Oscar Tang Foundation

02/21/2025

With major gifts to leading arts institutions, Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu‐Tang have recently landed in the center of New York cultural philanthropy.

01/13/2025

After 220 years of existence, New-York Historical Society is changing its name to the New York Historical, and will christen a new wing devoted to American democracy after H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang and Oscar L. Tang, in honor of their $20 million gift, the museum announced on Sunday.

12/25/2024

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12/02/2024

Asia Society celebrated its groundbreaking spring exhibition, Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia, with a dazzling Tang Dynasty Ball co-chaired by Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang. Guests took a musical and culinary journey reflecting the maritime Silk Route that connected northern China to present-day Iran and Iraq.

Guests were treated to an early Tang Dynasty musical performance from the Siong Leng Musical Association, who were in town for their first-ever performance in the United States. Siong Leng was founded to promote and preserve ancient Nanyin music from southern Fujian Province. The evening ended with dessert and dancing to swinging jazz from the George Gee Orchestra in the Garden Court, a nod to the famous 1920s and 1930s jazz clubs of Shanghai.

Secrets of the Sea is the first U.S. exhibition of the remarkable luxury cargo from a ninth-century shipwreck discovered off the coast of Belitung Island in the Java Sea. Bound for present-day Iran and Iraq, it is the earliest ship found in Southeast Asia thus far and provides proof of active maritime trade in the ninth century among China, Southeast Asia, and West Asia.

Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia is co-organized by Asia Society and the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore. Objects are from the Khoo Teck Puat Gallery, Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore. The Tang Shipwreck Collection was made possible by the generous donation of the Estate of Khoo Teck Puat in honor of the late Khoo Teck Puat.

10/25/2024

Skidmore College Life Trustee Oscar Tang, husband of the late Frances Young Tang ’61, father of Kristin Tang ’92, and president of The Tang Fund, is continuing his family’s legacy of transformational giving to Skidmore College with a gift to establish the Frances Young Tang ’61 Professorship in Economics and Asian Studies. The endowed fund will support a new faculty position that will be a dual appointment to the Economics Department and Asian Studies Program, with teaching duties focused on economics courses relating to China and Asia.

Skidmore’s Asian Studies Program is one of the oldest in the country. Courses in Asian studies were first offered at Skidmore in the 1950s, and it became an independent program in the 1960s. Today, students have the option to major or minor in Asian studies.

“The Tang family’s commitment to Asian studies at prestigious institutions such as Princeton, Columbia, and Berkeley is unparalleled. Skidmore is honored to now extend new, expanded opportunities to the next generation of students and scholars on our campus,” said Conner. “Endowed gifts such as this have an immediate impact, but they also serve as a powerful promise to our future.”

09/16/2024

The Tangs have a big heart

08/22/2024

Oscar Tang and his wife, Agnes Hsu-Tang, have made significant charitable contributions recently. One of their most notable donations is a **$125 million gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art** in New York. This donation is the largest in the museum's history and will fund the renovation of the Modern Wing, which will be renamed the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing

Additionally, they have donated **$40 million to the New York Philharmonic** to establish the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Music and Artistic Director Chair

These contributions highlight their ongoing commitment to supporting the arts and cultural institutions. Is there a specific aspect of their philanthropy you're particularly interested in?

08/15/2024

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08/02/2024

06/24/2024

Asia Society celebrated "Secrets of the Sea: A Tang Shipwreck and Early Trade in Asia" with a Tang Dynasty Ball co-chaired by Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang. The event showcased remarkable luxury cargo from a ninth-century shipwreck discovered off the coast of Belitung Island in the Java Sea. The exhibition is the first U.S. exhibition of its kind and provides proof of active maritime trade in the ninth century among China, Southeast Asia, and West Asia.

05/10/2024

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it has raised $550 million in private donations for the Museum’s new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing, named in recognition of the couple’s historic lead gift of $125 million

05/02/2024

Mr. Tang was born in Shanghai. In 1949, at the end of the Chinese civil war, his parents fled to Hong Kong. He was sent to school in the United States at the age of 11 and subsequently attended Phillips Academy, Andover. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Yale University and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.

04/27/2024

In 2014, he donated an additional $15 million to Andover to establish the Tang Institute at Andover. At the Rectory School in Pomfret, Connecticut, Tang donated the P.Y and Kinmay Tang Performing Arts Center and has created the Tang Family Endowment for Excellence in Teaching with $5 million.

In June 2016, Tang was honored by the Metropolitan Museum with its Business Committee Civic Leadership Award for his service and contribution as a longtime trustee and philanthropist

04/17/2024

Skidmore College Life Trustee Oscar Tang, husband of the late Frances Young Tang ’61, father of Kristin Tang ’92, and president of The Tang Fund, is continuing his family’s legacy of transformational giving to Skidmore College with a gift to establish the Frances Young Tang ’61 Professorship in Economics and Asian Studies. The endowed fund will support a new faculty position that will be a dual appointment to the Economics Department and Asian Studies Program, with teaching duties focused on economics courses relating to China and Asia.
The Tang Fund is furthering the family’s exceptional support of Asian studies at Skidmore with generous gifts in support of the existing Tang Family Chinese Studies Endowment Fund as well as to establish the Frances Young Tang ’61 Asian Studies Program Endowment Fund.

“In recognition of the Tang family’s exceptional support of Asian studies at Skidmore, I am pleased to share that Skidmore’s Asian Studies Program will be named The Frances Young Tang ’61 Program in Asian Studies,” said President Marc C. Conner. “We are very proud of this interdisciplinary program, which has been an integral part of our curriculum for over 70 years.”

Skidmore’s Asian Studies Program is one of the oldest in the country. Courses in Asian studies were first offered at Skidmore in the 1950s, and it became an independent program in the 1960s. Today, students have the option to major or minor in Asian studies

04/11/2024

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