This week: a celebration of Taiwanese food and culture at Grand Central Terminal; a dumpling festival in Chinatown; talks about religion in modern day Taiwan, female leadership with the head...
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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, everybody! This week: The Modern Sky Festival; a meet and greet with singer Su Yang; Chinese and Taiwanese artists at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair 2016;...
Known for its normcore style, Japanese brand MUJI exudes Zen purity—the “intrinsic appeal of an object through rationalization and meticulous elimination of excess.” Its name (which can be translated to “brandless”) and advertising...
Gazing at Meng Du’s works transports us to a fairyland. With rich picturesque details, the artist constructs scenes that only exist in fanciful tales. A little girl floats on a...
This week: The beginning of the Asian American International Film Festival; Nanfu Wang’s Hooligan Sparrow begins its theatrical release and the director joins a Q&A; Wang Li and Wu Wei’s Jew’s harp...
This week: Anthology Film Archives screens a documentary by Jia Zhangke and a few of his films; a musical play by Angel Lam evokes the glamour and nostalgia of a...
This week: Puppets from Taiwan; Chinese emperors; Metrograph shows two critically-acclaimed films — one classic and the other recent; a documentary about artist Mu Xin; performance art pieces by two...
In January 2016, Zhangbolong Liu became an apprentice at Cloud Gallery, a framing shop in Tribeca (full disclosure: his connection to the framing shop was through me). After graduating from...
Neither satisfied nor happy with the over-emphasis on realistic painting techniques at China’s traditional art academies, Huo Dongze (霍东泽), like many young Chinese artists, left the comfort of China for a new...
A large photographic print on faux suede depicting photographer Pixy Yijun Liao and her boyfriend Moro is the highlight of a wall in Flower Gallery’s Chelsea location. Standing in a...