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Asian American Arts Centre

Asian American Arts Centre brings cultural events in contemporary visual art to the general public. It aims for creative vitality by engaging other communities and concerns in a creative encounter. With roots in Basement Workshop and founded in 1974 as a not-for-profit Pan-Asian community arts organization, the Arts Centre has come to see the arts in their historical, and spiritual relationship to

diverse neighborhoods. Address:
111 Norfolk Street, New York NY 10002

Tel: 212.233.2154 | Office Hours: M-F 1230pm-630pm

Email: [email protected]

Eleanor Yung: I choreographed a 3 min piece in this film. I play grandmother, a dancing one! 😹, with some taichi moves! ...
12/04/2022
Connor Sen Warnick on Instagram: "Our production is successfully entering its final stretch. We’ve been shooting for the past three weeks and, though it certainly has not always been easy, we have continued to persevere and make the most of all...

Eleanor Yung: I choreographed a 3 min piece in this film. I play grandmother, a dancing one! 😹, with some taichi moves! 🙂
Here’s the trailer. Enjoy!

Connor Sen Warnick shared a post on Instagram: "Our production is successfully entering its final stretch. We’ve been shooting for the past three weeks and, though it certainly has not always been easy, we have continued to persevere and make the most of all of our days. Our incomparable cast and ...

Kit Yin will make a brief intro to her film.
11/26/2022

Kit Yin will make a brief intro to her film.

10/27/2022
https://asamnews.com/2022/09/30/refugee-hope-liberty-freedom-chinatown/?fbclid=IwAR07eS5LKII22wqOQhZSKDXtIaVJpOVYu6RBv2Q...
10/01/2022
NY Chinatown Welcomes Little Amal, a symbol of hope – AsAmNews

https://asamnews.com/2022/09/30/refugee-hope-liberty-freedom-chinatown/?fbclid=IwAR07eS5LKII22wqOQhZSKDXtIaVJpOVYu6RBv2Qwt6c_j92Im9S02IFPvHQ
May Chen of the Lower East Side told AsAmNews, “I’m very happy living in and around Chinatown to welcome Little Amal as a symbol of hope and sanctuary for immigrants and refugees. I think in Chinatown, everybody has a story in their family about the hardships they face coming to America, struggling and surviving. Amir Nizar Zuabi, the Artistic Director in an interview with CNN said, “In New York, we are engaging with the five boroughs creating fifty-five events in the city, where communities can meet Little Amal and show her their welcome,
Refugee children, unaccompanied minors and immigrant children are invisible in our society and giving them visibility was a big part of this project. So making her as big as we could technically was what we wanted to create. It was important for us that she is not a mechanical thing. She is operated by people, she’s nimble and she’s quick and you can see her breathing,” said Zuabi.

Chinatown residents relate to a 12-foot puppet representing the story of a 10-year-old refugee and her story of hope

09/23/2022

I used to try to be Good.
Good was my go-to in everything.

But Good got me nowhere.
Not like Truth.
Truth,
she tore me to shreds,
devoured me whole and spat me out shaking and new.

Truth keeps a box of matches in my pocket.
While Good made me afraid of transformative fire.

Truth keeps me real,
even if it makes everyone in the room uncomfortable.

And Truth,
unlike Good,
doesn't let me bow down to anything.

Truth doesn't let me give in to bullying, misguidance and fear-based criticism
or cowardice.

Truth is a queen and a humanitarian,
while Good,
she's a silent,
scared little sheep.

Truth knows that Good dulls my already radiant, fierce and loving soul.
Good showed me how to hide my wings,
my words and angel vision.

Truth taught me to be brave.
Truth taught me how to respect myself.
Truth allows me to hold impenetrable space for any story,
but first and foremost,
for my own.

