EDITOR’S LETTER 8

HAPPENINGS

STATE OF THE ART

THE LOADED BRUSH 46

NEWS
TAIPEI CAI GUO-QIANG AND CLOUD GATE COLLABORATE 49 HO CHI MINH CITY HO CHI MINH'S SAIGON OPEN CITY 50 CUENCA PALESTINE PANEL CONVERGES IN CUENCA 50 SHANGHAI DUOLUN MOMA MELTDOWN: BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR STATE MUSEUMS 51 TOKYO TOKYO GOVERNOR CRITICIZED FOR CULTURAL GRAFT 51 NEW YORK NEW YORK ENCOUNTERS TIBETAN ART 52 NEW YORK PIERRE HUBER UP FOR GRABS PASSINGS MATSUZAWA YUTAKA, 1922-2006 53 PASSINGS JONATHAN NAPACK, 1967-2007 54 WHISPERING GALLERY 55

THE POINT
CUBISM IN ASIA: BOUND TO HISTORY 58

HOT SPOT
GORDON TSAI'S DREAM COMMUNITY 61 PACIFIC NEW WAVE 66 MODERN MEDICIS MAKEOVER SHANGHAI 68

PROFILE
YU HONG: FORMAL TWIST 59 MICHAEL MEL: HEARING SILENCED VOICES 60

ONE ON ONE
WANG SHU'S CHINESE GARDEN 64

FEATURES
TELLING SELVES & TALKING OTHERS BY GEREMIE R. BARME 72
ATUL DODIYA: PALIMPSEST/FORCEFIELD BY DEEPAK ANANTH 76
YOSHITOMO NARA AND GRAF: HAPPY TOGETHER BY YUKIE KAMIYA 80
DAVID GRIGGS: BLESSED GRUNGE BY GINA FAIRLEY 84
GAJIN FUJITA: WRITE OR DIE BY JASON STEUBER 88
WEI DONG: THIRD EYE BY ANDREW MAERKLE 92
A FAVORABLE LIKENESS: BHARTI KHER, LIU XIAODONG, CHUNG SUEJIN 96

REVIEWS
SYDNEY JUAN DAVILA_102 CANBERRA MICHAEL RILEY: SIGHTS UNSEEN_102 TOKYO ATSUSHI FUKUI: THE EYES OF THE MIDNIGHT_03 TOKYO YASUMASA MORIMURA: SEASONS OF PASSION/A REQUIEM: CHAPTER 1_104 BEIJING HUNGRY GOD: INDIAN CONTEMPORARY ART_105 BANGKOK WATCHARA PRAYOONKUM & YAN LEI: 9.09.2549: CENTURIES RE-OBSERVED_105 CODROIPO (UDINE) EURHOPE 1153: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM BOSPHORUS_105 BERLIN YIN XIUZHEN: INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL 1_106 HAMBURG WALID RAAD: (LET'S BE HONEST, THE WEATHER HELPED)_107 PARIS LANGUAGES OF THE DESERT: CONTEMPORARY ARAB ART FROM THE GULF STATES_107 LONDON WORD INTO ART: ARTISTS OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST_108 NEW YORK YANG FUDONG: NO SNOW ON THE BROKEN BRIDGE_109 NEW YORK JONATHAN MEESE AND TAL R: MOTHER_109 PHILADELPHIA JEAN SHIN: TEXTILE_120

FILM REVIEW
SYDROMES AND A CENTURY 112

BOOK REVIEW
NINE LIVES: THE BIRTH OF AVANT-GARDE ART IN NEW CHINA 114

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING
BEN QUILTY: RISING SON 123

WHERE I WORK
NOH SANG KYOON 124