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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
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Tomokazu Matsuyama on Celebrating the Diversity of New York City
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The Cast and Crew of “Clean Slate” on Expanding Queer AAPI Stories
By The Amp, Joyce Keokham, Josephine Chiang, Emily May Jampel, and Yoko Kohmoto
Meropi Peponides and Remoy Philip on Performing the Revolution
By Shannon Lee, Meropi Peponides, and Remoy Philip
Suniko Bazargarid on Reflecting the Bureaucreacies of Migration
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News
Clare Hu and Jolene Fernandez Awarded the 2026 Van Lier Fellowship for Visual Arts; Nikaio Thomashow Awarded the 2026 Jadin Wong Fellowship for Dance
By A4 Staff
