EDITOR'S LETTER
Between the Lines
BY
Franklin Sirmans
NEWS
The Cult of Murakami
Wild Style in Japan
BY
Charlie Ahearn
The New Mori Museum
BY
Laura Kateri Leung
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum
BY
Britta Erickson
Mapping A Body Politic
BY
Sarita Malik
Alex Lee and Jeannie Ho
BY
The Editors
Blaxploitation Meets 20th Century Chinoiserie: Interview with Christine Y. Kim
BY
Franklin Sirmans
Is There Poetic Justice After Dreams and Conflicts: The Istanbul Biennial
BY
Dominique Nahas
The Point: Chinese artists and the marketplace
BY
Lilly Wei
The Hot Spot: New Art Spaces in Beijing
BY
Chin-Chin Yap
FEATURES
My Generation: Revolutions Per Minute: Glenn Kaino
BY
Eungie Joo
A Canal with a View: Venice
BY
Benjamin Genocchio
Parallel Lives: Montien Boonma and Chen Zhen
BY
Eleanor Heartney
The Big Picture: The Control of Fear
BY
Alexandra Chang
A Stitch in Time: Kim Sooja
BY
Jonathan Goodman
Reel Cinema
BY
Alexandra Chang
Weaving History: Dinh Q. Le
BY
David Spaulding
REVIEWS
City of God
BY
Jen Budney
“Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art”
BY
Eungie Joo
Do-Ho Suh
BY
Shinyoung Chung
“Grid”
BY
Rifky Effendy
“Liquid Sea”
BY
Adam Geczy
Yang Jiechang
BY
Adam Geczy
“+64, Phone Home”
BY
Astrid Mania
“Alors la Chine?”
BY
Thomas J. Berghuis
Takashi Murakami
BY
Midori Yoshimoto
“Contemporary Asian Photography”
BY
Merrily Kerr
Mel Chin
BY
Franklin Sirmans
In-Hyung Kim & Jian-Jun Zhang
BY
Xenia Tetmajer von Przerwa
“Commodification of Buddhism”
BY
Midori Yoshimoto
“Shuffling the Deck”
BY
Jonathan Goodman
How Latitudes Become Forms: Art in a Global Age
BY
Clara Kim
“The History of Japanese Photography”
BY
Reena Jana
On the Mid-Ground: Selected Texts By Hou Hanru
BY
Carolee Thea