Exhibition - LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art
2026-02-10 - 2026-05-14 | Queens College – Godwin-Ternbach Museum, 65-30 Kissena Blvd - 405 Klapper Hall, Flushing, NY, 11365
LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art explores the intersection of art and sports through the work of contemporary Asian and Asian American artists. While often considered distinct fields, this exhibition highlights how sport and artistic expression serve as interconnected arenas. Featuring artists and collectives across a wide range of artistic media, LEGENDS examines how artists of Asian descent engage with the shared language of art and sport to reflect identity, nationalism, the body, and performance.
The first exhibition to specifically focus on the relationship between art and sports within contemporary Asian and Asian American art, LEGENDS will debut works by The Chinatown Basketball Club, Kaarina Chu Mackenzie, and Astria Suparak.

The Grandmaster: Tony Leung
2026-04-29 - 2026-05-07 | Film at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th Street, New York, NY, 10023
Marking his first return to FLC in more than 25 years, this career-spanning retrospective gives audiences the chance to rediscover, on the big screen, why the world continues to fall for Tony Leung time and time again.

2026 Graduate Conference of Inter-Asian Perspectives Work Group: When is Asia Modern? Negotiating Borders of Modernisms
2026-05-01 09:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
Asian modern art has long been framed through a Western art-historical chronology, locating its “beginning” in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century—precisely the moment of intensified encounters with the West and the imposition of Eurocentric models of modernity onto Asia. Recent scholarship across the humanities has begun to unsettle this timeline: some push the chronology backward to examine early articulations of Asian modernity in mercantile networks and imperial formations; others push it forward to engage shared global histories of the post, i.e., postcolonial, post-imperial, post-socialist. To propose an alternative approach to thinking about Asia Modern, we ask: how do Asian modernisms emerge through the negotiation of borders? Here, borders may be understood as Cartographic Borders—those drawn and redrawn in nation-building, imperial expansion, or decolonization; Cultural Borders—those that define, delimit, or delegitimize certain formations of groups, ideas, practices, etc.; and/or Aesthetic Borders—the negotiations of style, medium, and form that highlight, contest, or blur distinctions and affinities within and across artistic traditions. Rather than recasting the Euro-American centers as the primary axis through which these borders are negotiated, we invite papers that consider intra-Asian encounters as sites of emerging Asian modernisms. By examining how these different borders are made, crossed, and reconfigured, we collectively explore alternative imaginaries of the Asia Modern.

The Cultural Keepers: Tracing the Historical Footsteps of Vietnamese Dual Language Bilingual Education Programs in the U.S.
2026-05-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Asian American / Asian Research Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, Suite 1000, New York, 10036, United States
Khánh Lê and Alisha Nguyen will present on their research exploring the history, development, and impact of Vietnamese dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs in five U.S. states with significant Vietnamese populations.

SPRING CONCERT 2026 JINHO HONG
2026-05-01 18:30 - 20:30 | Korean Cultural Center NY, 122 E 32nd St, New York, NY, 10016
Recognized for his classical excellence and as the winner of Superband, a popular Korean television music competition, Jinho Hong has captivated audiences with both technical mastery and emotional depth.
Blending classical tradition with contemporary sensibilities, his performance expands the expressive possibilities of the cello and connects deeply with today’s audiences.
Join us for an evening of compelling artistry at the Korean Cultural Center New York.

Oasis in the Great Desert: A Portrait of Wong Chin Foo
2026-05-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre Street, New York, NY, 10013
To kick off AANHPI Heritage Month, the Museum of Chinese in America is proud to present a special program honoring Wong Chin Foo and his enduring legacy. The evening will open with special remarks by Frank Wu, President of Queens College, followed by a theatrical portrait by Richard Chang, who will bring Wong to life through a speech delivered in Chinatown on May 1, 1892—just days before Congress passed the Geary Act.
A panel discussion, led by MOCA Co-Founder and historian Jack Tchen, will explore Wong’s impact as an activist and as the editor of the first Chinese-language newspaper in the United States, Chinese American (美華新報). The conversation will also examine the evolution of AANHPI journalism and its role in shaping our sociopolitical landscape, offering a contemporary lens on Wong’s lasting influence.

From Refugee Roots to the Lao Kitchen
2026-05-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Museum of Food and Drink, 62 Bayard Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11222
Join MOFAD for an evening celebrating Lao food, culture, and history as we host Saeng Douangdara, founder of Saeng’s Kitchen and author of The Lao Kitchen. Saeng will be in conversation with Jujubee, a Lao American drag queen, reality television personality, and recording artist. Together, they will explore the personal journey behind the book, the resilience rooted in Lao refugee stories, and how food can be a joyful expression of one’s truest self.

Beyond Empire: Radical Possibility & Genre Fiction
2026-05-01 20:30 - 21:45 | NYU Global Center – C95 Lecture Hall, 238 Thompson St, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Join us as we welcome writers of color working across the genres of science fiction, horror, and speculative fiction as they speak to the ways they use the narrative archetypes inherent in their genres to confront the lasting, real-world effects of racism, segregation, colonialism, and imperialism.
With Silvia Park, whose debut novel Luminous considers a near-future unified Korea; Samrat Upadhyay, whose epic dystopian novel Darkmotherland is set amidst political and natural upheaval in Nepal; Quan Barry, whose literary horror novel The Unveiling confronts America’s racial legacy; and Rivers Solomon, whose Model Home explodes the haunted house story to discuss the history of American segregation. Moderating this all-star panel is critic and author of House of Bone & Rain, Gabino Iglesias.
