Registration opened today for the Film Lab’s 13th Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout (“Shootout”), which will take place in early June. Filmmakers began registering online at www.film-lab.org for this worldwide filmmaking competition, designed to promote ethnic and gender diversity in media, in which filmmaking teams are given a common theme at the start and then have 72 hours to write, shoot, edit, and complete short films up to five minutes in length. This year, the Film Lab says it intends to focus on the meaning of “American” – what does it really mean to be an American? Who “deserves” to be considered an American? “The idea came from one of our Board members, Aaron Woolfolk,” explained Film Lab President, Jennifer Betit Yen. “And the official tagline this year, ‘Stand Together,’ came from co-Shootout coordinator Cici Chu. We want to focus on what brings our diverse and heterogeneous nation together and on our common humanity.” [Read More]

China 2000 Fine Art is pleased to present the Asia Week NY exhibition STRONGER TOGETHER—MELDING CULTURAL IDIOMS in their location at 1556 Third Ave, Suite 601, in Manhattan. The exhibition focuses on the work of two western artists, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, both of whom created their final projects by re-examining an earlier allure for Chinese artistic expression and translating this affinity into their own unique idioms. The exhibition consists of three very large works, one by Lichtenstein titled Landscape with Poet (1996) and two by Rauschenberg titled Lotus III and Lotus V (from the Lotus Series, 2008). And on the eastern wall, hanging scrolls in Square Word Calligraphy by Xu Bing (b. 1955), whose creative genius is rooted in bringing the world—east and west, rich and poor, young and old—closer together. [Read More]

Members of the 2017 GRAMMY® Award-winning Silk Road Ensemble performed with forty local students from the Silk Road Connect of JHS 185 Edward Bleeker to celebrate the role music plays in learning and advancing global understanding as part of The Music of Strangers Interactive Experience at the Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Terminal. [Read More]