Melissa Chiu to head Hirshhorn Museum

Melissa Chiu has been appointed director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She is currently director of New York's Asia Society Museum and the institution's senior vice president for global arts and cultural programmes and has published extensively. Recent titles include Asia Art Now (Randon House and Thames & Hudson, 2010) and Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader (MIT Press, 2010), both co-authored with her husband Benjamin Genocchio.
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Melissa Chiu on Ai Weiwei and creative expression in China

Asia Society director Melissa Chiu reflects on the new parameters of creative expression in China as illustrated by the career of artist and activist Ai Weiwei. View video...