Museum Press
Asia Society Museum organizes groundbreaking exhibitions of traditional, modern and contemporary Asian art, as well as performances, films and artist talks.
Read press releases about our recent exhibitions and related cultural programming in New York below and on our press releases page. Watch videos related to our exhibitions and arts-related programming, including talks with artists and curators, on our video page here.
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Asia Society Museum, New York is known for its permanent collection which comprises masterpiece-quality traditional Asian art, and cutting-edge contemporary art videos and photographs by Asian and Asian American artists. Works from the permanent collection are on occasional view in New York, at our exhibition spaces in Hong Kong and Houston, and in loan exhibitions around the world.
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Grant will be used to establish a new endowment at Asia Society, The Mary Griggs Burke Fund, dedicated to exhibition development, as well as related educational programming.
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In a special performance, Invocation sextet will unveil a new project that explores Carnatic classical music from Southern India through the idiom of jazz.
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Multidisciplinary performance, part of the COIL 2016 Festival, features emerging Chinese artists.
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Recognizing Threats to Cultural Heritage in Asian Arts, Summit Focuses on Paths to Assure Asia’s Cultural Legacy.
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Includes Q&A with director Isabel Sandoval; screening of Thy Womb by Cannes’ Best Director winner Brillante Mendoza.
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In Voicing the Ancestral Sacred, Grace reclaims and revitalizes oral and aural traditional performances of the precolonial Philippines.
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Summit focuses on the preservation of cultural heritage and its related technologies in Asia
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Asia Society Brings Filipino Music, Film, Design and Food to New York for Special Season of Programs
Fall season of programs will explore the Philippines past, present and future. -
Special showcase celebrates the artistic visions of top Filipino designers.
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Tan will lead Asia Society’s global arts and cultural activities and oversee Asia Society Museum’s acclaimed collections.
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“Culture Under Threat" forum will take place in New York City on September 24, 2015.
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Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms will be on view in New York from September 10, 2015 through January 3, 2016.
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Symposium and 12th Annual Dinner explores and celebrates the transformative role of Asian art in the Bay Area and the world.
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U.S. premiere of one of Myanmar’s most beloved performing troupes on April 10-11.
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Asia Society Museum presents Takahiro Iwasaki: In Focus, the Japanese artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.
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For its 40th Anniversary Festival, Music From Japan presents two concerts at Asia Society New York featuring Mayumi Miyata, Jin Hi Kim, Wu Man, Richard Stoltzman and Fred Sherry among others
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Asia Society Museum To Open First U.S. Exhibition Focused on Loans from Collections in Myanmar, on February 10, 2015
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Nearly thirty American and Chinese museum directors will meet at Asia Society forum to discuss potential areas for partnership and projects for collaboration.
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Two-day event, FIELD MEETING: CRITICAL OF THE FUTURE, brings together artists, curators and institutional leaders
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Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot on view September 5, 2014 through January 4, 2015