Giving voice to AAPI art and culture in NYC and beyond.
Interviews

Usman Riaz on Creating Pakistan’s First Hand-Drawn Animation Studio

Ahead of the nationwide release of Riaz’s debut feature film, “The Glassworker,” writer joyce keokham caught up with the director (who is also a classical music prodigy once featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk and former TEDx fellow) to discuss identity, inspiration, and delusion as a filmmaking strategy.
By joyce keokham
By joyce keokham
Interviews

Sheida Soleimani on Creating Political Poetry Through Images

By Yasi Alipour
Essays

Returning Home: Growing up as a Chinese Bolivian Immigrant

By James Huang

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Essays

Returning Home: Growing up as a Chinese Bolivian Immigrant

By James Huang

Films to See at the 48th Asian American International Film Festival

By A4 Staff

AAPI Artists On American Wars

By Shannon Lee

Asian Diasporic Stories at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival

By The Amp

“Maybe Happy Ending” Considers the Futures of Love

By Sophia Park

Mengwen Cao on Photographing Queer and Trans AAPI Artists

By Mengwen Cao

Finding Happy Endings for Queer Daughters in AAPI Cinema

By Sidnee Lim

The Amp Issue 2: Letter from the Editor

By Shannon Lee

The Enduring Influence of Rupi Kaur on AAPI Poetry

By Nimarta Narang

Reflections of an American Soldier

By William Chan

Please Stop Mistaking “Parasite” as an AAPI Film

By Melissa Kim

On Witnessing Art, Death, and Palestine

By Diana Seo Hyung Lee
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Profiles

The Expansive Vocabulary of Ishita Mili’s IMGE Dance Company

By Ashna Ali

Gia Fu Traces the Cross-Cultural Rhythms of Salsa Music

By Coral Yang

AAPI Community Filmmakers on the Rise: Anthony Banua-Simon

By Tracy Chung

Musician and Comedian Charlene Kaye Transforms Shame into Raucous Pride

By Joyce Keokham

Shyama Golden’s Demons

By Pramodha Weerasekera

CAO Collective Bridges Art, Healing, and Community

By Hannah Zhang

AAPI Filmmakers on the Rise: Sean Wang

By Nate Shu

Artist Michael Wang Challenges Visions of Apocalypse as Ruin

By Leo Kim

How Nobuko Miyamoto Set the Asian American Movement in Motion

By Ryan Lee Wong

Actress Shirley Chen Seeks Complicated Truths in Her Roles

By Amber X. Chen

How Ricky Sim Found Freedom in Comedy

By Rohan Zhou-Lee

AAPI FIlmmakers on the Rise: Ha’aheo Auwae-Dekker

By Lucas Manuel-Scheibe
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Reviews

AAPI Artists Reinterpreting Tradition at The Shed’s “Open Call: Portals”

By Bri Ng Schwartz

“Monstrous Beauty” Offers Oceans of Possibilities for Asian Femininity

By Hannah Bae

“Chinatown Cha-Cha” Pays Homage to the Golden Era of Chinatown Nightclubs

By Kathy Ou

“A Silence So Loud” Demands Careful Listening

By Hindley Wang

Interrogating the Foreignness of Language in “English”

By Lili Emtiaz

“Offerings for Escalante” Traces the Webs of Labor, Resistance, and Ecology

By Isabel Ling

“Magazine Fever” Lays Out the Cycles of AAPI Identity

By Mimi Wong

Hyeree Ro’s “Niro” Takes Us on the Immigrant Journey

By Taeyi Kim

In “BAR,” Artist Rujuta Rao Tends to the Entangled Histories of Feni

By Pallavi Surana

What the Legacies of Past Generations of AAPI Artists Might Teach Us About Our Current Moment

By Claire Voon

“Yellow Face” Satirizes the Limitations of Representation

By Katie Gee Salisbury

10 Short Films Exploring the AAPI Experience

By A4 Staff
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Interviews

Sheida Soleimani on Creating Political Poetry Through Images

By Yasi Alipour

Usman Riaz on Creating Pakistan’s First Hand-Drawn Animation Studio

By joyce keokham

Li Jun Li and Yao on Representing Asian Americans in the South in “Sinners”

By Zachary Lee

Lotus L. Kang on Mirroring, Roots, and In-Betweenness

By Gladys Lou

Playwright Ghina Fawaz on Processing History from Within

By Ghina Fawaz and Shannon Lee

Christine Sun Kim on Motherhood, Rage, and the Future

By Diana SeoHyung

W.O.W. Project’s Mei Lum and lucky risograph’s Amanda Chung on Supporting Chinatown through Art

By Mei Lum, Amanda Chung, and The Amp

Playwright Philip Chung on Asian American Hollywood Histories

By Katie Gee Salisbury

Riven Ratanavanh on Subverting Racialized Power Dynamics

By Riven Ratanavanh and Banyi Huang

Charles Yu’s Mind-Bending “Interior Chinatown”

By Caroline Cao and Charles Yu

Dawn Chan and Marit Liang on Asian Counterfutures

By Dawn Chan and Marit Liang

Vishavjit Singh on Becoming an American Hero

By Vishavjit Singh and Shannon Lee
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News

A4 Welcomes 2025 CUNY Cultural Corps Intern Elvie Luo

By A4 Staff

A4 Welcomes Bloomberg Arts Intern Vienna Chen

By A4 Staff

A4 and MoCADA Announce 2025 Bandung Residents

By A4 Staff

A4 Appoints Leo Chen and Mohmeet Kaur to Board of Directors

By A4 Staff

Asian American Arts Alliance Selected As Fiscal Sponsor for National Asian Pacific American Museum Commission

By A4 Staff

A4 Welcomes summer 2025 interns Lajward Zahra and Lexi Wachen

By A4 Staff

A4 Opens Call for $25,000 AAPI Organizational Grants

By A4 Staff

Asian American Arts Alliance Awards Hongbo Cai and Devi Majeske the 2025 Van Lier Fellowships for Music

By A4 Staff

Asian American Arts Alliance Awards Naomi Funaki the 2025 Jadin Wong Fellowship for Dance

By A4 Staff

A4 Welcomes Michelle Bae as Grantmaking Manager

By A4 Staff

A4 Welcomes 2025 CUNY Cultural Corps Intern Nathaly Guaman

By A4 Staff

A4 Announces Awardees of the 2025 What Can We Do? Artist Grant

By A4 Staff
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