ArtAsiaPacific NO. 58 MAY/JUN 2008

10 EDITOR'S LETTER

NEWS & OPINION

STATE OF THE ART

58 OVER THE TANGGULA PASS: LIU XIAODONG'S PAINTINGS OF TIBET

NEWS

87 BEIJING Sudden Departure at New Ullens Center WELLINGTON One Day Sculpture One Day at a Time 88 HONG KONG Fashion House Brings Artists Together Under Curvilinear Roof SYDNEY Australian Collector Parts with Massive Contemporary Trove 89 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Auction Report: Correction, Not a Correction 92 NEW YORK Political Video Installation by Iraqi Artist Censored SAN FRANCISCO New Director at the ASian Art Museum of San Francisco 93 HONG KONG Hong Kong Welcomes New Art Fair 94 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Art Fair Report: A Caravan of White Cubes 96 PASSINGS Kazuo Shiraga, 1924-2008 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Round Up: Censorship Issues 97 WHISPERING GALLERY

THE POINT

99 ORIGINS OF THE CHINESE AVANT-GARDE

BEHIND THE WALLS

100 SUNDARAM TAGORE: The Business of Cultural Diplomacy

PROFILE

102 FRANK COHEN: Do-It-Yourself

108 SHARMINI PEREIRA: Art Books as Artworks

ONE ON ONE

106 LANCE FUNG: Collective Wisdom

110 SAM KELLER: From Miami Beach to Mumbai

FEATURES

114 SQUARE WORDS, ROUND PARADIGMS: CONTEMPORARY CALLIGRAPHY IN CHINA by Eric Wear

122 ARCHITECTURE IN SCRIPT: FROM WITHOUT BOUNDARY TO ARCHIVE FEVER by Gregory Galligan

130 TEXT APPEAL: AUSTRALASIAN TEXT IN IMAGES by George Alexander

136 YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES: FLASH-FLOOD by Lauren Cornell

142 YOKO ONO: THE ARTIST IN HER UNFINISHED AVANT-GARDEN by HG Masters

150 TSANG KIN-WAH: STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Andrew Maerkle

REVIEWS

168 NEW PLYMOUTH "Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action"

SYDNEY Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy

169 TOKYO Tadashi Kawamata

170 SHANGHAI Qiu Anxiong

BANGKOK "Brand New"

171 MUMBAI Praneet Soi

NAPLES "Footprints Into the Future"

172 BERN "Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art"

173 ANTWERP "Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture"

LONDON "Good Morning, Mr. Nam June Paik!"

174 NEW YORK Xu Zhen

175 SAN FRANCISCO Zhan Wang

BOOK REVIEW

176 ARCHITECTURE: Modernism Alive and Well

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING

187 ISE: A Republic of His Own

WHERE I WORK

188 FARHAD MOSHIRI