Asian Avenue magazine

A Kris is no ordinary sword. This weapon has a steel blade, but is rarely used in battle. These swords are held in great esteem, even awe, and traditionally are used in almost every kind of formal ceremony and activity. Some are believed to be imbued with supernatural powers or to have spirits of their [...]

The Parker Arts Council presents the 3rd Annual Parker Asian Festival, an afternoon of cultural entertainment and education, at the Parker Fieldhouse on Saturday, January 17th from 2pm to 6pm. This year’s entertainment includes the Colorado Asian Cultural Heritage Center’s spectacular lion dance, United Studios of Self Defense’s Kenpo technique demonstration, Mudra Dance Studio’s North [...]

As a way to work through the death of her parents, Denver artist Jolene Fukuhara turned to shibori, a traditional Japanese art form of resist dyeing techniques. “Becoming involved in this particular art form gave me a way to turn uneasy, difficult emotion into a product of color, movement that’s visually satisfying; allowing unpleasant energy [...]

Currently on exhibit in the Lab at Belmar, the vibrant and imaginative art space in Lakewood, is a collection of fascinating views of traditional Japan - “Orientalist Photography: Japan in the Bakumatsu-Meiji Period, 1868 – 1912”.
The exhibition is curated by Mark Sink, photographer and private art consultant based in Denver, who twenty
years ago inherited a [...]

The recent rotation in the Modern & Contemporary Department at the Denver Art Museum (DAM) has brought out many previously seldom-exhibited works from the permanent collection. Among them is one of the best-known photographs by internationally-acclaimed Chinese artist Zhang Huan, now on display on the 3rd floor of the Hamilton Building.

Zhang Huan, born in 1965 [...]

It’s a fact of life within the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities: the next generations of Asian Americans will be increasingly hapa, or mixed-race.
Within the Japanese, Chinese and Korean communities, the ones who have been in the U.S. longest, it’s common to see plenty of young people who are part Caucasian, African American, and [...]

Originally, this idiom comes from Analects of Qianfu. Light and Dark. It recorded: “You will be enlightened if you listen to the both sides; you will be benighted if you heed only one side.”

What does it mean to be a truly beautiful work of art? A piece has to be more than simply pretty; it has to have substance. There is a beautiful Korean comb chest in the museum collection that exemplifies a fine piece of art. It is not only pretty, but also technically [...]

Exhibits and Visits
The artists Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong, and Zhang Daqian are without question the three greats in modern Chinese painting. They were also close acquaintances, who despite their varied career paths, differing political loyalties, and diverse painting styles, held each other in the highest esteem.  

One of the most widely recognized Japanese woodblock print artists of the nineteenth century is Yoshitoshi Tsukioka (1839-1892). His life spanned a period of incredible change in Japanese history, one that introduced Japan to the modern era after more than two hundred years of isolation. He produced his first publicly available print in the same [...]