ArtAsiaPacific No.18, 1998

Commentary

20 THE VENICE BIENNALE Japan, Korea, and Taiwan – Rachel Kent

22 THE KWANGJU BIENNALE Unmapping the enmapped – Robert J. Fouser

24 THE ASEAN ART AWARDS The 1997 annual awards in Malaysia – Gregory Galligan

27 FIRE AND LIFE Kindling Australian-Indian cultural exchange – Courtney Kidd

30 THE EYE OF THE TIGER A survey of contemporary Korean art – Dominique Nahas

32 A NEW ICONOGRAPHY Indian women artists in exhibition – Geeti Sen

34 INDIAN HISTORIES The recent work of M.F. Husain – Daniel Herwitz

Essays

36 KHOVAR DREAMINGS Contemporary tribal art in South Bihar, India – Anne Loxley

42 TEXTILES OF TIMOR Cloth that binds across borders – James Bennett

48 WEAVING IMPRESSIONS The Bontoc people of the Philippines – Ana P. Labrador

54 MARO PAINTINGS OF IRIAN JAYA – Michael C. Howard

62 WE ARE THE ARTISTS OF TODAY Recent sculpture in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu – Susan Cochrane

68 NEGOTIATING ‘TRADITION’ The art of Lily Laita and Ani O’Neill – Karen Stevenson

74 THE WEAVINGS OF WAR Textiles from Vietnam, Laos and Thailand – Ariel Zeitlin Cooke

Art Directory

90 EXHIBITION REVIEWS Rachel Kent on Tatsuo Miyajima; Francesca Dal Lago on ‘Tracing Taiwan’; Jonathan Goodman on Cai Guo-Qiang; Melissa Chiu on ‘Vietnam Voices’; Steven Pettifor on Jakapan Vilasineekul; John Clark on Art & Place: Essays on art from a Hong Kong perspective; Yashodhara Dalmia on Ganga Devi: Tradition and expression in Mithila painting.