auction.
( Press Release )
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
CAPA Heritage Festival this Sunday in Union Square Park!
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April 13, 2010
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THE 31TH ANNUAL ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL
Date: Sunday May 2 2010, from 12pm - 6pm
Venue: Union Square Park
East 14th Street, between Broadway & Park Ave.
Festival Admission: FREE!
Website: A/P/A Heritage Festival
Featuring a variety of Folk artists from different backgrounds, five
traditional artists/crafts people will be giving hands on
demonstrations. As for this year, the artists joining Asian American
Arts Centre are:
Karen Ahn: Korean Maedeup (Knotting)
Kavita Vyas: Mehandi artist
Ming Liang Lu: Master paper cutter of portraits
Jampa Youden : A Tibetan folk singer who also does traditional jewelry design.
Rose Sigal Ibsen : Sumi-e calligrapher
Ye Xun : Dough figurine master artist
Audiences will have the opportunity to interact with skilled folk
artists who demonstrate their crafts and will have the opportunity to
ask questions, make requests and the chance to learn and delight in the
magic of a traditional craft! Go here to read more about our folk
artists. This is an ideal event for families. The music, art and performances
will delight both old and young alike. See you there this weekend!
Monday, April 12, 2010
ART SLAM 2010: Calling For Submission
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April 12, 2010
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For the past several years, the Asian American Arts Centre has held a series of slide slams, allowing new, young, or emerging artists the opportunity to present and talk about their work, meet and network with each other as well as with more established artists and critics/curators. Last year, the Centre hosted three slide slams, showcasing the work of fifteen artists working in various media.
ArtSlam will mount two ArtSlams this summer.
ArtSlam is an opportunity for artists to share their work with peers, general audience and art professionals in an open forum for critical exchange. This presentation can be done in slides or digital format.
We are inviting all artists of Asian and Asian-American descent as well as those who have been significantly influenced by Asia to submit their work for participation. (go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/13504173@N02/ to see picture of the past ArtSlams )
If you are interested in participating, please send us:
•6-10 images of your work (CD with images in jpg. format, slides or photographs are fine)
•1 page artist statement
•Abbreviated artist statement (2-3 lines) for the program
•Artist resume
•Completed information form (see http://artspiral.org/archive_submission.html)
Send all submission materials to:
Email: aaacinfo@artspiral.org
Or mail to: Asian American Arts Centre
111 Norfolk St., Ground Flr.
New York, NY 10002
ATTN: ArtSlam 2010
ArtSlam will mount two ArtSlams this summer.
ArtSlam is an opportunity for artists to share their work with peers, general audience and art professionals in an open forum for critical exchange. This presentation can be done in slides or digital format.
We are inviting all artists of Asian and Asian-American descent as well as those who have been significantly influenced by Asia to submit their work for participation. (go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/13504173@N02/ to see picture of the past ArtSlams )
If you are interested in participating, please send us:
•6-10 images of your work (CD with images in jpg. format, slides or photographs are fine)
•1 page artist statement
•Abbreviated artist statement (2-3 lines) for the program
•Artist resume
•Completed information form (see http://artspiral.org/archive_submission.html)
Send all submission materials to:
Email: aaacinfo@artspiral.org
Or mail to: Asian American Arts Centre
111 Norfolk St., Ground Flr.
New York, NY 10002
ATTN: ArtSlam 2010
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Thunderstorm!
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April 06, 2010
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Princeton Chinese Theatre proudly presents:
its first production in New York: “Thunderstorm” (雷雨)
What: Cao Yu’s (曹禺) “Thunderstorm” (雷雨)
When: April 25, 2010 8 pm
Where: The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
To book tickets: Reserve online here!
Or email ctheatre@princeton.edu
Or contact the Kaye Playhouse Box Office at (212) 650-3888
Thunderstorm
Thunderstorm, a milestone in Chinese modern theatre and the most popular dramatic work of Cao Yu, depicts the psychological and emotional turmoil and conflicts that two families of drastically different social statuses must endure as they share an unspeakable secret. Thunderstorm recounts the tragic tale of the prosperous Zhou family and the unfortunate Lu family, who are closely intertwined within a web of convoluted relationships, lies and betrayals. Compelling, unpredictable and heart-wrenching, PCT’s adaptation of this play from paper to stage maintains the essence of Cao Yu’s original masterpiece whilst laying bare the beautiful, the hopeful and the dark sides of human nature for all to see.
To learn more about the show, please go to http://www.princeton.edu/~ctheatre/en/en_main.html
its first production in New York: “Thunderstorm” (雷雨)
What: Cao Yu’s (曹禺) “Thunderstorm” (雷雨)
When: April 25, 2010 8 pm
Where: The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
To book tickets: Reserve online here!
Or email ctheatre@princeton.edu
Or contact the Kaye Playhouse Box Office at (212) 650-3888
Thunderstorm
Thunderstorm, a milestone in Chinese modern theatre and the most popular dramatic work of Cao Yu, depicts the psychological and emotional turmoil and conflicts that two families of drastically different social statuses must endure as they share an unspeakable secret. Thunderstorm recounts the tragic tale of the prosperous Zhou family and the unfortunate Lu family, who are closely intertwined within a web of convoluted relationships, lies and betrayals. Compelling, unpredictable and heart-wrenching, PCT’s adaptation of this play from paper to stage maintains the essence of Cao Yu’s original masterpiece whilst laying bare the beautiful, the hopeful and the dark sides of human nature for all to see.
