NEWS & OPINION

STATE OF THE ART

70 BIDDING FOR THE COLLECTIVE

NEWS

74 TEXAS Texas Festival Fetes Chinese Photography BEIJING Indonesian Collector, Singapore Art Museum Touch Down in Beijing 76 MANCHESTER Asian Art Triennial Launches in Manchester 77 TAIPEI Taipei Biennial Finds Bearings with Art Compass CHICAGO Indian Artist Commemorates Holocaust with New Commission 78 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Auction Forecast: The Year of the (Mickey) Maos 80 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Touring Festival Provides Meeting Point for West Asian Artists PASSINGS Sadanand K Bakre, 1920-2007 81 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Round Up: Women Steal the Headlines PASSINGS Ismail Gulgee, 1926-2007 82 PASSINGS Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, 1957-2007 83 WHISPERING GALLERY

THE POINT

87 THE VIRTUAL MUSE AND HER TAXMAN

HOT SPOT

88 ANYANG PUBLIC ART PROJECT: Out of Thin Air

90 MUSEUMSTAN: Central Asia's Contemporary Art Revolution

THE BIG PICTURE

92 THE ART OF CORRUPTION Thai Artists Take on Politics

PROFILE

94 STILL EVOLVING: SH Raza

96 BREATHE DEEP, SUPER LIGHT AND SPARKLING: Yan Lei

FEATURES

98 THE ART OF WAR: CAI GUO-QIANG by Don J. Cohn

106 PARADISE FOUND & LOST: SALIMA HASHMI by Murtaza Vali

110 LANDSCAPES OF REMEMBRANCE: LIDA ABDUL by Rebecca Catching

116 MORTIS EX MACHINA: SHAUN GLADWELL by Gina Fairley

120 WHY GO TO TIBET? QIU ZHIJIE IN SHANGRI-LA by Meg Maggio

126 TIBETAN CONTEMPORARY ART: BEYOND THE CULTURAL MASK by Eliza Gluckman

REVIEWS

140 SYDNEY "News from Islands"

TOKYO Chim↑Pom

141 SHANGHAI "Soft Power: Asian Attitude"

BEIJING Anish Kapoor

142 HONG KONG Wilson Shieh

143 BANGKOK Sopheap Pich

MUMBAI / NEW DELHI Gargi Raina

144 MUMBAI Ratheesh T

MILAN "Indian Art Now"

145 LUXEMBOURG Manuel Ocampo

146 NEW YORK Huma Bhabha

NEW YORK Mala Iqbal

147 NEW YORK Yang Jiechang

BOOK REVIEW

148 CLOTH BOUND EXHIBITIONS: Makoto Aida: Monument for Nothing; Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Retrospective (tomorrow is another fine day);

User's Manual: Contemporary Art in Turkey (1986-2006)

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING

159 SARA RAHBAR: Weaving the Flag

WHERE I WORK

160 DAVID DIAO