This week: Lots and lots of films, including Feng Xiaogang’s government-delayed Youth, documentaries selected by Ai Weiwei, and classics such as In the Mood for Love (preceded by an interpretation by artist...
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This week: David Henry Hwang visits MOCA and, with Julie Taymor, Asia Society; a symposium about photography and media art in the 1990s China; a concert of new classical competitions;...
I always find it fitting that, on the cusp of my high school graduation, I discovered the play M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang. Its story of an affair between...
This week: Films about plastic waste, writers jailed during the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese American who received one of the first Academy Awards in 1942 for a film that is...
Last week, Lower East Side art house cinema Metrograph began the series Imaginary Chinatown which surveys the ways Hollywood has used Chinatowns as a setting. As the center for immigrant communities, Chinatowns...
Lots this week: Two versions of the Peking opera Farewell My Concubine; a talk about a Chinese artist in Jazz Age France; new noir Chinese crime films; Wong Kar-wai’s choreographer’s homage to...
This week: Experimental video and sound performance that contemplates the Borough of Queens; a production of a Chinese classic; a lecture about China’s most important historian (see below for ticket...
Things start to pick up after Labor Day, and we’re looking forward to all the happenings in fall. We ease into the upcoming season this week with: A talk about...
This week: A photography exhibition that reveals the political and social movements in Taiwan; a movie about Bruce Lee; and a summer art party with the curators and artists of...
Following the exciting inaugural Storefront 店面 Residency in which artist Melissa Liu engaged the Asian diasporic communities through oral history workshops, open mic storytelling, talks, handcrafted silkscreened red envelopes, and a...