As the world continues to celebrate the Lunar New Year, New Yorkers stand out for their vibrant festivities. An example of this is AX Mina’s visit to the Abrons Arts Center, where the annual mutual aid event and art exhibition take place. Titled ‘From Chinatown, with Love,’ the exhibition highlights the diverse queer and working-class art that defines the community, offering timely reflections on the significance of the Year of the Fire Horse.
On another note, recent airstrikes by Israel and the US on Tehran have resulted in damage to invaluable artifacts housed in the Golestan Palace, a historical site from the Qajar era. At the same time, a guerrilla installation known as the ‘Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame’ in Washington, DC, serves as a stark reminder of the underlying motives behind Trump’s initiation of this unnecessary conflict.
—Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor
