World Championship gold medal gymnast Anna Li may have her foot in a cast, but that’s not stopping her from aiming for the Summer Olympics in London this July. […]
Category: Art
A Writer’s Life: Living Wabi Sabi
Former ER writer Shannon Goss, in her third installment of a continuing series, talks about life as a modern Asian American hapa woman. I am not the person you […]
High School Student Disqualified From National Art Competition For Plagiarism
Cheon with Rep. Adam Smith of Washington. A Korean American high school student’s winning piece in a national art competition proved to be plagiarized, prompting her disqualification. The senior […]
March Issue: Yellow Power Redux
Don Lee’s highly praised fourth book, The Collective, about three Asian American artists, is his most personal yet. by VIVIEN KIM THORP Transnational adoption, interracial dating, the ephemeral nature […]
August Cover Story: The Launch of the YOMYOMF Network and What It Means for Asian Americans
Look What’s on the Tube! The new YOMYOMF network on YouTube has the potential to cash in on the Asian American audience, while bringing together two generations of Asian American artists. […]
Photos Highlight Korea’s Plastic Surgery Obsession
[PHOTOS REMOVED AT REQUEST OF PHOTOGRAPHER] The materialistic and image-conscious culture of South Korea has been the driving force behind its innovation in the field of plastic surgery, which, in […]
June Issue: A Korean American Soldier’s Photo Essay of Iraq and Afghanistan
One of my platoons in Za Khel, Afghanistan, doing a dismounted patrol that was supposedly embedded with the enemy. Through A Soldier’s Lens A Korean American officer in the […]
Seattle Culinary Artist Dies At 34
Christina Choi, a culinary artist and former restaurant owner from Seattle, passed away on Wednesday after suffering complications from a brain aneurysm. She was the co-founder of Foraged & […]
Why Are There So Many Good Asian American Cartoonists?
Pictured above: A self-portrait by Derek Kirk Kim. Revenge of the Nerds An exploration of why there seems to be a glut of Asian American graphic novel superstars. […]
December Issue: Why Are There So Many Good Asian American Cartoonists?
A self-portrait by Derek Kirk Kim. An exploration of why there seems to be a glut of Asian American graphic novel superstars. by Oliver Saria For those interested in […]
Female Artist Lives With Pigs For Four Days
Photos via Daily Mail (U.K.) When Miru Kim was a student at Columbia University in New York, her fascination for pigs developed after a university dissection. “That is when […]
Stuttgart's Refreshingly New Modern Library
Have you ever seen a library as modern as this? Korean architect Eun Young Yi beat out 235 other proposals to win the honor of designing the new central […]
November Issue: Comedy Troupe OPM Brings The Laughs
Celebrating A Decade of In-Your-Face Funny After years of performing in Los Angeles, OPM—the hilarious, groundbreaking, multiethnic comedy troupe—plans to pack it in. But is it really the end […]
Bicycle Chain Human Sculptures
The human body is a complex system and yet Korea-based artist Yeong-Deok Seo’s figurative sculptures manage to capture the human form’s intricacies. His realistic models are comprised of bicycle […]
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