MI21 reimagines and reworks Mother India, the epic Bollywood film that captures the post-colonial Indian psyche, into a performance piece - 60 minutes of visual images accompanied live by a DJ and musicians. We'll...
A new show at the Arario Gallery in New York showcases the work of fifty emerging Asian American artists whose work, the curators say, is not about being Asian. We speak with artists Tattfoo Tan and Amy Fung-yi Lee,...
The singer-composer David Byrne’s unusual song cycle based on the life of the former first lady of the Philippines is now out as a two-CD set, with performances by vocalists like Cyndi Lauper, Natalie Merchant,...
Join us as we explore a tumultuous period in modern Japanese history through manga, Japanese comics. A new exhibition at the Center for Book Arts features issues of the renowned manga journal Garo during a period of...
The Brooklyn-based rap trio Das Racist, known for polarizing crowds at music festivals, joins us in the studio. Their style has been described as "'deconstructionalist': sawing the legs out from under hip-hop...
The first person of color drafted into the NBA, the Utah-born Misaka played for the New York Knicks during the 1947 season. A new film by Christine Toy Johnson and Bruce Johnson explores the pioneering athlete’s life...
From “Stargate” to “Star Trek,” Tiger Woods to Gojira, 2009 marked new highs—and lows—for Asian pop. Writer and editor Jeff Yang joins us for a dramatic reading of his Clement Clarke Moore-inspired poem chronicling the...
Martin Wong was a fixture in New York´s Lower East Side art and activism worlds in the 1980s and 1990s. His cityscape paintings of Chinatown and Loisaida, his championing of graffiti art and artists, and his uniquely...
At the vanguard of the nascent "taqwacore" scene, the tongue-in-cheek South Asian Muslim punk rock band, the Kominas, came through Brooklyn this past weekend, and they'll be back in town this July. With edgy shock...
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Playwright YOUNG JEAN LEE'S new work, The Shipment, examines the cultural stereotypes of black America through song, dance and sketches. The New York Times calls it "a loopy,...
