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Ryan Wong

Ryan Lee Wong is an arts writer based in Brooklyn. He has worked at the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Chinese in America, where he was assistant curator.

Posted inBooks

“Why Is Television Dumb?” and Other Musings by Nam June Paik

by Ryan Wong October 24, 2019October 24, 2019

In the recently published collection We Are in Open Circuits, Paik’s prescient critiques of image consumption suggest he probably would’ve been great at Twitter.

Posted inArt

A Sculpture Conjures the Secret Life of Trees

by Ryan Wong May 28, 2019May 30, 2019

Jean Shin’s “Allée Gathering” at Storm King shows how little many of us know about trees and nature.

Posted inArt

How to Talk About Whiteness

by Ryan Wong July 24, 2018July 26, 2018

The Racial Imaginary Institute wants to “make visible that which has been intentionally presented as inevitable,” to disrupt the “bloc” of whiteness.

Posted inArt

Mel Chin’s Tongue-in-Cheek Encyclopedia of the World

by Ryan Wong May 31, 2018June 1, 2018

He stares down the evils that have driven history, intervenes in public spaces, and collaborates with science — all in service to strengthening community

Posted inArt

The Long 1960s, Seen Through NYPD Surveillance Photographs

by Ryan Wong December 8, 2017December 7, 2017

The show offers rich historical materials, but little contextualization or insight into its relevance for our current political moment.

Posted inArt

Tracing the Lasting Influence of Black Power

by Ryan Wong May 18, 2017May 18, 2017

The Schomburg Center examines the importance of the political and social movement, from its poetry and music to its inspiring of marginalized groups around the world.

Posted inArt

A Syllabus for Making Work About Race as a White Artist in America

by Ryan Wong April 6, 2017April 6, 2017

This course offers a starting point: assignments for the white artist to understand their own racial position.

Posted inArt

A Brief History of the Art Collectives of NYC’s Chinatown

by Ryan Wong February 7, 2017February 7, 2017

Chinatown has long been a home to radical organizers and artists, collectives, and movements that have taken on questions of art production and displacement.

Posted inArt

New Art from China Renders Local Histories Fantastic, Futuristic, and Bloody

by Ryan Wong January 11, 2017

Each of these thoughtful, well-realized works offers an investigation into global politics, the contemporary as historical, and environmental collapse, with room to laugh, rest, and think in between.

Posted inArt

Painting the Violent Life Cycles of Bruises

by Ryan Wong December 29, 2016January 5, 2017

In his new series at James Cohan Gallery, Mud Root Ochre Leaf Star, Byron Kim paints bruises that radiate tenderness and hurt.

Posted inArt

Photography and Foreboding in 1970s Japan

by Ryan Wong November 25, 2015

For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979 offers an ambitious social and art history of a decade ignited by protest, shaped by global power dynamics, and visualized through new art forms.

Posted inOpinion

Seeing Beyond “Kimono Wednesdays”: On Asian American Protest

by Ryan Wong July 23, 2015July 27, 2015

When I heard that the Boston MFA was launching a dress-up social media campaign called “Kimono Wednesdays” based on a painting by Claude Monet, that a group of young Asian American protesters asked them to stop, that the MFA did and apologized, I thought it was an open and shut case.

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