Inside the Wang Contemporary, Alexander Wang’s New Cross-Disciplinary Arts Platform

New York’s Chinatown will gain a new art space and cultural organization this Lunar New Year with the opening of The Wang Contemporary in a newly restored historic bank at 58 Bowery. Fashion designer and cultural tastemaker Alexander Wang and his mother, businesswoman and philanthropist Ying Wang, purchased the building in 2025—the first time the property has been Chinese American-owned in its 100-year history. They were driven to acquire the bank by a shared desire to create a cross-disciplinary...