This week on SundayArts, tune in to THIRTEEN at noon to see Melissa Chiu interview musician Tan Dun, catch a look at the Neue Gallery, and watch SundayArts News and as well as a feature length arts presentation.

Melissa Chiu sits down with the artist Chuck Close. Born in Monroe, Washington in 1940, Close started his career at the age of 5. He embarked on a diverse creative path, making a major breakthrough on the New York art scene of the 1960s. Close developed his own distinctive photorealist style, embodied in the massive-scale [...]

The artist Antony Gormley is interviewed by Melissa Chiu, director of the Asia Society Museum. Gormley’s sculpture has been exhibited throughout the UK and abroad. Gormley’s U.S. debut, “Event Horizon,” can been seen throughout the city, if you know where to look.

Melissa Chiu sits down with Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat. In the 90′s, Neshat made her mark in the art world with her intriguingly beautiful still images, “Women of Allah,” which combines photographs of Iranian women mixed with Persian calligraphy. She has just released her first feature film, “Women without Men.”

SundayArts – THIRTEEN’S unique broadcast and online showcase for the arts – adds its newest correspondent, Melissa Chiu, in March 2010. Chiu will conduct a series of interviews with tastemakers in the arts who are multi-generational and culturally diverse; her interviews will focus on the compelling life stories of her subjects, who include The Nose [...]

New SundayArts correspondent Melissa Chiu interviews artist, filmmaker and director William Kentridge. An exhibition of his artwork and animation is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art. In addition, he is here in New York right now for the NY premiere of Shostakovich’s The Nose at the Metropolitan Opera House. He has provided [...]

Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-War America examines the intersection of history, international relations, personal relationships and art collecting through a rich display of more than eighty exceptional objects from Asia Society’s jewel-like permanent collection, as well as several objects on loan from the Cleveland Museum of Art. From 1963 to 1978, John D. Rockefeller [...]