ArtAsiaPacific NO. 56 NOV/DEC 2007

EDITOR'S LETTER 8

NEWS & OPINION

STATE OF THE ART

PAKISTAN GOES GLOBAL! 76

NEWS

BEIJING ULLENS CENTER OPENS IN BEIJING WITH '85 NEW WAVE 83 SHANGHAI ACCESSIBLE ART MAKES MARK ON SHANGHAI 84 MIAMI MURAKAMI'S GEISAI FESTIVAL REEMERGES IN MIAMI AFTER YEARLONG HIATUS 84 VARIOUS LOCATIONS ARTISTS ROLL

THROUGH AUTUMN AWARD SEASON 85 NEW YORK NEW NEIGHBORS BRING CHINESE STARS TO NEW YORK 85 SHANGHAI SHCONTEMPORARY SERVES UP ASIAN MATCH POINT 86 SYDNEY ASIA-AUSTRALIA ARTS CENTRE NAMES NEW DIRECTOR 86 NEW YORK ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR DEBUTS IN NEW YORK 87 NEW YORK & HONG KONG AUCTION UPDATE: BARELY COVERED 88 BEIRUT PUBLIC OUTCRY SWAYS LEBANON CENSORS 90 PASSINGS TSANG TSOU-CHOI, 1922-2007 90 WHISPERING GALLERY 91

THE POINT
POISON IVY: CLEANING UP A KOREAN ART CONSPIRACY 95

PROFILE
SOTEHBY'S OLD CATEGORY NEW HAND: ROXANE ZAND 96 MUTATIONS AND PERMUTATIONS: GU WENDA 100 QUEEN OF SEOUL: HYUNSOOK LEE 104

HOT SPOT
TEXT MESSAGES: ZINA KAYE, CAIA HAGEL & TIM GEORGESON 98

MUSEUM FEVER BREAKS OUT IN CHINA 106

THE BIG PICTURE
INTELLIGENT DESIGN: TOKYO INSTITUTIONS OPEN GATES TO ART CROSSOVERS 102

FEATURES
THE ART OF SURVIVAL: TEHCHING HSIEH By Paul Laster 116

POINT OF VIEW: MATTHEW NGUI By Gina Fairley 122

WAYWARD TANGENTS: LEE BUL By HG Masters 126

TRANSFORMATIVE VISION: BHARTI KHER By Minhazz Majumdar 134

ART IN REVERSE: PAUL CHAN By Rachel Kent 140

FIRE IN THE BELLY: RANJANI SHETTAR By Devika Singh 144

BACKWARD PROGRESS: THE LONG MARCH PROJECT By Andrew Maerkle 150

REVIEWS
TOKYO Shimabuku 160 TAIPEI "Stroll" 160 SHANGHAI "Reversing Horizons" 161 BEIJING "Lhasa" 162 HONG KONG John Young 162 BANGKOK Montri Toemsombat 163 MUMBAI "PINK" 163 PARIS "!NDIA!" 164 DUBLIN Nalini Malani 165 NEW YORK "Journeys" 165 NEW YORK "Sultana's Dream" 166 DALLAS U-Ram Choe 167 LOS ANGELES Song Kun 167 SAN FRANCISCO Shi Guorui 168

FILM REVIEW
PERSEPOLIS 169

BOOK REVIEW
THE RICHNESS OF LIFE: THE PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ARTIST LIU XIAODONG 1984-2006 170

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING
CHU YUN: Lost Before the Object 179

WHERE I WORK
RAQIB SHAW 180