EDITOR'S LETTER
Life Studies
BY
Elaine W. Ng
ESSAYS
The Loaded Brush
BY
George Alexander
NEWS
Taipei: Cai Guo-Qiang and Cloud Gate Collaborate
BY
David Frazier
Ho Chi Minh’s Saigon Open City
BY
Elaine W. Ng
Cuenca: Palestine Panel Convenes in Cuenca
BY
Anrew Maerkle
Shanghai: Duolun MOMA Meltdown – Bleak Outlook for State Museums
BY
Rebacca Catching
Tokyo Governor Criticized for Cultural Graft
BY
Andrew Maerkle
New York Encounters Tibetan Art
BY
Filippo Salviati
New York: MoMA to Present Kiarostami Retrospective
BY
Andy Cushman
New York: Pierre Huber Up for Grabs
BY
Elaine W. Ng
Passings: Matsuzawa Yutaka (1922-2006)
BY
Reiko Tomii
Passings: Jonathan Napack (1967-2007)
BY
Hou Hanru and Philip Tinari
Whispering Gallery
BY
DT
The Point: Cubism in Asia – Bound to History
BY
Ho Tzu Nyen
PROFILES
Yu Hong: Formal Twist
BY
Xenia Piëch
Michael Mel: Hearing Silenced Voices
BY
Pamela C. Rosi
Gordon Tsai’s Dream Community
BY
Susan Kendzulak
Wang Shu: Chinese Garden
BY
Alex Ulam
Cambridge: Pacific New Wave
BY
Giles Peterson
Shanghai: Modern Medicis Makeover Shanghai
BY
Rebecca Catching
FEATURES
Telling Selves & Talking Others
BY
Geremie R. Barmé
Atul Dodiya: Palimpsest / Forcefield
BY
Deepak Ananth
Yoshitomo Nara and Graf: Happy Together
BY
Yukie Kamiya
David Griggs: Blessed Grunge
BY
Gina Fairley
Gajin Fujita: Write or Die
BY
Jason Steuber
Wei Dong: Third Eye
BY
Andrew Maerkle
A Favorable Likeness: Bharti Kher, Liu Xiaodong, and Chung Suejin
BY
The Editor’s
REVIEWS
Sydney: Juan Davila
BY
George Alexander
Canberra: Michael Riley
BY
Michael Desmond
Tokyo: Atsushi Fukui
BY
Kenichi Kondo
Tokyo: Yasumasa Morimura
BY
Lucy Birmingham Fujii
Beijing: “Hungry God – Indian Contemporary Art”
BY
Carol Lu
Bangkok: Watchara Prayoonkum & Yan Lei
BY
Brian Mertens
Codroipo (Udine): “EurHope 1153”
BY
Luigi Fassi
Berlin: Yin Xiuzhen
BY
Astrid Mania
Hamburg: Walid Raad
BY
Belinda Grace Gardner
Paris: “Languages of the Desert – Contemporary Arab Art from the Gulf States”
BY
Maymanah Farhat
London: “Word into Art – Artists of the Modern Middle East”
BY
Maymanah Farhat
New York: Yang Fudong
BY
Andrew Maerkle
New York: Jonathan Meese & Tal R.
BY
Jessica Kraft
Philadelphia: Jean Shin
BY
Mutaza Vali
Film Review: Syndromes and a Century
BY
Adrian Martin
Book Review: Nine Lives – The Birth of Avante-Garde Art in New China
BY
Don J. Cohn
PROJECTS
Ben Quilty: Rising Son
BY
Michael Desmond
Where I Work: Noh Sang Kyoon
BY
Andrew Maerkle