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Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York

In celebration of Asia Society’s seventieth anniversary, Asia Society Museum presents Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Celebrating 70 Years of Asia Society and the Rockefeller Legacy. Displaying seventy of the finest examples of Asian art in the United States drawn from Asia Society’s permanent collection, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range of bronzes, ceramics, and […]

Japan Fes NYC 2026: Japanese Food Festival

Multiple NYC locations

JAPAN Fes, one of the city’s most beloved street food events, is returning to celebrate a major milestone: its 10th anniversary in New York City, bringing dozens of Japanese food vendors to the streets for a full day of snacking, sipping and exploring.  Each event typically runs from 10 am to 6 pm and pops up […]

Free

Shu Lea Cheang, LOVER LOVE

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art 26 Wooster Street, New York

LOVER LOVE, a new commission for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art by Shu Lea Cheang, begins with a portal. A window is flung open and the gray wall of an […]

Bangladesh Not “Bhaangadesh”

King Manor Museum 150-03 Jamaica Ave, Jamaica

This exhibition explores how Bangladeshis in Bangladesh and beyond took actions during the 2024 mass uprisings against the quota system in place, since 1972, immediately after the birth of the […]

Free

Exhibition: Ed Young’s Bright Worlds

Museum of Chinese in America 215 Centre Street, New York

For over 60 years, Ed Young (1931–2023) invigorated the world of children’s books through intimate storytelling, inventive artistry, and potent emotionality. This first U.S. retrospective features original artwork from 15 […]

Art Exhibit: Shared Lines: Asian American Stories on Route 66

Pearl River Mart Gallery - Soho 452 Broadway, New York

Route 66 might be the U.S.’s most famous highway. Traversing the country from Santa Monica, CA to Chicago, IL, it’s been immortalized in songs, books, and movies. But along that […]

Free

Kim Bohie – TOWARDS: There Was Light

Gallery Hyundai New York Project Space 529 W 20th St, Room 6E, New York

“That a still surface can hold yesterday, today, tomorrow at once; that here, there, and elsewhere can meet in the same moment; that different times and spaces can unfold together […]

Khudi Food Pop-Ups

Kaafi by Chaiguys 109 Ludlow St., New York

Khudi and Kaafi by Chaiguys host weekly Sunday pop-ups every Sunday in September on Ludlow Street, featuring freshly baked Pakistani-inspired cookies and savory scrolls with new flavors dropping each week. […]

Maia Ruth Lee: Double Vision

Tina Kim Gallery 525 W 21st St., New York

Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to present Double Vision, Maia Ruth Lee’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Interrogating migration as simultaneous perception, Lee conditions identity within multiple histories, temporalities, and […]

John Pai – Meditation: Myth and Memory

Gallery Hyundai New York Project Space 529 W 20th St, Room 6E, New York

Gallery Hyundai is pleased to present “Meditation: Myth and Memory”, an exhibition of Korean American sculptor John Pai, a major force in the Korean American diaspora of the last half-century. The opening reception takes place on Thursday September 10, 6-8pm at Gallery Hyundai New York Project Space. This exhibition seeks to provide a space for […]

Celebrating Sixty Years of China Institute Gallery: 1966-2026

China Institute Gallery 100 Washington Street, New York

Founded in 1966, the China Institute Gallery has presented the history of Chinese art from antiquity to the present through superb and thought-provoking exhibitions. The masterworks featured in Celebrating Sixty Years […]

Guest House: Welcome Home

The Wang Contemporary 58 Bowery, New York

Portraiture is as old as the pharaohs of Egypt. While mediums such as drawing, painting, and photography dominate the practice, rendering a three-dimensional likeness yielded astounding work across centuries, from the chiseled marble of the Renaissance to Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sensuous sculptures. Unlike marble, stone, or bronze, wax possesses a luminosity that makes it ideal […]

Free

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings

Artists Space 11 Cortlandt Alley, New York

Artists Space presents “Multiple Offerings”, the first retrospective in twenty-five years dedicated to the groundbreaking work of the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She produced an expansive range of works comprising performances for film and video, installation, photography, artist’s books (including her genre-defying book Dictée from 1982), and works on paper, which will fill Artists […]

Teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories Webinar Series

Virtual Event

As a valued friend of Foundations and Futures, we cordially invite you to a free webinar series co-sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Center X, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and the National Education Association (NEA). The Teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories Webinar Series will take place once a month on Mondays throughout the […]

