A new exhibition at New York’s Museum of the Chinese in America (MOCA) surveys Asian American magazines from the 1980s and 1990s including such storied titles as A. Magazine, AsiAm, AsianWeek, Audrey, Giant Robot, Hyphen, Jade, KoreAm, Rice, Transpacific, YOLK, and others.
“Magazine Fever: Gen X Asian American Periodicals” opened Thursday and runs until March 30, 2025.
“In the 1980s and ’90s, as Asian American identity transformed from a radical vision born of political agitation into a broadly recognized demographic, how did ethnic magazines reflect this new consciousness?” the museum asks.
“Magazine Fever presents stories of Generation X magazines — how they were founded and sustained; how they captured the essence of multiculturalism and Generation X paradigms, and how they impacted the ways Asian American identity is understood today,” it said.
A companion exhibition focuses on three more recent magazines: 4N, Hotam, and te magazine.
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