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2019 Arts & Museum Summit Panel 4: Changing Public Museums and Institutions

Panelists discuss how their museums have pivoted in collection practices with changing times.

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2019 Arts & Museum Summit

Leading arts professionals share insights into current collection practices and philosophies at arts institutions, including non-collecting museums and artists’ estates.

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2018 Asia Contemporary Art Week

The 13th Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW), September 5–November 2, 2018

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Nora Razian Creates an 'Open Platform' for Collaboration

Nora Razian discusses reopening a museum after eight years of renovation and building an audience in Beirut.

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Nora Razian Creates an “Open Platform” for Collaboration

Nora Razian, the Sursock Museum’s Head of Programs and Exhibitions, discusses reopening a museum after eight years of renovation and building an audience in Beirut.

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Resources

Case studies, reports, perspectives, videos

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The Asia Arts and Museum Network

The Asia Arts and Museum and Network is an Asia Society initiative, comprising the Arts & Museum Summit, the U.S.-China Museum Leaders Forum, and the web-based platform. Each component of the Network contributes to forging partnerships among museums in Asia and the U.S., strengthening arts communities through the creation of opportunities for professional exchange and the sharing of knowledge and expertise globally.

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Video | Talking Diversity in Politics

Watch our special panel discussion with 2016 Australian of the Year, David Morrison and NSW Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian on the need for more diversity in all levels of Australian politics and public life.

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Asia 21 Announces 2016 Class of Young Leaders

The new 2016 class and Asia 21 alumni will gather at annual summit in Seoul, December 8-10.

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Class of 2016

Asia 21 Young Leaders, Class of 2016

Asia Society presented three performances of Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh's "33 rpm and a few seconds" on April 29-30, 2014. (Ellen Wallop/Asia Society)

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'33 rpm and a few seconds' Imagines Activist's Suicide via Social Media

A new multimedia work from Lebanon envisions a Facebook feed as a storytelling device.

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Highlights: '33 rpm and a few seconds'

Excerpts from the innovative multimedia stage production, followed by a conversation between the artists and Shirin Neshat.

"33 rpm and a few seconds." (Courtesy the artists)

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33 rpm and a few seconds: Lina Saneh/Rabih Mroué

In their semi-documentary theater piece, Rabih Mroué and Lina Saneh reconstruct the final moments of a person’s life.

Former Iranian nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian (center) speaks with former U.S. nuclear negotiator Robert Einhorn during an event at Asia Society on December 17, 2013. (Kenji Takigami)

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Nuclear Deal With Iran Could Lead to Broader U.S.-Iran Dialogue, Say Experts

Former Iranian nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian and Asia Society’s Suzanne DiMaggio offered their views on the interim nuclear agreement between the P5+1 countries and Iran and on the prospects ahead for U.S.-Iran relations.

Lao schoolchildren before a poster warning about American bombs (Jerry Redfern)

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Legacies of War in Laos

US bombs dropped 40 years ago plague Laos today

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Rawi Hage and Madeleine Thien: The 'Mad, Mysterious' Life of Writing

Rawi Hage and Madeleine Thien see writing as a mad person's craft, but admit that injustice is one of their prime motivations for their work.

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Lebanon

2019 Arts & Museum Summit Panel 4: Changing Public Museums and Institutions

2019 Arts & Museum Summit

2018 Asia Contemporary Art Week

Nora Razian Creates an 'Open Platform' for Collaboration

Nora Razian Creates an “Open Platform” for Collaboration

Resources

The Asia Arts and Museum Network

Video | Talking Diversity in Politics

Asia 21 Announces 2016 Class of Young Leaders

Class of 2016

'33 rpm and a few seconds' Imagines Activist's Suicide via Social Media

Highlights: '33 rpm and a few seconds'

33 rpm and a few seconds: Lina Saneh/Rabih Mroué

Nuclear Deal With Iran Could Lead to Broader U.S.-Iran Dialogue, Say Experts

Legacies of War in Laos

Rawi Hage and Madeleine Thien: The 'Mad, Mysterious' Life of Writing