ASIA CONTEMPORARY ART WEEK (ACAW) is taking a programmatic sabbatical in 2019 to plan our programs for 2020 and beyond. Please stay tuned. For questions and participation, please email us at acaw.contact@gmail.com. Thank you for your support! .history{margin-left: 27px;} Read More
Opening Reception – October 29th
Ventana244 Gallery Opening Reception | Wednesday, October 29, 5 – 7:30 pm Lu Yang: Arcade This presentation of select videos is accompanied by an experimental retrospective titled Lu Yang: Arcade, which transforms the storefront of Wallplay (Delancey & Orchard) into a vintage arcade featuring interactive games, video installations, and a shop of bizarre objects. Ventana244... Read More
Public Viewing – October 31st
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Friday, October 31, 2014, 10 am – 5:45 pm Wang Jianwei: Time Temple Beijing-based artist Wang Jianwei’s first solo-show in North America featuring installation, painting, film, and a live-theater production; a multi-faceted project steeped in history and social memory. $22 for nonmembers / free for members Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum >... Read More
Film Screening – November 1st
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Film Screening | Saturday, November 1, 2014, 5 pm The Morning Time Disappeared Inspired by Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Wang Jianwei’s film follows a young man who moves to Beijing with fantasies of the future and undergoes a series of transformations. $8 for nonmembers / $6 for members > In conjunction with the exhibition, Wang Jianwei: Time... Read More
Francesco Clemente: Inspired By India | Rubin Museum of Art
Rubin Museum of Art September 5, 2014 – February 2, 2015 Artists: Francesco Clemente The first-ever exhibition dedicated to the work that Clemente created while living in India— an extended period of cross-cultural exchange that has shaped the artist’s creative vocabulary over the past four decades. Since his first visits to India in the 1970s, Francesco Clemente has immersed... Read More
Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot | Asia Society Museum
Asia Society Museum September 5, 2014 – January 4, 2015 Artist: Nam June Paik Becoming Robot explores the Nam June Paik’s visionary use of technologies and the lasting impact his singular contributions have had on the development and appreciation of new media art. The exhibition highlights his lifelong interest in humanizing technology and his prescient view of how technological... Read More
Cao Fei: LA Town | LOMBARD FREID GALLERY
Lombard Freid Gallery September 10– October 25, 2014 Artist: Cao Fei Beijing-based artist Cao Fei is one of the most significant and innovative young artists to have emerged on the international scene from Mainland China. Known for her multimedia installations and videos, she mixes social commentary, popular aesthetics, references to Surrealism, and documentary conventions in... Read More
Ronald Ventura: E.R. (Endless Resurrection) | Tyler Rollins Fine Art
Tyler Rollins Fine Art September 4 – October 25, 2014 Artist: Ronald Ventura In his latest series of oil paintings, Ronald Ventura meditates on Filipino history through visual and performative culture, reflecting on the history of faith and its expressions in ritual, art, and in the human body itself. Tracing the evolution of iconic motifs in popular visual culture, from the... Read More
DAY ALL: MAR 21-31, 2011
Monday, March 21 The Museum of Modern Art 7 pm: Dialogue with Artist + Screening Modern Mondays: An Evening with Mariam Ghani Brooklyn-based artist Mariam Ghani (b. 1978) examines the public and private narratives that construct and contest histories, places, and communities through projects that both deploy and question the strategies and forms of documentary, performance,... Read More
DAY 11: MARCH 31, 2011
Thursday, March 31 Closing Events Asia Art Archive at Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) 6:30 pm: Dialogue with Artists and Director + Screening From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s Directed by Asia Art Archive, 2010, 45 mins, Hong Kong, China. Based on primary research, rare film footage and personal interviews with key artists, this... Read More
