Chat About: Magicfeifei and Kiana Shahnia
Chat About: Magicfeifei and Kiana Shahnia is an exhibition in conjunction with the event To Be Seen Looking: A Crisis at Play, May 21, 2025. Featuring works by artists Magicfeifei and Kiana Shahnia in conversation with Humanities graduate students Aashna Singh, Ahmet Kraja, and Miles Brautigum.
THE FUTURE OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ART HISTORY
The study of ancient Near Eastern art and material culture enjoys a vibrant, diversifying practice in the present, with advances in archaeological methods, digital imaging, and scientific analysis intersecting with critical approaches that foreground the entanglements of artistic production, cultural exchange, and heritage stewardship in shaping both ancient and modern engagements with the region.
Maverick Practices in Asian Art: Artists, Curators, and Scholars Breaching the Boundaries

Between Here and There: an Artist Talk on Diasporic Art and Time
Join curator Haemin Kim and artists Hai‑Wen Lin, Xuanlin Ye, and Fengzee Yang for a dynamic conversation about Drifting Timelines 流动时序. Together, they’ll explore how diasporic experience informs their creative process and disrupts linear time—layering memory, ancestry, and aspiration across past, present, and future.
Opening Reception for Drifting Timelines 流动时序 and Go Calmly Across This Room: In Memory
The Center for the Art of East Asia and CWAC Exhibitions invite you to join us in celebrating the op
Drifting Timelines 流动时序
We often discuss the past as if the memories, tradition, and history within it should be permanently suspended in a singular state.
Go Calmly Across This Room: In Memory
In 2020, Alan Longino (1987-2024) joined the Department of Art History as a doctoral student studying postwar Japanese conceptual art. One year prior, he had co-curated with Reiko Tomii the first U.S.
In Memoriam: Gloria Ferrari Pinney
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Nothing Selected. Opening Celebration
CWAC Exhibitions invites you to join the artists of Nothing Selected. to celebrate the opening of this exh