In 1990, Godzilla: Asian American Art Network formed to stimulate visibility and critical discourse for Asian American artists, curators, and writers who were negotiating a historically exclusionary art world and society. Founded by Ken Chu, Bing Lee, and Margo Machida, Godzilla produced exhibitions, publications, and community collaborations that sought social change through art and advocacy. Expanding into a nationwide network, the group confronted institutional racism, Western imperialism, anti-Asian violence, the AIDS crisis, and Asian sexuality and gender representation, among other issues.
Renowned architects Louis de Soissons – the designers behind Welwyn Garden City – have been given the green light for a ground-breaking £30 million automotive project at Hatfield Business Park.
Asian American artists, now activists, push back against hate
From left: Tomie Arai, ManSee Kong and Betty Yu, founders of the Chinatown Art Brigade, an activist group, in New York, April 8, 2021. Newly spurred to action to combat bias, Asian American artists generate subway posters, leverage social media and stage Zoom webinars. Jingyu Lin/The New York Times.
by Aruna DSouza
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Early in the pandemic, word started to travel among Asian American artists: Racist attacks were on the rise. Jamie Chan told a fellow artist, Kenneth Tam, about getting kicked out of an Uber pool ride by the driver who noticed her sniffling. Anicka Yi, an artist based in New York, called Christine Y. Kim, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to talk about being spit at on a Manhattan street; Kim, in turn, recounted being accosted in a Whole Foods parking lot.
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HR Owen has officially moved into its new Bentley Motors luxury car dealership in Surrey ahead of the April 12 return of customers following COVID-19 ‘Lockdown 3’.
The AM100 car retail group moves to the new Ripley site from its previous site in Byfleet to benefit from a 0.7-acre location capable of displaying 30 new and used vehicles.
It is the latest investment by HR Owen, following multiple new showroom announcements and renovations of existing sites over the past year and last month’s announcement that it had begun development of a 5.4-acre Bentley, Lamborghini and Maserati supercar dealership megacentre in Hatfield.
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HR Owen’s Cheltenham Aston Martin dealership has been named as the brand s Dealer of the Year 2020 as it claimed two top accolades at the British carmaker s annual awards.
HR Owen chief executive, Ken Choo, praised the team at the facility for their show of “incredible resilience and ingenuity” to continue to deliver high standards and deliver awards during a period which was heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alongside its overall Dealer of the Year accolade, Aston Martin Cheltenham also claimed the British sports and supercar maker’s UK Aftersales Customer Satisfaction Index Dealer of the Year award.