Art
Rediscovering Leslie Kerr's Pop Abstraction
Kerr was an abstract artist with a vulgar sense of humor.
John Yau
Art
Warren Isensee’s Breakthrough
Isensee has gone from being a dutiful geometric abstractionist to defining his own trajectory, and gaining a verifiable freedom for himself.
Art
Charles Yuen’s Time is Now
Yuen’s ambiguous works resist a simple or anecdotal reading while speaking to our apprehensions and paranoia.
Performance
The Original Forger of Magic
No one was as successful at impersonation and forgery as William Ellsworth Robinson, nor has anyone failed as spectacularly.
Film
Another Asian American Actor’s Not-So-Hollywood Ending
To be Chinese in Hollywood meant that your name didn’t matter — no one in the audience would remember you or send you a fan letter.
Art
The Art World's Erasure of a Revolutionary Japanese-American Artist
It’s clear that Leo Amino was neither interested in making identity the key to his art nor concerned with fitting in because he likely knew that he never could.
Art
Patrick Strzelec Shows Us One Way to Cut the Mustard
Uncertainty is important, and not just because we are living in uncertain times.
Art
Liu Xiaodong’s New York Diary
Even in this acute moment in our history, the artist is able to slow down his looking to find and celebrate the beauty of human determination.
Art
The White Melting Pot
The work of Jiha Moon and Stephanie H. Shih is both aesthetic and political, a commentary on assimilation as a process in which one’s national origin is not forgotten or erased.
Art
Ying Li’s Ecstatic Landscapes
Li had to reinvent herself as a gestural painter in her 30s, after years of painting traditional ink-wash landscapes and Soviet-style propaganda.
Film
What Hollywood Does to Asian Actors
Hollywood stereotypes define the Asian male as bowing, scraping, obsequious, devious, sneaky, dismal, and sexually frustrated.
Art
Elliott Green’s Voyage of Self-Discovery
Green has attained something that few artists accomplish in their lifetime: he reinvented himself.