Making Chinatown

The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) is titled after a 14th-century medieval treatise on faith, in which “the cloud of unknowing” that stands between the aspirant and God can only be evoked by the senses, rather than the rational mind...

In the series Horizons (2010), Lipps uses appropriation to riff on Modernism’s fascination with abstract form...

Walking Through is one of a series of videos—sometimes humorous, often absurd—that record the artist’s performative interactions with objects in a particular site...

Oded Hirsch’s video work Nothing New (2012) utilizes seemingly absurdist tropes to raise more trenchant questions about communal action and collective identity in modern day Israel...

The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) is titled after a 14th-century medieval treatise on faith, in which “the cloud of unknowing” that stands between the aspirant and God can only be evoked by the senses, rather than the rational mind...

In the series Horizons (2010), Lipps uses appropriation to riff on Modernism’s fascination with abstract form...

War Footage is a series of wall-mounted works composed of 16mm film leader, tightly bound to flag-shaped panels by the artist...

Re: Looking marks a new phase in Wong’s work which connects his region’s history with other parts of the world...

The founder of one of Moscow's few private museums died in Greece....

Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation (DBF) is established to support artists and art practitioners, who offer new insights on our world and our future...

Required Reading Skip to content Everybody’s Bolos , a sumptuous display of historical and contemporary bolo ties exploring the traditionally Indigenous art form, just opened at the University of North Texas, with bolos on view including Wyatt Nestor-Pasicznyk's "A Wilder Blue" (left), Navajo/Hopi artist JJ Otero's "Land Back" (center), and Bee Reid's "Violet Body" (right)...

Programming The Studios 2019: An Interview with Lynn Yang | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles March 14, 2019 By Selina Chong (519 words, two-minute read) The Studios is Esplanade’s longest running platform for supporting Singapore’s theatre scene...

In addition to Yang’s signature drying rack and light bulbs, Office Voodoo includes various office supplies like CDs, paper clips, headphones, a computer mouse, a stamp, a hole puncher, a mobile phone charger...

Wolfgang Tillmans initiated the ongoing series Faltenwurf in 1989, representing compositions of unused clothing, with special attention paid to the ways in which they drape and fold...

Taking archaeology as her departure point to examine the trajectories of replicated and displaced objects, “Who will measure the space, who will tell me the time?” was produced in Oaxaca for her exhibition of the same title at the Contemporary Museum of Oaxaca (MACO) in 2015...

In his seven-channel video installation Making Chinatown (2012) artist Ming Wong reconstructs a Hollywood classic to complicate the relationship between identity, language and performance...

3pm, location TBA Space extremely limited, RSVP required In many Hollywood motion pictures, the image of Chinatown registers as a fleeting montage of gangster chasing, detective hunting, opium smoking, mahjong playing, red lantern flickering and pedestrian clamoring spectacle...

"Chinatown Crossings": A Trail of Echoes | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Image courtesy of Drama Box July 12, 2018 By Akanksha Raja (890 words, 5 minute read) Along the bustling roads of Chinatown and the throngs of long-time residents, local visitors and tourists, there’s an invisible, theatrical time machine that comes to life a few evenings a week, running until mid-August...

Design store Beverly's opens in New York's Chinatown | Wallpaper (Image credit: Photography: Sean Davidson) By Pei-Ru Keh published 15 December 2023 Contributions from Sean Davidson - Photography When Beverly Nguyen first opened her namesake store, Beverly’s, it was April 2021...