And Truth,
well,
she changes everything,
and friend,
she's coming for you, too

Tanya Markul ❤️

Art by John Singer Sargent

from Anna Kuo
09/18/2022

from Anna Kuo

09/16/2022

A 4852 Year Old Located Ancient Mountain Aras Cypress At Tandooreh National Park, Iran

https://news.artnet.com/market/henry-street-scene-2174037 Henry Street Is New York’s New Affordable, Experimental Art Hu...
09/16/2022
Henry Street Is New York's New Affordable, Experimental Art Hub. But Its Dealers Wonder How Long the Good Times Can Last | Artnet News

https://news.artnet.com/market/henry-street-scene-2174037
Henry Street Is New York’s New Affordable, Experimental Art Hub. But Its Dealers Wonder How Long the Good Times Can Last
A cluster of galleries have been enjoying low rent from multi-year leases signed in 2020. What happens when those expire?

A cluster of galleries have been enjoying low rent from leases signed in 2020. What happens when those expire?

Join us for a project presentation from one of our esteemed 2022 Equity In Action Grant recipients!Asian American Arts C...
09/13/2022
Equity in Action Recipient Presentation: Asian American Arts Centre and Pratt Institute’s Semantic Lab | Metropolitan New York Library Council

Join us for a project presentation from one of our esteemed 2022 Equity In Action Grant recipients!
Asian American Arts Centre in New York City (AAAC) and Pratt Institute’s Semantic Lab worked together to ensure continued online access to resources documenting AAAC’s work. The project team digitized, described through Wikidata records, and contributed AAAC’s full collection of approximately one hundred exhibition flyers to the open repository Wikimedia Commons.

Asian American Arts Centre in New York City (AAAC) and Pratt Institute’s Semantic Lab worked together to ensure continued online access to resources documenting AAAC’s work. The project team digitized, described through Wikidata records, and contributed AAAC’s full collection of approximately ...

https://nextcity.org/features/nyc-chinatowns-cultural-power-steps-out-of-basements-into-the-mainstreamA great article fr...
08/23/2022
In New York, Chinatown’s Cultural Power Steps Out of the Basements and Into the Mainstream

https://nextcity.org/features/nyc-chinatowns-cultural-power-steps-out-of-basements-into-the-mainstream
A great article from January this year on our Chinatown arts scene, worth reposting

After decades of underground organizing for cultural expression and political agency, establishment funding is flooding the neighborhood. But with millions tied to the city’s borough-based jails plan, is the bankroll worth the price?

Photos from L' Âme Du Monde's post
08/19/2022

Photos from L' Âme Du Monde's post

Making Space: Do Ho Suh’s Contemporary Sewing and Embroidery
07/23/2022
Making Space: Do Ho Suh’s Contemporary Sewing and Embroidery

Making Space: Do Ho Suh’s Contemporary Sewing and Embroidery

Light, airy and weightless, Korean-born contemporary artist Do Ho Suh’s ephemeral architectural constructs are made from great swathes of sheer fabric and thread. He reconstructs the many different places he has lived around the world, recreating distinctive features, rooms and even staircases of ...

Well Worth reading.
07/10/2022

Well Worth reading.

beautiful clarity of music
06/15/2022
Wu Man: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

beautiful clarity of music

Watch the world's reigning p**a virtuoso play ancient music from her Chinese homeland in the NPR Music offices. When her fingers start to fly, Wu Man can cre...

05/25/2022

This tintype, a photograph made on metal, once belonged to Detroiter Jackie Napoleon Wilson who collected hundreds of photographs of African Americans from 1845 to 1865. Wilson noted that this photograph, "is highly unusual, no matter what the race [and] it was rare to see soldiers with a wife or woman." He also commented that such photographs “had the power to change not only how whites felt about blacks, but [also]…how blacks felt about themselves.”

📷 In celebration of National Photography Month, we are sharing photographs from our archives that speak to the creativity and diversity of our permanent collection.


American, Soldier and Companion, between 1861 and 1865, tintype with brass mat and leather case. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, DeRoy Photographic Acquisition Endowment Fund and Coville Photographic Fund, 2001.133.

