ArtAsiaPacific No.24, 1999

Commentary

22 ASIA AS AN ART MUSEUM The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum – Makoto Murata

24 ASIA AS A STATE OF MIND The First Fukuoka Triennale of Asian Art – Robert J. Fouser

26 CULTURAL MYTHOLOGIES Art from India in Tokyo – Hisashi Muroi

28 FROM THE OUTSIDE IN ‘Inside Out: New Chinese Art’ – Jonathan Goodman

31 A THIRD SPACE ‘Inside Out: New Chinese Art’ – Lydia Yee

34 PUSHING BOUNDARIES The “Inside Out” symposium – YiLing Mao

36 SLOWNESS OF SPEED Korean art on tour in Australia – Rachel Kent

38 BLURRING THE EDGES Three exhibitions in New York – Joan Kee

40 ARTIS PRO ACTIV Malaysian artists take a stand – Lee Weng Choy

Essays

42 STATIC INTERFERENCE The Big Tail Elephant Group of Guangzhou – Melissa Chiu

48 WINDOWS ON LIFE The art of Nguyen Minh Thanh – Natalia Kraevskaia

54 SIGN OF THE TIMES Masato Nakamura and command N – Yukiko Shikata

60 THE PERFORMANCE OF PRINTMAKING Three Thai artists – Anne Kirker

66 THE BEAUTY OF RUPTURE Artists of Asian descent and Canadian identity – Keith Wallace

74 RHYTHMIC AIR The fine art of Savanhdary Vongpoothorn – Hannah Fink

79 A PARTICULAR LANGUAGE Contemporary artists of Pakistan – Quddus Mirza

Reviews

Benjamin Genocchio on Djamu Gallery; Jonathan Goodman on Yayoi Kusama; Robert Preece on ‘New Colours from Old Worlds: Contemporary Art from Oceania’; Collette Chattopadhyay on Mariko Mori; Morris O’Riordan on ‘Devotion: the Religious, the Domestic, the Pacific’; Gregory Galligan on Maya Lin.