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Finding a Penfriend in Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts An open letter to n+1’s new anthology, which explores themes of racial aggression and privilege as well as celebrating solidarity Dear Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts, First, a confession: I am not Asian American. (I was born in London, am Chinese and monoracial, and have lived in both New York and Hong Kong, where I’m currently writing this letter.) Asian American identity politics is, generally, a no-go area for me: it is a delicate space; I do not want to intrude. I think of one particular literary magazine whose submission page includes the lines: ‘Do not send ideas about people and events in Asia unless they convey something about the Asian diaspora that resonates with the Asian American experience.’ Interesting. I wonder who decided that division – not unification – defined experiences of colonialism, oppression, pain and ....
Members of the Godzilla collective, ca. 1990. Courtesy Godzilla. The Museum of Chinese in America in New York has called off an exhibition focusing on a 1990s Asian American art collective after the majority of the participating artists withdrew. The 19 artists, who were members of the group Godzilla, oppose the museum’s acceptance of $35 million in city funds, which they say suggests its complicity in the construction of a new jail in Chinatown that is part of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s plan to close the notorious Rikers Island jail. Among the signatories to the letter are Byron Kim, Paul Pfeiffer, and Lynne Yamamoto. ....
March 11, 2021 at 3:00pm New York’s Museum of Chinese in America has canceled an exhibition of work by pioneering artist collective Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network after nineteen of the group’s members withdrew in protest of what they contend is the museum’s support for a large new jail in Chinatown, where the institution is located. The exhibition, “Godzilla vs. the Art World: 1990–2001,” was to open in May focusing on the efforts of the collective over the 12-year span of its existence, during which it published a newsletter, organized “slide slams,” and sponsored symposiums on Asian American art in an effort to elevate its presence on the national art scene and to foster intergenerational and interdisciplinary collaboration on a more local scale. ....
Remembering Corky Lee, The NYC Photographer Who Made Sure Asian Americans Were Never Forgotten View all 6 The first time An Rong Xu thought he had met Corky Lee was in 2008. Xu was a first year photography student at the School of Visual Arts who was in search of a compelling project about Asian Americans. He went to the Asian American Arts Centre in Chinatown, where the director Bob Lee told him simply, You gotta find Corky Lee. Lee, who died at 73 last week from coronavirus, had by then become the documentarian photographer of Asian Americans in New York City, shooting the community in its various moments of repose, work, and unrest: a taxi driver at the wheel balancing a cup of coffee; a child staring absentmindedly against the fluorescent backdrop of a worn factory; young male protesters linked arm-in-arm in unity. Then there were the countless community events, poetry readings, and small museum galas that Lee shot because nobody else c ....