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;...
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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...
This week: Documentary films curated by Ai Weiwei and director Wang Fen that offer glimpses of contemporary China; a talk about obesity amongst Asian Americans; Min Xiao-Fen joins a tribute...
This week, Asia Contemporary Art Week’s Field Meeting and THINKING PROJECTS exhibition at Klein Sun Gallery and additional exhibitions done in partnership with Creative China Festival at Sundaram Tagore Gallery...
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...
I arrived late for the summer open house at the Bronx Museum, when security guards had already started to urge people out. Breaking through the embrace of a lively crowd...
Make time on your calendar for this week’s cornucopia of events: Xu Bing’s directorial debut and Zhao Tou at the New York Film Festival; Yang Jiechang and Lin Tianmiao visit...
This week: Films from Taiwan that examine life after martial law; Modern Sky Festival; an Asian American mini film festival; a film not about Buddhism, but a Buddhist film; new...
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...