New York Asia Week, launched by the auction houses in the early 1990s, presumes that people who are interested in Tibetan sculpture might somehow also be interested in Malaysian batik and Chinese contemporary. Twenty years on, this fiction is stronger than ever, perhaps because it's fun, the idea of looking at art made during the past three millennia on the world's largest and most populous continent.
Considering the beast, it's no surprise that New York Asia Week has turned into a cacophony of branding. What is it? When is it? What does it include? Well, the auction houses join with more than 30 galleries for Asia Week New York 2011, Mar. 18-26, 2011, chaired by dealer Carlton Rochell, while the contemporary Asian art scene comes together for Asian Contemporary Art Week(ACAW), Mar. 21-31, 2011, directed by curator Leeza Ahmady.
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