Art AsiaPacific #43 Winter 2005

Editor’s Letter 8

HAPPENINGS

EVENTS
Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954-1968, at Grey Art Gallery14
Do a Book: Asian Artists Summer Project 2004, at Plum Blossoms Gallery 15

STATE OF THE ART
Cashing In, Cashing Out 17

NEWS
New York, An Utterly Modern MoMA 18 New York, Asia Society Selects New Leadership 19 New York, Rirkrit Tiravanija Awarded 2004 Hugo Boss Prize 19 Jakarta, Imagining Jakarta 20 Clinton, Maya Lin's Riggio-Lynch Chapel 20 Venice, Spanish Duo to Direct Biennale di Venezia 2005 21 Bangkok, Jim Thompson Center Opens with Pinare Sanpitak 21

PROFILE
Takashi Miike 24 Ahuja Art Collection 42

HOT SPOT
Nature Morte 32 Queensland Art Gallery 34 Timezone 8 40

THE POINT
A Touch of Crass 30

ONE ON ONE
Bubblyfish 38

THE BIG PICTURE
Culture Through the Burning Glass: West Kowloon Cultural District 26

FEATURES

LIDA ABDUL: BY INVITATION ONLY by Sara Raza 46

A BEAUTIFUL HORROR by Paul Laster 51

FROM LOVER TO FOE AND BACK AGAIN by Bridget L. Goodbody 58

CHINESE TRADITION IN THE MODERN WORLD by Paul Serfaty 64

BETTER LIVING BY DESIGN: THE ARCHITECTURE OF GEOFFREY BAWA by Rupert Winchester 68

REVIEWS

TOKYO KITTY EX__74 TOKYO Roppongi Crossing__74 KAGAWA Darkness of Girlhood and Lightness of Aging__75 SHANGHAI SPACE anew__76 HONG KONG Manfred Schoeni__76 JAKARTA Semsar Siahaan__77 SINGAPORE Vincent Leow__77 SEOUL Gimhongsok & Kim Sora__78 AUCKLAND The Tale of Ray__78 BERLIN Far Near Distance: Contemporary Positions of Iranian Artists__79 MANCHESTER Cai Yuan & JJ Xie__79 SAN FRANCISCO Michael Lin & Wu Mali__80 SANTA MONICA Goghwen Lee__80 LOS ANGELES Hee Ouk Kim__81 CHICAGO Jitish Kallat__81 ANN ARBOR Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US__82 ITHACA Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention__83 NEW YORK Xiaoze Xie__84 NEW YORK Gen’ichiro Inokuma__84 NEW YORK Pushpamala N__85 NEW YORK DoDo Jin Ming__86 NEW YORK Atsuko Tanaka__86 NEW YORK Time Chapter: Chelsea__87 NEW YORK An-My LêBOOK

REVIEW

Reflex: Contemporary Japanese Self-Portraiture 88

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING Rajkamal Kahlon 96