Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969-2001), an expansive survey of rarely-seen artwork and archival material by artists that constitute and exceed “Asian American,” a label denoting a cultural and national identity invented in 1968.
The program, supported by the Thomas Chen Family/Crystal Windows Endowment, aims to foster the development of Asian contemporary art and offers two artists an opportunity to contribute to the college’s academic and cultural environment.
Asian Americans are the fastest growing group in the United States and include approximately 50 distinct ethnic groups, but their stories and experiences have often been sidelined or stereotyped. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects offers a vital window into the triumphs and tragedies, strength and ingenuity, and traditions and cultural identities of these communities.
Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute for a guided gallery tour of “C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction,” led by Margaret Liu Clinton. C. C. Wang is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese art, a reputation that often overshadows his own art.
UnHomeless NYC (Kingsborough Art Museum, online and off-site Oct. 10, 2021 – Apr 14, 2022/in-person exhibition Mar 3 – Apr 14, 2022) is a group exhibition of artists utilizing participation, activism, and pedagogy as their media to consider and better understand New York City’s housing crisis, and to think about our future as the city emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic.
IN 1962, I SKETCHED at the Western Suburbs Zoo in Beijing and saw two North American bison for the first time. Bison are huge in size, brown and black, and move slowly in a space that is not much larger than their bodies. They are incompatible with the zoo, an artificial environment. When sketching, … Read more