COMMENTARY
The Venice Biennale: Japan, Korea and Taiwan
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Rachel Kent
The Kwangju Biennale: Unmapping the enmapped
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Robert J. Fouser
The ASEAN Art Award: The 1997 annual awards in Malaysia
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Gregory Galligan
Fire and Life: Kindling Australian-Indian cultural exchange
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Courtney Kidd
The Eye of the Tiger: A survey of contemporary Korean art
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Dominique Nahas
A New Iconography: Indian Women artists in exhibition
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Geeti Sen
Indian Histories: The recent work of MF Husain
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Daniel Herwitz
ESSAYS
Khovar Dreamings: Contemporary tribal art in South Bihar, India
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Anne Loxley
Textiles of Timor: Cloth that binds across borders
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James Bennett
Weaving Impressions: The Bontoc people of the Philippines
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Ana P. Labrador
Maro Paintings of Irian Jaya
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Michael C. Howard
We are the Artists of Today: Recent sculpture in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
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Susan Cochrane
Negotiating “Tradition”: The art of Lily Laita and Ani O’Neill
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Karen Stevenson
The Weavings of War: Textiles from Vietnam, Laos and Thailand
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Ariel Zeitlin Cooke
ART DIRECTORY
Exhibition Commentary
Auction Reports: Hong Kong and Philippines
Gallery and Museum Guide: A comprehensive guide to the best Asian and Pacific art galleries and institutions
REVIEWS
Rachel Kent on Tatsuo Miyajima
Francesca Dal Lago on “Tracing Taiwan”
Melissa Chiu on “Vietnam Voices”
Steven Pettifor on Jakapan Vilasineekul
John Clark on Art & Place: Essays on art from a Hong Kong perspective
Yashodhara Dalmia on Ganga Devi: Tradition and expression in Mithila Painting