In my first feature for Apollo magazine, I reported on how the Asia Society is marking its 70th year. You can read the story online and in print:

When John D. Rockefeller III founded the Asia Society in New York in 1956, many Americans associated Asian countries with war and political upheaval. … He felt that art and culture were powerful conduits for developing what he called “person-to-person” experiences. “Good relations on this level are necessary if we are to strengthen friendship bonds with that region of the world,” he said in an interview with the International News Service in 1957.