Non AAARI Events
Events for Nov/06/2026
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
Artists Space presents “Multiple Offerings”, the first retrospective in twenty-five years dedicated to the groundbreaking work of the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She produced an expansive range of works comprising performances for film and video, installation, photography, artist’s books (including her genre-defying book Dictée from 1982), and works on paper, which will fill Artists ... Read more
Exhibition – Art of Manga
Art of Manga is the first major exhibition in the Americas to explore manga—Japanese comics and graphic novels—as an art form. Marking its East Coast debut, the Brooklyn Museum’s presentation is packed with more than 600 drawings that showcase manga’s immersive power and social impact. Don’t miss this rare opportunity for US audiences to encounter ... Read more
King of the Yees, a play by Lauren Yee
For nearly twenty years, Larry Yee has been the heart and soul of the Yee Fung Toy Family Association, a fraternal organization in San Francisco’s iconic Chinatown. But to his daughter Lauren, a playwright living in New York, the association is an obsolete relic of a vanishing world. When Larry suddenly disappears, Lauren sets off on a ... Read more
Exhibition – Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong
Displaying 47 photographs spanning nearly 20 years of Vuong’s photography, Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuongopens in a new tab is his first visual arts exhibition in New York City. This installation presents Vuong’s printed and framed photography works, many of which have never been exhibited before. Through the camera lens gaze, Vuong’s images animate Sống, ... Read more
“Only You” in a Girl from Zanzibar: The 1980s, Neoliberalism, and the Soundtrack of Protest
The 1980s: Thatcherism, neoliberalism, privatization, and union strikes. If these are the British legacy of that period, its soundtrack is synthpop. For this presentation, R. Benedito Ferrão, the 2026-2027 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor, “listens” to a pivotal scene in Roger King’s continent-spanning novel A Girl from Zanzibar (2001), hearing in it Yazoo’s “Only You” ... Read more