To learn more about the show, please go to http://www.princeton.edu/~ctheatre/en/en_main.html
Out Of The Archive: PROCESS & PROGRESS Catalog
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April 06, 2010
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Out Of The Archive: PROCESS & PROGRESS
CATALOG
ISBN#: 0-974330221
Artists: Tomie Arai, John Yoyogi Fortes, Swati Khurana, Albert Chong.
Writers: Karen Su, Karlyn Koh, Jan Christian Bernabe, Sarita Echavez See & Midori Yoshimoto
Monday, March 22, 2010
7 Continents 9 Lives: Intersecting Identities and Communities
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March 22, 2010
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Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU presents 7 Continents 9 Lives: Intersecting Identities and Communities
A panel discussion on the work of poet activist Fay Chiang
Wednesday, Mar 24th, 6PM - 8PM
A/P/A Institute at NYU, 41-51 East 11th Street, 7th Floor Gallery
Featured speakers and readings by:Fay Chiang. Thulani Davis, NYU, Alana Ruben Free, Patricia Spears Jones, Renato Rosaldo, NYU, Jack Tchen, NYU. Moderated by Bob Holman, Publisher Bowery Books
Join A/P/A Institute at NYU for a discussion with scholars and writers to celebrate and analyze this important New York poet’s new collection of poems, 7 Continents 9 Lives, published by Bowery Books. Fay Chiang has long been part of the early ‘70s New York poetry scene and continues to influence a generation of young writers, slam poets, and activists.
A writer, artist and community/cultural organizer living and working in Chinatown and the Lower East Side of New York City for the past four decades, Chiang writes from her experiences as a woman of color of the working class. Her complex and layered poetry stem from a belief that culture is a psychological weapon to reclaim our past, define our present, and to envision possibilities for our future; that the development of culture is an integral part of progressive social change and social justice movements.
For more information go to this link
A panel discussion on the work of poet activist Fay Chiang
Wednesday, Mar 24th, 6PM - 8PM
A/P/A Institute at NYU, 41-51 East 11th Street, 7th Floor Gallery
Featured speakers and readings by:Fay Chiang. Thulani Davis, NYU, Alana Ruben Free, Patricia Spears Jones, Renato Rosaldo, NYU, Jack Tchen, NYU. Moderated by Bob Holman, Publisher Bowery Books
Join A/P/A Institute at NYU for a discussion with scholars and writers to celebrate and analyze this important New York poet’s new collection of poems, 7 Continents 9 Lives, published by Bowery Books. Fay Chiang has long been part of the early ‘70s New York poetry scene and continues to influence a generation of young writers, slam poets, and activists.
A writer, artist and community/cultural organizer living and working in Chinatown and the Lower East Side of New York City for the past four decades, Chiang writes from her experiences as a woman of color of the working class. Her complex and layered poetry stem from a belief that culture is a psychological weapon to reclaim our past, define our present, and to envision possibilities for our future; that the development of culture is an integral part of progressive social change and social justice movements.
For more information go to this link
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Four Asian artists nominated for NYC PULSE Awards
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March 10, 2010
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EMERGING ASIAN ARTISTS – ART PRIZES
Four Asian artists were nominated for Pulse Awards at the PULSE art fair which took place in New York City and Miami between 4-7 March 2010: Shun Duk Kang from Korea, Hiroshige Furuhaka from Japan, Farsad Labbauf from Iran andSopheap Pich from Cambodia.
Though none of these four artists won either the PULSE award or the People’s Choice award, the fair gave them extensive exposure (they each won their own booths) and point to their status as emerging names in the global scene.
Shin Duk Kang, Heaven and Earth, 2008
Shin Duk Kang, a South Korean artist, is represented by Seoul’s Galerie Pici. She creates installation art that reflect the limits of her material while evoking nature in her work. She also makes prints, which utilize geometric forms to continue exploring the subject of nature.
Hiroshige Fukuhara, The Night Became Starless, 2008
Ai Kowada Gallery 9 represents Hiroshige Fukuhara, who specialises in drawings with graphite and black gesso on wood. Viewers are drawn to the simplicity of his works, as well as the subtle addition of graphite, which makes his black-on-black drawings shimmer from certain angles. Before PULSE, he was featured in PS1’s 2001 show “BUZZ CLUB: News from Japan.”
Farsad Labbauf, Joseph, 2007
Iranian artist Farsad Labbauf combines figurative painting with Iranian calligraphy to create a unified image, regardless of the content of the words or pictures within that image. He refers to his Persian heritage as his inspiration, especially its carpet-making tradition: that unrelated elements were able to come together in linear patterns to create a whole. He concludes that his work is “often an attempt for the union of the internal.”
Sopheap Pich, Cycle, 2005
Sopheap Pich is a Cambodian artist represented by Tyler Rollins Fine Art of New York. His work mostly consists of sculptures of bamboo and rattan that evoke both biomorphic figures and his childhood during the Khmer Rogue period. He has become a major figure in the Cambodian contemporary art scene.
More at Art Radar Journal.
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