Asian

A profile of Chinese action choreographer Peng Zhang, whose behind-the-scenes work on Spider-Man: Brand New Day exemplifies the growing impact of Chinese creatives on Hollywood's biggest blockbusters.

At MMCA Seoul, an exhibition with a deliberately unsettled title is asking visitors to slow down before they apply a familiar art-historical label.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has opened Fashioning Chinese Women: Empire to Modernity, a major exhibition examining the evolution of Chinese women’s dress from the late Qing dynasty through the twentieth century.

As daily life becomes increasingly mediated through screens and data streams, London-based visual artist Peiyan Xu probes how technology reshapes perception itself. His practice spans 3D design, moving image, installation, and visual communication, building immersive systems that examine what it means to see, sense, and understand in an information-saturated age.

Award-winning graphic designer and creative director Qichao An brings over fifteen years of international experience in branding, visual identity and packaging. He has earned well over a hundred international accolades—including A’, Red Dot, Graphis, MUSE and Indigo—and has served on juries for multiple global design competitions.

Toronto-based artist Rajni Perera (b. 1985, Dehiwela, Sri Lanka) presents her first U.S. solo exhibition, Dhum Lōkaya, at Rajiv Menon Contemporary in Los Angeles

Taiwanese artist Cheng-Tsung Feng has long navigated the boundaries between craft, memory, and installation art.

A rare 1989 painting by Sheikh Mohammed Sultan achieved $50,800 at Christie’s New York, setting a new auction record for the Bangladeshi modernist.

This September, four Asian artists—Tao Siqi, Shuo Hao, Maoya Kishi, and Wan Chaoqian—present exhibitions across Shanghai, Paris, Tokyo, and Beijing, showcasing the diverse and dynamic voices shaping contemporary art today.

CULTURED magazine marked the debut of CULTURED China with a celebration at The Blond in SoHo. The launch gathered leading figures from the art, fashion, and cultural worlds to highlight the magazine’s expansion into China.