AAA in A maintains a non-circulating Reading Room collection that is open to the public free of charge. This collection comprises over 5000 monographs, exhibition catalogues, reference books, periodicals, and audio-visual materials about contemporary art from and of Asia. The Reading Room also serves as an onsite access point to the over 55,000 digitized records of primary source material from AAA’s digital research collection, including photographs, letters, writing, ephemera, and video documentation.
The Reading Room is open by appointment, Tuesday through Friday, 10:00am-5:00pm. Mask wearing and COVID-19 vaccination are no longer required to access the Reading Room, but are recommended. To make an appointment, please use this link. Wi-Fi, a scanner, and a photocopier are available. Search through our Reading Room collection’s online catalog via keyword, author, or artist below:
Questions of Cultural Identity
by Stuart Hall
Serve the People: The Asian American Movement in New York
by Ryan Wong
The Intimacies of Four Continents
by Lisa Lowe
Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Objects/Histories)
by Margo Machida
The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity by Joan Kee
Saleem Ahmed: Rani Road
by Saleem Ahmed
Silence Is Gold: Contemporary Myanmar Art After Political Changes 2015-2019
by Aung Myat Htay
The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity by Joan Kee
Psychedelics and Technics
by Zheng Mahler
Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Objects/Histories)
by Margo Machida
The Intimacies of Four Continents
by Lisa Lowe
Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong
by Holmes Chan
The New Chinese Painting 1949-1986
by Joan Lebold Cohen
Life & Death: Art and the Body in Contemporary China
by Silvia FOK, 霍少霞
Yunnan school: A Renaissance in Chinese painting
by Joan Lebold Cohen
Memories of West Lake: Wang Gongyi, 西湖志:王公懿
by Wang Gongyi
Micro Politics
by Collective Thai Scripts
Ark of Martyrs
by Allan deSouza
Corridor
by Sarnath Banerjee
Movie Journal: The Rise of a New American Cinema, 1959-1971
by Jonas Mekas
Fabre’s Book of Insects
by Jean-Henri Fabre
Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene
by McKenzie Wark
The Filter Bubble
by Eli Pariser
The Color Curtain
by Richard Wright
Zen Buddhism, 禅与生活
by D.T. Suzuki
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
by bell hooks
Crossing to Safety
by Wallace Stegner
Recombinant
by Ching-In Chen
Space and Place
by Yi-Fu Tuan