Asia Society

Sufi Pop Rocks the Asia Society (VIDEO)

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Sufi Music, World Music, COKE Sessions, Alif Allah Chambey Di Booty, Asia Society, Live Performance, Punjabi Music, Doris Duke Foundation, Chimta, Arif Lohar, Asia Society New York, New York Asia Society, NY Arts, NY Around Town, Arts News
Michal Shapiro

Arif Lohar brought his electrified Sufi music to the Asia Society and pretty much tore the place apart. Lohar wooed the audience, and the audience responded in spades.

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Agent of Change of the Month -- Baby Veronica

Rachel P. Goldstein | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: One Day on Earth, Asia Society, Equality Now, Jessica Neuwirth, Agent of Change Network, Agent of Change, Yasmeen Hassan, United Nations, Good News News
Rachel P. Goldstein

Since Thursday, my life has once again shifted in colossal ways. That evening, eight months of planning came to fruition with the Agent of Change prod...

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WATCH: Strange Breathing Sculpture

Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Shiva, Korean Art, Kinetic Sculpture, Artificial Forms, R-Ram Choe, Asia Society, Shiva-Nataraja, Uram, The Asia Society, Organic, New York Art, Arts News

This kinetic sculpture by North Korean artist U-Ram Choe renders organic movements with inorganic elements, creating what the artist calls 'anima-mach...

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Kia Makarechi

Anurag Kashyap's ''That Girl In Yellow Boots'

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Kalki Koechlin, Movie Review, Film Premieres, Film Review, Black Friday, Indina Cinema, Indian Films, Indian Movies, Asia Society, Dev D, Devd, That Girl in Yellow Boots, Anurag Kashyap, Culture News

When director Anurag Kashyap and actress Kalki Koechlin introduced "That GIrl in Yellow Boots" at its New York premiere at the Asia Society, Kashyap n...

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Melissa Chiu's Diplomatic Coup Brings Buddhist/Pakistani Art To The Asia Society

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Pakistan, Asia Society, Asian Art, Asia, Buddhism, Melissa-Chiu, Asian Art History, Arts News
Melody Breyer-Grell

The Asia Society is in the process of sharing Buddhist art from as seemingly unlikely a terrain as Pakistan, a country where Buddhism predated many other of the area's religions.

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Ai Weiwei on Google Plus: Looking for Trouble?

Lee Rosenbaum | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Art, Asia Society, China, Melissa Chiu, China Human Rights, Museums, Ai Weiwei, Video, Arts News
Lee Rosenbaum

It didn't take long for Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, released from detention on June (but not entirely free), to resume his provocative ways, placing himself in possible jeopardy.

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Ai Weiwei Early Photographs Shown In NY

AP | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Photography, Government, Nyc, East Village, Asia Society, Chinese Government, Ai Weiwei Early Photographs, Tompkins Square Park, Ai Weiwei, Allen Ginsberg, China, New York, Robert Frank, Detainee, Arts News

NEW YORK — An exhibition of more than 200 photographs by Ai Weiwei chronicles New York City in the 1980s and early `90s when the recently detain...

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PHOTOS: Ai Weiwei's Early 'New York Photographs'

Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: NY Around Town, Ai Weiwei New York, Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei, Ai Weiwei New York Photographs, Ai Weiwei, NY Culture, Asia Society, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) — An exhibition of more than 200 photographs by Ai Weiwei chronicles New York City in the 1980s and early '90s when the recently detai...

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Anna Almendrala

Rapid Troop Reduction Could Mean Civil War For Afghanistan: Panel

HuffingtonPost.com | Anna Almendrala | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Dead, Afghanistan Surge Drawdown, Richard Engel, Obama Afghanistan Drawdown Announcement, Tom Freston, Saad Mohseni, Asia Society, firefly3, Tolo TV, Afghanistan Troop Reduction, Video, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- The man the New Yorker referred to as "Afghanistan's first media mogul" said his country's "corrupt," "inept" and "thankless" governmen...

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U.S. May Miss Out On China Investment Boom

New York Times | DAVID BARBOZA | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Consumer Welfare, Asia Society, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Wall Street Banks, Foreign Exchange Reserves, Job Creation, China, Economic Boom, Capital, Business News

SHANGHAI — For three decades, wealthy nations have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in China, helping drive one of the most remarkable econo...

