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Encyclopedia > Christine Wang

Christine Wang (born 1967) is a Taiwan-born American architect, new media curator, art critic, and founder of the Wang Museum of Technology. For other uses, see Architect (disambiguation). ...


Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, she moved to New York City in 1971, first to Queens, then Great Neck, Long Island. She attended Great Neck North High School, then studied art history and architectural design at Barnard College, Columbia University, from which she graduated in 1989. She then received a Masters of Architecture at SCI-ARC Southern California Institute of Architecture, and in Vico Morcote, Switzerland. This article is about the city. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... This article is about the borough of New York City. ... This article is about the island in New York State. ... John L. Miller Great Neck North High School or simply North High School is a public high school a public high school, comprising grades 9 through 12, in Great Neck, New York, operated by the Great Neck School District. ... Barnard College, founded in 1889, is one of the four undergraduate divisions of Columbia University. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Southern California Institute of Architecture, founded in 1972 by Ray Kappe, is an independent institute granting undergraduate and graduate degrees in Architecture. ... Vico Morcote is a small village in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. ...


When she returned to New York in 1996, she practiced architecture with Hut Sachs Studio and was the principal architect and designer for Manhattan townhouses, Hamptons summer homes, and office spaces of such notable internet personages such as Kevin O'Connor, Leonard Riggio, and while at Francis R.Emma in Soho, she was the architect of the duplex renovation of the Park Avenue home of Len Blavatnick, industrial sheds for Brooklyn Union Gas, and the Cox residence in Amagansett, Long Island. With Concklin Constantin architects, she was the principal architect designer for MTA Inspector General's headquarters on Bryant Park, design of MTA Public Boardroom 347 Madison Avenue, Fordham University SMART classrooms. This article is about the borough of New York City. ... The Hamptons, shown highlighted The Hamptons refers to the towns of Southampton and East Hampton on the South Fork, Suffolk County, New York on the east end of Long Island, in Suffolk County, New York. ... Kevin OConnor (born February 24, 1982) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Brentford. ... Leonard Riggio is owner of Barnes & Noble, the largest specialty retailer in the world. ... Cast-iron architecture in Greene Street SoHo is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. ... Park Avenue in the Upper East Side (2004) Park Avenue runs north and south between Madison Avenue and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan in New York City. ... Amagansett is a hamlet ( and a census-designated place) located in Suffolk County, New York on the South Shore of Long Island. ... Bryant Park, August 2003 Bryant Park is a 9. ...


She then turned to her other love of art in 1999 she traveled to China, from Beijing to Hangzhou to Shanghai and met artists in their studios for an exhibition in 2000 called "Dystopia & Identity in the Age of Global Communications" at Tribes Gallery, East Village, NY, which was reviewed in the New York Times by Holland Cotter. It was the first exhibition in the United States of net.art in a physical space. [1][2] Peking redirects here. ...   (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Postal map spelling: Hangchow) is a sub-provincial city located in the Yangtze River Delta in the Peoples Republic of China, and the capital of Zhejiang province. ... For other uses, see Shanghai (disambiguation). ...


She then curated an exhibition of artists and architects in the Venice Biennial, Italy entitled "Re:Duchamp", which was reviewed in El Pais by Stefano Caldano. [3]


She is included in the UNESCO digi-arts Knowledge Portal[4], and the Asia Society's inaugural Asian Contemporary Art Week[5]. Wang organized a video screening at the Queens Museum of Art by the Japanese video artist, Masayuki Kawai, "About a Theological Situation in the Society of the Spectacle" [6]


She was also on the international jury for the Oberhausen International Film & Video Festival [7] and a co-founder of the Free.The.Media foundation with Paul Garrin. Currently, she is residing between Miami and Long Island and the Wang Museum of Technology[8] Paul Garrin, 1957, is best known as a politically active video artist from the 1990s. ...


References

  1. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E0DE163AF936A35752C0A9679C8B63 New York Times summary of Tribes Art Gallery
  2. ^ http://artport.whitney.org/resources/netartexhibitions.shtml Whitney Artport Mention of Tribes Art Gallery
  3. ^ Re: Duchamp | Traveling Exhibition
  4. ^ http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22536&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO Portal Mention
  5. ^ Asia Society
  6. ^ :: Exhibitions and Artists - Masayuki Kawai
  7. ^ Kurzfilmtage: 54th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
  8. ^ http://www.WangMuseum.org Wang Museum website


 
 

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