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, 10:30am-6:00pm. 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:
Crude
LAHORE BIENNALE 01 Reader
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Samson Young’s Art Journey
Water Diary in New York
Avatopology Volume I
Terra Nullius: A Bibliography of Lava
Archive in the Cloud
Assembled in the Margins: An inexhaustible index of Asian Artist Collectives
Yee I-Lann: Tabled
Pacita Abad: A Million Things To Say
Asia Society Triennial: 2020-2021, We Do Not Dream Alone
Magnetic Writing / Marching Ideas, Works on Paper/磁性書寫—念念之間 紙上作品專題展
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now
Storytellers of Art Histories: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life (Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series)
T. Shanaathanan - The Incomplete Thombu
The A To Z Of Conflict
Abstract Speaking: Sharing Uncertainty and Collective Acts
Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space
Asia As Method: Towards Deimperialization
Cities on the Move
Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion
Tables | Factories
Lovely Daze Issue 7: Good Intentions Lead to Hell?
She never rode that trishaw again/她从此以后不再搭那辆三轮车了
What if
Avatopology Volume I
Assembled in the Margins: An inexhaustible index of Asian Artist Collectives
Archive in the Cloud
Terra Nullius: A Bibliography of Lava
Saleem Ahmed: Rani Road
by Saleem Ahmed
T. Shanaathanan - The Incomplete Thombu
She never rode that trishaw again/她从此以后不再搭那辆三轮车了
What if
Lovely Daze Issue 7: Good Intentions Lead to Hell?
Tables | Factories
PLAY AS OBJECT Vol.7: MOM & SON
The South Park
The Wandering Lake
How to disappear
Jobless
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now
Crude
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now
Century. Woman: Selected Works from the Exhibition / 世紀. 女性藝術展
Magnetic Writing / Marching Ideas, Works on Paper/磁性書寫—念念之間 紙上作品專題展
Radical Return / 文字的回返
a firetime story - notes to The Hidden South 「南方以南」展覽群記
Asia Society Triennial: 2020-2021, We Do Not Dream Alone
Beyond Codex: Living Archives
On Echoes of Invisible Hearts: Narratives of Yemeni Displacement
Kathmandu Triennale 2077
The Stars: 10 Years/星星十年
Silence Is Gold: Contemporary Myanmar Art After Political Changes 2015-2019
by Aung Myat Htay
A Journal of the Plague Year: Continental Fear, Islands, Ghosts, Rebels
10th Shanghai Biennale: Social Factory
LAHORE BIENNALE 01 Reader
Asia As Method: Towards Deimperialization
Punk Orientalism: The Art of Rebellion
Remembering LB City Vol.2: "Practice Practice Practice"
Vol 6: Carrier Bag Fiction
Decolonizing Culture
Unnamable: The Ends of Asian American Art
Little Did They Know: The Guest Programme of the 39th EVA International, Limerick, Ireland
Light Light
How to Mend: Motherhood and Its Ghosts
From Postwar to Postmodern, Art in Japan, 1945-1989: Primary Documents
Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art
Psychedelics and Technics
by Zheng Mahler
Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary (Objects/Histories)
by Margo Machida
Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970
Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art
The Intimacies of Four Continents
by Lisa Lowe
Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network
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
15 Invitations Dossiers: Rashid Rana
Time
Mongols, Turks, and Others
The Blacks of Premodern China (Encounters with Asia)
Debating Race in Contemporary India
Black Looks: Race and Representation
The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
The End of History and the Last Man
The King Never Smiles: A Biography of Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej
Under Discussion: The Encyclopedic Museum
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Samson Young’s Art Journey
Water Diary in New York
Abstract Speaking: Sharing Uncertainty and Collective Acts
Farah Al Qasimi: Hello Future
Amar Kanwar: Evidence
New Forest: A History of Cows
Yee I-Lann: Tabled
Pacita Abad: A Million Things To Say
Between Screenings 放映間
Wang Jinsong Solo Exhibition Scene Record/王勁松個展 現場跟踪
Minouk Lim: Mamour
Memories of West Lake: Wang Gongyi, 西湖志：王公懿
by Wang Gongyi
Agus Suwage: Room of Mine
Liu Dahong’s Textbook: Elementary Level (Lessons 1 to 27), 劉大鴻課本: 初級課程 (第一至二十七課)
Huang Rui – The Stars Period of 1977-1984
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
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
A Book of Beliefs
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