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The Mathematics of Military Balance

Fred Teng | Posted 06.19.2011

Read More: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South China Sea, Budget, Scott Van Buskirk, War, Asia Society, National Defense, U.S., Kissinger, Diplomacy, Nuclear, China, Fred Teng, People?S Republic of China, Pacific Command, Clinton, CHINA US Focus, Hillary, Admiral, White Paper, Seventh Fleet, Military, China-United States Exchange Foundation, Gdp, Robert Willard, Nfu, World News
Fred Teng

Many experts have always claimed that China has the largest army in the world. But while in China, there is only one solider to protect every 585 citizens, in the United States, there is one solider for every 198 citizens.

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How The Best School Systems Invest In Teachers

Anthony Jackson | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Singapore, Hong Kong, Asian Education, Education Reform, Teachers, China, Japan, International Education Rankings, Asia Society, Education News
Anthony Jackson

The highest-performing school systems in the world are mostly in Asia. What are the Asian school systems doing right? And what can the United States learn? The answer is clear: invest in teachers.

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Asia Needs More Women Leaders

Vishakha N. Desai | Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Asia, Women Leadership, Women Business Leaders, Women Leaders, Women, Women Graduation Rates, Asia Society, Business News
Vishakha N. Desai

It would be an enormous waste of human talent if one-half of the population was under-utilized, but women are still a rarity on corporate boards, in senior management and top government positions in Asia.

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Young People Are America's Best Ambassadors

Anthony Jackson | Posted 01.24.2011

Read More: Chinese Language, Mandarin, Michelle Obama, Asia Society Education, Confucius Classrooms, Walter Payton College Prep High School, Asia-Society-Education, 000 Strong Initiative, Chinese, 100, International Studies Schools Network, Hu Jintao, Barak Obama, Education, Asia Society, Education Reform, Boston Renaissance Charter, Hillary Clinton, Issn, Education News
Anthony Jackson

The 100,000 Strong Initiative bridges opportunity gap for all U.S. students to study in China, yielding the next generation of Americans to manage political, economic and cultural ties.

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Closing This Weekend -- Two Shows of Artists Who Use Music as Inspiration

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Illustration, David Stone Martin, Art, Jazz, Punk Rock, Asia Society, Yoshitomo Nara, Folk Music, Painting, New York News
Brad Balfour

Anyone interested in seeing work that uses popular music as both context and source material, should make it to any future exhibitions of these artists or check out their books.

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Japan's Top Lit Translator Comes to NYC: Gangster Fables

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Motoyuki Shibata, Michael Caine, John Boorman, Kinji Fukasaku, Paul Auster, Lee Marvin, Seijun Suzuki, Jacques Becker, Asia Society, Haruki Murakami, Kinokuniya, Japan, Translation, Lino Ventura, Gangster Fables, Takeshi Kitano, Books News
Barry Yourgrau

I'll have the pleasure of doing a bilingual reading on Thurs. Dec. 9 in New York with my good friend Motoyuki Shibata who is visiting from Japan. We...

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William Dalrymple: the Af-Pak Fiasco "on its last legs" (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Richard Holbrooke, Af-Pak, Pakistan, Kabul, Travel, Taliban, Independence, Sepoy Mutiny, Hamid Karzai, Pashtun, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Nine Lives, East India Company, Jalalabad, Barack Obama, Asia Society, William Dalrymple, Scotland, Travel Writing, Foreign Affairs, Christopher Lydon, Imperialism, Politics News
Christopher Lydon

William Dalrymple is drawing on a deep well of personal and imperial history in his stark clarification of our American comeuppance in Afghanistan. ...

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Is Twitter a Human Right? One Chinese Activist Thinks So

Catherine Ventura | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paley Center for Media, Internet, Human Rights, Ai Weiwei, Twitter, Hillary Clinton, Jack Dorsey, Asia Society, China, Readwriteweb, Technology News
Catherine Ventura

"Twitter is the people's tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources," said Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei at the Paley Center for Media.