Free

The Cherry Orchard

Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue, New York

Considered one of the great plays of the modern era, Anton Chekhov’s final play about a family on the edge of ruin is radically reimagined by acclaimed director and dramatist Simon Stone, who returns to the Armory following his blistering Obie-Award winning take on Federico García Lorca’s Yerma (2018). His refreshing adaptation resets the action from Russia to a […]

$47

Tom Yum Week

Multiple NYC locations

Something’s bubbling across New York 🌶️ TOM YUM WEEK September 16–30, 2026 A city-wide creative fest transforming Thai restaurants into creative spaces. Artists and creatives respond to special dishes, signature […]

Yuen Woo-ping Retrospective

Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53 Street, New York

In a Hong Kong film industry overflowing with martial arts talent, Yuen Woo-ping stands apart. His legendary influence, in a career spanning more than five decades, has earned him the […]

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Eli Klein 398 West Street, New York

A residency-then-exhibition Artists: Clare Hu, Tianyi Sun, and Shaan Ken Rao 398 West Street, New York, NY 10014 Residency: July 21 - September 16, 2026 Exhibition: September 17 - October […]

Tchah Sup Kim: The Key to a New World

Korean Cultural Center New York 122 East 32nd Street, New York

Tchah Sup Kim (1940–2022) was an artist whose lifelong practice explored fundamental questions of civilization, the universe, existence, and humanity. Moving beyond formal experimentation, his work sought new ways of […]

Free

Afterlayers: Tai Hwa Goh & Julia Kwon

The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor, New York

Opening reception: Thursday, September 17, 2026, 5-7pm Two artists transform traditional materials–textile and paper–to explore themes of identity and memory. Tai Hwa Goh creates intricate, layered installations from printed and cut paper, inspired by organic forms, landscapes, and the relationship between the interior and exterior. Goh’s process pushes the limits of traditional printmaking, as she […]

Zine* Together

Asia Art Archive in America 23 Cranberry Street, Ground Floor, Brooklyn

Please join Asia Art Archive in America on Thursday, September 17th from 5-8pm for the opening reception of their exhibition, Zine﹡ Together. Zine﹡ Together is the first exhibition of its […]

Synthetic Mobility

Fou Gallery 89 5th Avenue, # 701, New York

Fou Gallery is pleased to present “Synthetic Mobility”, a two-person exhibition featuring Tokyo- and New York-based artist Ai Makita and China-born, Houston-based kinetic artist Sizhu Li, on view from September 19 through November 8, 2026. The exhibition brings to the fore important questions about the interaction between technology and humans, considering how larger societal shifts […]

“A Tree Grows in Palestine” Outdoor Photo Exhibition

Saint Andrews Plaza 1 Saint Andrews Plaza, New York

“A Tree Grows in Palestine” is a free outdoor photography exhibition featuring 14 life-size portraits of Palestinian farmers, photographed on their farms in the West Bank. Presented by Treedom for […]

Free

School of Visual Arts’ After School Special 2026

SVA Theatre 333 West 23rd Street, New York

Featuring some of School of Visual Arts’ most accomplished film, television, animation, and visual effects alumni — the majority of whom are Asian or Asian American — this multi-day festival […]

Free

Maedeup: Weaving Shin Yun-bok

The Downstairs Theatre at La Mama 66 E 4th St., New York

Presented by La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Tickets: Free Admission (RSVP Required) A live, non-verbal performance that reimagines Korean classical painting through contemporary performance Named after the Korean word for “knot,” maedeup evokes the weaving together of image, movement, sound, and memory. Inspired by the visual world of Shin Yun-bok (Hyewon), an 18th-century Korean painter […]

Free

The Recursion of a Moth

Teatro Circulo 64 East 4th St., New York

A story about time, memory, diaspora, and the futures we dare to imagine, can we break the cycles we are born into, or are we destined to repeat them? On the Moon, Icarus dreams of soup. Across the ocean, Mikey dreams of war. At Purdue, Chrys dreams of a yellow house. In a future where […]

$39.19

Hold These Truths

Luna Stage 555 Valley Rd., West Orange

During World War II, student Gordon Hirabayashi fights the US government's orders to forcibly incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. Struggling to reconcile his country's betrayal with his passionate belief in the Constitution, he journeys toward greater understanding of America's triumphs - and confrontation with its failures. A 36-character solo play inspired […]

icchā by Barkha Patel Dance Co.

