AAPI Month: 'City of Faith' exhibit opens at The Museum of the City of New York

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As we celebrate AAPI Heritage Month, CBS2 is shining a light on an exhibition honoring the art, activism and joy of the city's South Asian communities. DaveCarlinTV was given a gallery tour of a new exhibition at The Museum of the City of New York.

, CBS2 is shining a light on an exhibition honoring the art, activism and joy of the city's South Asian communities.Our guide was Dr. Azra Dawood, the exhibition curator foran art show focusing primarily on South Asian-American communities.

"The mix of fragrances is frankincense, musk, Sandalwood, and Rose and the intention is to be really bold about fragrance and to celebrate it and use it to kind of think critically about the long history of Muslims in the U.S.," Dawood said.We were shown a series of five portraits. Dawood explained they"focus on Sikh New Yorkers," adding,"Sikh Americans were some of the first South Asians to arrive on this land.

 

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