Using a definition of Asia that stretches from Australia all the way to Mongolia and includes the Middle East, plus Asian-American and other diasporic artists, the triennial will offer a snapshot of the ways artists from various regions are synthesising and amplifying what’s going on around them.
Now Asia Society is placing its biggest bet yet on contemporary art: Its inaugural Triennial of Asia will open next summer and bring to New York some 40 artists, along with intellectuals and historians, from what it calls 'Asia and the world.'
