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Melissa Chiu

Melissa Chiu

Dr. Melissa Chiu is Director of the Asia Society Museum in New York and Vice President of the Society's Global Arts Programming. She was appointed director in 2004 after serving for three years as the Museum's first curator of contemporary Asian and Asian American art. As a leading authority on Asian contemporary art, she has initiated a number of major initiatives at the Asia Society Museum, including the launch of a contemporary art collection to complement the museum's outstanding Rockefeller Collection of traditional Asian art.

Recent publications and appearances on AsiaSociety.org

Listen: Detention of Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei 'A Perfect Storm'
Melissa Chiu, Director of the Asia Society Museum in New York, talks to the KCRW's "To The Point" program about artist and activist Ai Weiwei, who is being held by Chinese authorities on charges of "economic crimes."
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Ai Weiwei: From Porcelain Seeds to Chinese Prison?
The outspoken Chinese artist is the latest Chinese progressive to be detained in a government crackdown that began in February.
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