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Takashi Murakami Honored as 2026 Art Game Changer
Takashi Murakami Honored as 2026 Art Game Changer
LOS ANGELES, May 3, 2026 — Takashi Murakami accepts Asia Society Southern California's Art Game Changer honor at the 2026 Asia Game Changer Awards SoCal presented by MindChamps. LACMA CEO and Walli...
How Can Portrait Paintings Represent Individual Identity and Social Climate?
How Can Portrait Paintings Represent Individual Identity and Social Climate?
Award-winning Chinese portrait painter Professor Li Qian’s classically staged tableau paintings are renowned for their portrayals of the individual as part of a collective. In conversation with Gao...
China is AI-pilled, but not AGI-pilled
China is AI-pilled, but not AGI-pilled
Listen to the full episode here: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-the-us-and-china-really-in-an-ai-race/ How are the United States and China pursuing AI development? On this episode of The...
Member Spotlight: Eric Gao of Boman Group on Engaging with Asia
Member Spotlight: Eric Gao of Boman Group on Engaging with Asia
Eric Gao of Boman Group discusses how the organisation is engaging with Asia and the ideas shaping its work across the region. (5 min., 56 sec.) Part of Member Spotlight, Asia Society Australia’s ...
What Can Confucius Teach Us About Today's Controversies?
What Can Confucius Teach Us About Today's Controversies?
China’s most fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia ago, but they have profoundly shaped Chinese political thinking and practice ever since. In this book, Daniel A. Bell d...
How Are Artistic Institutions Shaping the Greater Bay Area?
How Are Artistic Institutions Shaping the Greater Bay Area?
Featuring Damien Zhang, Director of Aranya Art Center; Felix Kwok, Chief Creative Officer and Deputy Director of Shenzhen Design Bay; and Lam Sio Man, former Curator of Macao Pavilion at the Venice...
What Does It Mean to Curate Asian Art on a Global Stage?
What Does It Mean to Curate Asian Art on a Global Stage?
...abi, whose progress continues to draw strong interest. Marking 20 years of the Asian Art Initiative at Guggenheim, the conversation at Asia Society Hong Kong highlighted its imp...
What Makes Hung Hsien a Pioneer of Modern Ink Art?
What Makes Hung Hsien a Pioneer of Modern Ink Art?
As Hung Hsien: Between Worlds opens at Asia Society Hong Kong, we were honored to host a special breakfast with Hung Hsien, the pioneering 92-year-old modern ink artist returning to Hong Kong after...
Tan Dun visits the Asia Society
Tan Dun visits the Asia Society
Renowned composer Tan Dun recently visited Asia Society in New York to explore our current exhibition “Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon” and reflect on his deep connection to the organization, sp...
Incarnations by Tan Dun | Excerpt 1
Incarnations by Tan Dun | Excerpt 1
NEW YORK, April 19, 2026 — Asia Society New York presents an excerpt from Incarnations by composer Tan Dun. Incarnations explores transformation and the universality of music through three works: a...
China and AI: 'Societal acceptance' of new tech
China and AI: 'Societal acceptance' of new tech
Dr Yu Jie, Senior Research Fellow on China in Chatham House's Asia-Pacific Programme on the acceptance of AI and new technology in China across society and generations. From a panel discussion hel...
Tableau Asia: Artistry on the Contemporary Plate
Tableau Asia: Artistry on the Contemporary Plate
...d Musaafer; and Jihan Lee, chef partner of Nami Nori and TBD Gimbap explore how Asian cuisine is being reimagined in New York City’s contemporary dining scene. The discussion loo...
What's Next for Curating Asia? Insights from Dib Bangkok
What's Next for Curating Asia? Insights from Dib Bangkok
ASHK welcomed Dr. Miwako Tezuka, the inaugural Director of Dib Bangkok, Thailand’s newly opened international contemporary art museum. Built in a redesigned 1980s warehouse and founded on a global ...
Asia Society | 70 Years of Bridging Cultures, Ideas, and Dialogue
Asia Society | 70 Years of Bridging Cultures, Ideas, and Dialogue
April 16, 2026 — Asia Society is a global non-profit that has been building bridges for 70 years. Our mission is to help navigate shared futures for Asia and the world through expertise across poli...
The role of Asia Society in promoting a deeper understanding of Asian cultures
The role of Asia Society in promoting a deeper understanding of Asian cultures
...cusses the critical role of Asia Society in promoting a deeper understanding of Asian cultures today.
Vishakha Desai Reflects on 70 Years of Asia Society
Vishakha Desai Reflects on 70 Years of Asia Society
... 3rd, and the critical role of the arts in engagement with and understanding of Asian cultures today. (8 min., 32 sec.) Learn more about how Asia Society is celebrating 70 years...
Buddha & Shiva Exhibition Tour | Rockefeller Collection at Asia Society Museum (70th Anniversary)
Buddha & Shiva Exhibition Tour | Rockefeller Collection at Asia Society Museum (70th Anniversary)
...ciety-and-rockefeller-legacy – Dr. Adriana Proser, Chief Curator and Curator of Asian Art at The Walters Art Museum, offers a deeper look into a selection of visually stunning wo...
How to get to ASHK from Admiralty station!
How to get to ASHK from Admiralty station!
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Chinese Portrait: Wang Xiaoshuai’s Documentary on Contemporary China
Chinese Portrait: Wang Xiaoshuai’s Documentary on Contemporary China
NEW YORK, March 8, 2026 — Chinese master filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai and producer Liu Xuan discuss the documentary “Chinese Portrait,” reflecting on its decade-long portrait of contemporary China, cap...