Tribeca Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers St., New York

icchā is an interdisciplinary solo kathak work by barkha patel dance co, presented by Tribeca Performing Arts Center. icchā weaves original music, film, and set design with the Gujarati folk form garba […]

$30 – $40

Yunie’s Magical Adventure: A Musical Dreamscape for the Whole Family

Korean Cultural Center New York 122 East 32nd Street, New York

Yunie’s Magical Adventure is an imaginative family music theater production that brings beloved Korean children’s songs and traditional games to life through storytelling, multimedia, and the vibrant sounds of both Western classical and Korean traditional music. The story follows Yunie, a curious young girl who discovers a magical world when tofu and bean sprouts suddenly […]

Free

HOME: Kinetic Roots

Fridman Gallery 169 Bowery, New York

About the Work  Home is not a fixed place, but a space that continues to be created through the time and memories we have lived through, and through the relationships […]

Free

Bridging the Connection

Bangladeshi American Artists Forum 16 Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York

Organized by Bangladeshi American Artists Forum (BAAF) Curated by Kaiser Kamal and Kyoko Sato Artist-in-Residence from Japan: Nobuko Exhibiting Artists: Arthur Azad | Alma Leya | Barkia Azam | Bishwajit Chowdhury | Bonnie Astor | Dina Zaman | Dipa Debnath | Farhana Yasmin | Kaiser Kamal | Kaniz Husna Akbory | Kazol Anthony Das | […]

Free
Ongoing

Ma-Yi Theatre Free FALL Playwriting Workshop with Lisa Sanaye Dring

Virtual
Virtual Event

Ma-Yi Theatre Free FALL Playwriting Workshop with Lisa Sanaye Dring Due to the overwhelming response to our summer Free Playwriting Workshop, Ma-Yi Theater Company is thrilled to announce two additional FREE […]

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Queens Night Market

New York Hall of Science 47-01 111th St, Corona

The Queens Night Market is a large, family-friendly open-air night market in Queens, featuring over 100 independent vendors selling merchandise, art, and food and featuring small-scale cultural performances, all celebrating the rich cultural diversity and heritage of NYC and Queens. Every Saturday from  4pm to midnight April.18 to  August 22  and  September 19 to October 31. […]

Free

KOBA Korean BBQ Free Lunch

Lunch is on us, FiDi! 🥢🌕 Join KOBA Korean BBQ for FREE LUNCH as we celebrate Chuseok — the Korean Harvest Festival! We’re celebrating with gratitude, good food, and our […]

Authentic Japanese Tea Ceremony at K. Minamoto

K. Minamoto 604 5th Avenue, New York

Experience an authentic Japanese tea ceremony, enjoy freshly prepared matcha, and savor a seasonal Japanese treat at K. Minamoto NYC. Experience an authentic Japanese tea ceremony at K. Minamoto New […]

$30

Meet & Greet: Misako Rocks!

Kinokuniya 1073 6th Ave., New York

Celebrate the release of Double Trouble: Lost in Japan and How to Draw Kawaii Manga PETS by Misako Rocks! with a meet & greet event at Kinokuniya New York! Get your copies of these exciting new releases and have them autographed by the author! There will also be an author talk followed by a fun […]

Japan Village Night Market

Japan Village 934 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn

Join us for our last Night Market of the year🎤🍻 Come hang out with us at Japan Village for a night of live performances, good food, Japanese drinks, beer, and more. Bring your friends, grab a bite, have a drink, and hang out with us for the night! 📍Japan Village Courtyard 🎟️ Free Entry

Free

Modern Mooncake Making Workshop

Kitsby 393 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York

Mooncakes have been bringing families together for centuries — shared over tea, under the full moon, at the center of Mid-Autumn Festival. We're putting our own spin on tradition with […]

$125

MOCA PERFORMS – Wonggongchang Mega Explosive

Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) 215 Centre Street, New York

The Museum of Chinese in America proudly presents Wonggongchang Mega Explosive, the second full-length album by Taiwanese composer, electronic musician, and producer Calvin Kaiˇ-Weiˉ Chang, a.k.a Kaiwei. Set for 2026 release […]

Hina Oikawa Short Songs: Voices of a Hundred Poets

Lefrak Concert Hall 153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing

Hina Oikawa Short Songs returns to Queens for a multisensory evening where a 10-piece jazz ensemble — horns, rhythm section, and vocals — performs in real-time dialogue with live visual […]

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