ArtAsiaPacific No.33, 2002

Essays

20 49th VENICE BIENNALE Northern Hemisphere blues – Susan Acret

23 CENTURY CITY Art and Culture in the modern metropolis – Antonia Carver

26 PUBLIC OFFERINGS Breakthrough works by emerging artists – Collette Chattopadhyay

28 AH XIAN Recent works in porcelain – Linda Jaivin

31 TRACEY MOFFATT Mid-career survey exhibition – M.A. Greenstein

33 MEDIUM(S) Asian-American artists – Dan S. Wang

35 CONFUCIAN FEMINISTS Art as social protest – Linda Choy

Commentary

38 ATUL DODIYA The possibilities of political art – Ranjit Hoskote

46 STATUTORY OBLIGATIONS The performances of Tehching Hsieh – Ray Langenbach

54 IMRAN QURESHI – Virginia Whiles

62 LAURENCE ABERHART Macau and China – John Batten

68 THE ART OF WANG ZHIYUAN A state of flux – Claire Roberts

76 ROBIN KAHUKIWA Nurturing Maori Identity – Jo Diamond

Reviews

Mathieu Borysevicz on China: The Photographs of Lois Conner; Iola Lenzi on Wang Guangyi; Brian Mertens on Pinaree Sanpitak; Laura Fan on Nadia Bamadhaj; Bronwyn Mahoney on Peng Hung-chih; Kati Hill on Chen Zhen; Hou Hanru with a tribute to Chen Zhen; David Birch on focas.