05/03/2022

ICYMI Black Love was on full display at last night's Met Gala! Congrats to our Founder and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner Laurie Cumbo and Bobby Digi Olisa who got engaged right on the red carpet! Black Love wins ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾

Why Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars is beside the point.     In the mid 1800s, Dueling was considered a barb...
04/01/2022
Honor Culture Is Back. We Eradicated It for a Reason.

Why Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars is beside the point. In the mid 1800s, Dueling was considered a barbaric relic of the honor culture of the Middle Ages and its aristocracy. Honor culture insisted that a slight to one’s honor, or to the honor of a lady, could only be satisfied by an expression of violence. And that expression of violence then validated the man’s position in the hierarchy. A relic of the worst elements of aristocracy, false virtue to mask real evil. And it was the antithesis of the American spirit, which they saw as linking virtue to freedom, hard work, and success.

Abraham Lincoln, Will Smith, and dueling.

This sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt was removed by Hong Kong puppet government because locals used it to comm...
03/20/2022
How China turned a Tiananmen Square memorial into one of the most sought-after sculptures in the world

This sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt was removed by Hong Kong puppet government because locals used it to commemorate Tiananmen Massacre. Now it's become one of the world's most sought after global projects, thanks to Xitler! Copies of the Pillar of Shame are being 3D printed and erected around the world, including the Hungarian site of China top institution Fudan University in Budapest.
Honored to be interviewed about it. The reporter moved to HK from NYC to teach journalism at Hong Kong University, the sculpture's former home, while tens of thousands Hongkongers are leaving town, going into exile.
Miniatures of the Pillar can be found on this website, organized by Hongkongers: https://canhker.ca/product/pillar-of-shame-21cm/ -from Rose T

The "Pillar of Shame" was meant to spread all around the world. It didn't — until now, thanks to its removal in Hong Kong.

David Diao's Long Search for Painting's Many Identities
02/27/2022
David Diao's Long Search for Painting's Many Identities

David Diao's Long Search for Painting's Many Identities

One key to understanding Diao’s art is that he has long worked with a reductive geometric vocabulary, while always pushing back against any of postmodernism’s reductive narratives.

In the upcoming weeks, we will highlight artwork from the HEARTMIND exhibitions in our permanent collection. The exhibit...
02/22/2022

In the upcoming weeks, we will highlight artwork from the HEARTMIND exhibitions in our permanent collection. The exhibitions were held at and art space October 2021 - January 2022.

Joseph Goto likely created this lithograph while an art student in Chicago, where he was influenced by artist Wifredo Lam. In addition to this print, Goto was known for monumental steel sculptures.

AAAC exhibited some of Goto’s smaller sculptures in the exhibition “Betrayal/ Empowerment I,” held at April 18-May 4, 1994.

Image: Joseph Goto (b. 1916 - 1994, Hilo, HI), untitled, 1940 (approx.), lithograph

Email [email protected] for more information on the collection.

Incredible sculpture in "The Lost Gardens of Heligan" changes its appearance with the seasons -
02/11/2022
Incredible sculpture in "The Lost Gardens of Heligan" changes its appearance with the seasons -

Incredible sculpture in "The Lost Gardens of Heligan" changes its appearance with the seasons -

Cornwall, in the south west of England, is a place that seems straight out of a fairy tale. Lost Gardens of Heligan – Europe’s largest garden restoration project spanning 200 acres is located here and is the perfect place for explorations. Within the restoration of this garden, there are so many...

Ming Fay's Chalice Heads , exhibited in Heartmind, with ThinkChinatown at One Pike - see ThinkChinatown.org/AAAC
02/02/2022

Ming Fay's Chalice Heads , exhibited in Heartmind, with ThinkChinatown at One Pike - see ThinkChinatown.org/AAAC

Photos from ThinkChinatown's post
02/01/2022

Photos from ThinkChinatown's post

A charmer, almost feels like its written about Chinatown.
01/29/2022

A charmer, almost feels like its written about Chinatown.