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Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC's Indo-American Arts Council

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Rabindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, Pakistan, Salaam Bombay!, Punjabi, Sundaram Tagore, Hindus, Mira Nair, Sesame Street India, Indian Diaspora, Oiww, Bengali, Sikhs, Indian Consulate New York, Mumbai, Indian Classical Music, Aroon Shivdasani, Christians, New York Philharmonic, Jeffrey Sachs, Iona College, Indian Independence, Slumdog Millionaire, Barack Obama, Spanglish, U.S.S.R., Parsis, British, Danny Boyle, Amelia, Upper East Side, M.F.Husain, Broadway, Mahatma Gandhi, Ravi Shankar, Cold War, Hindi, 1947, Vishakha Desai, Indra Nooyi, Global Citizen, Doris Day, Isheeta Ganguly, Telugu, North America, Earth Institute, Salman Rushdie, Manvendra Singh Gohil, Indian-Americans, Urdu, Harold and Kumar, Buddhists, United States, Asia Society, Non-Aligned Nations, Queens, Indo-American Arts Council, Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, Royal House of Rajpipla, India Unveiled, Daily Kos, Thought Leader, Tamil, Mississippi Masala, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Columbia University, Haitian Earthquake Relief, Muslims, Nuclear Weapon State, Baha'is, Bollywood, Zubin Mehta, Orphans International Worldwide, Sanjay Gupta, Jains, Gujarati, Indo-Americans, New York News
Jim Luce

Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half he...

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Code Orange Philanthropy?

Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chile, Global Competency, Philanthropy, Asia Society Education, Haiti Earthquake, American Jewish World Service, Causes, Asia Society, Nonprofits, Global Fund for Women, Charities, Politics News
Rochelle Lefkowitz

What's tough is if everything, like every visit to an airport, is always Code Orange. Constant, low level anxiety starts to feel like the Cause That Cried Wolf--hard to trust, harder to back over time.

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Asia and America - Two Tracks, One Future

Vishakha N. Desai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: u.s. Foreign Policy, India, Education, 2010, Economy, Asia Society, Environment, International Relations, Asia, Home News
Vishakha N. Desai

Waking up on the first day of the new decade in my hometown of Ahmedabad, India, I was struck by the buoyancy in the air and the remarkable sense of e...

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How Helpful Is Cultural Diplomacy? Very Helpful!

Margaret Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Islam, Cultural Diplomacy, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Middle East, Foreign Affairs, Muslim Voices, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Asia Society, Bam, Public Diplomacy, New York News
Margaret Ayers

Muslim Voices: Arts and Ideas exemplifies how cultural exchange can promote dialogue that elevates discussion and understanding of our shared aspirations.

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Asia Society's Prez on Global Citizens Like Obama

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Upper East Side, Facebook, Performances, That, Shanghai, Afs, Pakistan, Jaffna, Hong Kong, Asian Art, Vishakha Desai, John D. Rockefeller, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Muslim, Andy Warhol Foundation, Indonesia, Hindu, Vietnam War, Korea, Williams College, Buddhist, Elephant Story, Nigeria, Mumbai, Brookings Institution, Sri Lanka., Robert B. Oxnam, Thought Leader, Manila, University of Massachusetts, Education, Asian Women Leaders, United States, Asia Society, Mathew Luce, Barack Obama, Global Citizen, Boston University, Asian-Americans, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Columbia University, Bombay University, U.S.-Asia Relationship, Hillary Clinton., Youtube, Taliban, India, International Relations, Asian Art History, Gates Foundation, New York News
Jim Luce

Asia Society president Vishakha Desai says, "Ours is a complex institution, and those experiencing it can describe it in the same way the blind men touch and describe an elephant."

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Mr. President: 21st Century Skills Include Global Competency

Anthony Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raising Children, Education, Education Reform, Get Schooled, Students, Barack Obama, Global Citizens, International Education, Asia Society, Politics News
Anthony Jackson

Just as in health care, the status quo in American public education is unacceptable and perilous to the nation's future. But 21st century skills must include global awareness and global competency.

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CA School's Culinary Arts Program Teaches World Culture, Racial Acceptance

Sonal Bains | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Lowell Bernstein, Organic Food, Children, Healthy Lifestyle, Charter Schools, Aveson Global Leadership Academy, International Education, Asia Society, School Lunches, Raising Global Citizens, Children's Health, Organic, Childhood Obesity, Green News
Sonal Bains

Transport yourself back to your elementary school cafeteria. Are you shuddering at the haunting memory of the combined odor of sloppy joes and Tater Tots?

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