Asia After Dark | Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean
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Join us after hours to experience the largest bronze ever cast in Southeast Asia, enriched by spotlight talks and followed by a dance performance, a short film screening, and an artist conversation. This event celebrates our exhibition Vishnu’s Cosmic Ocean!
Get exclusive insights on this monumental masterpiece of Cambodian artistry through spotlight talks by curator Emma Natalya Stein, filmmaker praCh Ly, and professor Vasudha Narayanan. Then enjoy the dance performance choreographed by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro and inspired by the bronze Vishnu. Watch a special screening of the short film by Cambodian American director praCh Ly about the present-day community of the bronze’s original temple. And finish off the night with a conversation with the filmmaker, the choreographer, and the curator.
Schedule In-Gallery Spotlight Talks
Gallery 22
5:30–7 p.m. Dance Performance ផ្គុំ/PKUM
Meyer Auditorium
7:30 p.m. Screening of Awkun
Meyer Auditorium
8 p.m. …
Venue: Asian Art Museum. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium, Gallery 22. Cost: Free. Register in advance (recommended). Get Tickets/Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1991206044882?aff=oddtdtcreator. Categories: After Five. Performances. Gallery Talks & Tours. Related Events: Curator Tour | Vishnu's Cosmic Ocean. Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible.
Friday, July 17, 2026, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Hard Target
Live DJ Accompaniment by DJ 2Tone
We close out our John Woo Summer with another Can I Kick It? event, as DJ 2Tone of Shaolin Jazz spins along with Woo’s Hollywood debut, Hard Target.
Jean-Claude Van Damme stars as mullet-haired New Orleans former marine and drifter Chance Boudreaux. He saves a woman named Natasha (Yancy Butler) from a gang of thugs and then agrees to help her search for her unhoused father, who has gone missing. They discover a dastardly operation that lets rich men pay to hunt down and kill homeless men, led by Lance Henriksen as scenery-chewing Emil Fouchon. The resulting mayhem is Woo turned up to eleven as he applies his Hong Kong-honed action skills to a Hollywood-sized budget, with countless explosions and astonishing death-defying stunts from Van Damme.
Director: John Woo. Country: United States. Released: 1993. Length: 97 min. Format: Blu-Ray. Language: English. Image courtesy of Swank Motion Pictures.
Venue: Asian Art Museum. Building: West Building. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free. Register in advance (recommended). Get Tickets/Register: https://woonmaa.eventive.org/films. Categories: Films. After Five. Performances. Accessibility: Assisted listening devices. Wheelchair accessible.
Friday, August 14, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:45 PM.