Anyone who has lived in New York for any time soon becomes aware of "Ghost Sites," places too soon relegated to memory. As part of City Lore's Place Matters project and the Census of Places that Matter, we struggle with how to think about and address the negative space posed by vanishing sites, especially during this Covid era. Our longtime friend, writer Kathryn Adisman has a unique take on the subject, and we invited her to contribute this guest blog for us, focusing, in part, on Bleecker Street in the West Village. In our Afterword and the accompanying collage by the artist Elaine Norman, we take a walk across Bleecker Street today.

Check out this Poetry of Everyday Life blog: https://citylore.org/ks-ghost-city-haunted-by-new-yorks-vanished-sites/

Image: Walking Today on Bleecker Street. Photo Collage by Elaine Norman.

https://metro.org/grants/equity-in-action/equity-action-grant-2022-Asian-American-Arts-Centre-and-Pratt-Institutes-Seman...
01/23/2022
Equity in Action 2022 : Asian American Arts Centre and Pratt Institute’s Semantic Lab | Metropolitan New York Library Council

https://metro.org/grants/equity-in-action/equity-action-grant-2022-Asian-American-Arts-Centre-and-Pratt-Institutes-Semantic-Lab?fbclid=IwAR3wAS-vlw2J4NAbohJCnBMGLUYxmivM06GH4Y9RU6Oyqfn1uNvaEPpRzjs

Asian American Arts Centre in New York City (AAAC) and Pratt Institute’s Semantic Lab will work together to ensure continued online access to resources documenting AAAC’s work. The project team will digitize, describe through Wikidata records, and contribute AAAC’s full collection of approxima...

Australian artist Lindy Lee immersive public sculpture, Ouroboros at the National Gallery of Australia coming in 2024.  ...
01/17/2022
Lindy Lee: Ouroboros

Australian artist Lindy Lee immersive public sculpture, Ouroboros at the National Gallery of Australia coming in 2024. https://knowmyname.nga.gov.au/events/lindylee-ouroboros/ In 1988 Toshio Sasaki's proposed a similar idea for the AAAC exhibition Public Art in Chinatown at the entrance to the Manhattan Bridge - Sun Gate.(recently exhibited at PRM)

Lindy Lee: Ouroboros

Our show at Pearl River Mart comes to a close. The show at One Pike continues, up till the end of the month.  ThinkChina...
01/10/2022

Our show at Pearl River Mart comes to a close. The show at One Pike continues, up till the end of the month. ThinkChinatown will have a reception there for a new window display, so gallery hours will be posted for that opening event. Open to public also on
Jan 29 - for the Closing Viewing at One Pike. ( Otherwise by appt.) A video encapsulating both exhibitions will be posted on ThinkChinatown.org/AAAC . Watch for it. Do share.

May our wishes align us pass our differences to a world we can share together.Deva Invocation I     by Anna Kuo  1989Thi...
12/23/2021

May our wishes align us pass our differences to a world we can share together.
Deva Invocation I by Anna Kuo 1989

This painting and several other art works can be seen in HEARTMIND at Pearl River Mart's gallery till Jan 9th.

A rare Hawaiian Silversword blooms at the summit of Haleakala Volcano just once a decade . - from Anna Kuo who shared Da...
12/17/2021

A rare Hawaiian Silversword blooms at the summit of Haleakala Volcano just once a decade . - from Anna Kuo who shared Daniel Sullivan Photography's post.

A rare Hawaiian Silversword blooms at the summit of Haleakala Volcano just once a decade . https://danielsullivan.photoshelter.com/index/G0000iX2gsX9egLk

gorgeous ! magical !
12/16/2021

gorgeous ! magical !

