EDITOR'S LETTER
The Flight of Icarus
BY
Elaine W. Ng
ESSAYS
Xing Danwen’s Chinese Fantasy
BY
Andrew Maerkle
NEWS
New York: Alexandra Munroe Named First Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Guggenheim
BY
Eric C. Shiner
Echigo-Tsumari: Sustainable Art in Rural Japan – Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006
BY
Andrew Maerkle
Various Locations: Spring Auction Report
BY
Don J. Cohn
Helsinki: Finnish Takes on Contemporary Art – ARS 06 Pumps Asia
BY
Andrew Maerkle
Various Locations: Curators Makes Moves – Round Up
BY
Andrew Maerkle
London: Changing the Guard at Trafalgar Square
BY
Sara Raza
Beijing: Max Protetch and Leng Lin Commune in Beijing
BY
Andrew Maerkle and Carol Lu
Various Locations: Asia Society Hits Hong Kong, Houston, Mumbai
BY
Harry Perlmutter
Passings: Nam June Paik (1932-2006)
BY
Elaine W. Ng
Whispering Gallery
BY
DT
The Point: Takashi Murakami’s Lowbrow Launch
BY
Kenichi Kondo
PROFILES
A Small World, After All
BY
Lakshmi Kumar
Shanghai Tang: Design Entanglements
BY
Don J. Cohn
Making Contact: The Biennale of Sydney
BY
Michael Desmond
Ishihara Tomoaki and Matsui Chie
BY
Eric C. Shiner
Issey Miyake
BY
Christine Temin
Thai Design Center Uncovers Riches in Gritty Native Soil
BY
Brian Mertens
PROFILE
Zeng Huanguang
BY
Lisa Norton
FEATURES
Building Asia Block by Block
BY
Andrew Maerkle and Harry Perlmutter
Cosmic Wonder: Not Your Everyday Cosmic Wonder
BY
Elaine W. Ng
Sretsis: Sisters of the Cloth
BY
Elaine W. Ng
United Bamboo: Fashion Creds
BY
Andrew Maerkle
Instituting Art in Istanbul
BY
Murtaza Vali
Yoshio Taniguchi: Transforming Trash and Treasure
BY
Christine Temin
FETURES
Manish Arora: Manish Mania
BY
Deeksha Nath
REVIEWS
Dunedin: Donal Fitzpatrick
BY
Leoni Schmidt
Singapore: Dana Lam
BY
Ho Tzu Nyen
Shanghai: Chen Zhen
BY
Amy Wood
Hong Kong: Fung Ming Chip
BY
Caroline Chiu
New Delhi: Atul Dodiya
BY
Deeksha Nath
Tel Aviv: Rona Yefman
BY
Jessica Kraft
Berlin: “Contemporary Arab Representations”
BY
Astrid Mania
Málaga: Runa Islam
BY
Sara Raza
Blackburn: The 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial
BY
Bridget Crone
New York: “Moving Time”
BY
Harry Perlmutter
New York: “Without Boundary”
BY
Murtaza Vali
New York: Guy Ben-Ner
BY
Andrew Maerkle
Boston: Shintaro Miyake
BY
Lyssa Paluay
Houston: Mel Chin
BY
Anjali Gupta
Film Review: Paradise Now
BY
Jessica Kraft
Book Review: The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture
BY
Andrew Maerkle
PROJECTS
Gemma Kahng’s Fashion Campaign
BY
Eric C. Shiner
Where I Work: Wilson Shieh
BY
Caroline Chiu