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Essays

Dispatches from MOCA Town Hall and YAD Picket Line

There are few events in the arts that feel like a royal rumble, filled with infinitely entangled storylines and pent-up tension aching to be dispelled through a dramatic fight. The Museum of Chinese in America’s “Community Town Hall” was just that. In one corner was the Manhattan museum, which billed the event as an “open forum” in which they would address “community concerns.” In the other corner were skeptics who opposed the museum’s acceptance of “jail money”—colloquial shorthand for a $35 million gift bestowed by the city government as a community concession for building a new jail nearby.
By Danielle Wu
By Danielle Wu
Interviews

Lee Sung Jin on Season Two of “Beef”

By Lee Sung Jin and Zachary Lee

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