Fairy Inkcap (Coprinellus disseminatus): This fungi is also known as "trooping crumble cap" and is a species of agaric fungus in the family Psathyrellaceae. Unlike most other coprinoid mushrooms, the Fairy Inkcap does not dissolve into black ink (deliquesce) in maturity and just occasionally it's possible to stumble upon a magical stand like this if you are able to get out into woodland.

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Our October show is streaming! This month we take an in-depth look at fighting anti-Asian hate with education; Election 2022, AAPI political candidates; the history of Filipino American History Month; the Underground AAPI artists; and Eastern beauty trends.

Hear from:
David C. Banks, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education; Arlan Huang Artist Squid Frames;
Vanessa Leung Co-Executive Director, CACF: Coalition for Asian American Children & Families; John C. Liu Senator, New York State; Vivian Louie, Ph.D Director, Asian American Studies Center, Hunter College, The City University of New York
Christina Ong PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh
Lucius Young, Chief of Curriculum and Instruction, New York City Public Schools
Eleanor Yung Founder, Asian American Arts Centre
Stephanie Zheng Founder & CEO, Mount Lai

Watch now or on CUNY-TV:
1st & 3rd Tuesdays 8pm
Wednesday 8am, 2pm
Saturdays 6pm
Sundays 8:30am


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Only 8-days remained for Early Bird Special Application for 2021 Virtual DUMBO Dance Festival deadline (expires on Jan. 7th)

WHITE WAVE DANCE will be celebrating our 20th Anniversary Virtual DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL from June 10th-13th, 2021, and we are proud to present performing artists from around the world for Two Decades.

Be a part of our 20th Anniversary 2021 Virtual DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL.

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Please find more information at https://www.whitewavedance.org/ or contact 718-855-8822 or [email protected]

Promo Video: https://vimeo.com/481774060

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Inviting Community & Institutions across 🇺🇸 to for “Angklung Goes To America” 2020!
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Participating / will hv the chance to join "2021 US Angklung Festival"!
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See flyer below for details or email [email protected]
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Registration deadline November 30, 2020 (or until capacity is filled).
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Any chinese or chinese-american illustrators/artist interested in collaborating on a project?

I am interested in collaborating and doing some cool artwork on the hallway walls outside my photo studio. Looking to do large scale one color custom vinyl decals.

the walls are super chinatown. Bright yellow walls and red stairs and floors.

email me at [email protected] for more info.

check out my commercial work
www.beckyyee.com
Thank you, Bob, for encouraging us to post here!

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Songs Stuck In My Body is next Saturday March 30th, 6:30pm at The Kraine Theater during EstroGenius 2019: Artists. Unbound.

I’ll be dancing, singing, storytelling my way through this question- unearthing my material and cultural baggage that is at times hilarious and at times problematic. All with the amazing theatrical direction of Lauren Hlubny .

Tickets: bit.ly/SongsMarch
Trailer and Info: sarahchien.com/ssimb
Hi, My Name is Michelle Indelicato
im trying to find out about a painting i have from my father he brought back from Korea in the 60's if i post this on here could someone help me with this it's a Textured Oil Painting of a Waterfall/Mountain side and has a signature of a J.Kwan
if anyone knows of this artist could you please private message me, I was wondering if its an original or duplicate
any help in this would be greatly Appreciated.
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Hi I would like to let you know about a screening of the feature film Yellow Fever, starring real-life Jenna Ushkowitz, best known for her starring role on Glee, as well as Scott Patterson from Gilmore Girls.

It is a coming of age comedy about a girl adopted from Korea by white people - trying to find her place in her family .. the US of A .. and the world. The screening is on May 16th at the Landmark Opera Plaza Cinema in at 7:30PM.

We need to reach a pre-sales ticket threshold by May 7th to get the screening approved, so please come support this great indie gem! And please share with people you think might be interested. Thanks!

Ticket link below:

https://www.tugg.com/events/yellow-fever-ldyh
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