New York City’s Asia Society Museum held a private exhibition viewing of “Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993” last week hosted by Trustees Stephanie T. Foster and Thomas E. Freston. The show includes over 200 photographs taken by Ai Weiwei of the free-spirited events, creative personalities, and protest movements that defined New York City’s East Village in the 1980’s.
Asia Society Museum Associate Curator Miwako Tezuka led a tour through the exhibition that was followed by an exclusive panel discussion with the museum’s director Melissa Chiu, art historian and photographer Joan Lebold Cohen, poet and writer Bob Resenthal, contemporary art specialist John Tancock, and musician Steven Taylor. A reception followed in the Society’s Garden Court attended by guests like Alexander Gilkes, Henry Howard-Sneyd, Chiu-ti Jansen, Helen Little, Christophe Mao, Denis Saul, John Tancock, Patricia Tang, Masako Shinn, and Lulu Wang.
“Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993” is on view at Asia Society through August 14, 2011.
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All images courtesy of Asia Society.
