ArtAsiaPacific NO. 59 JUL/AUG 2008

12 EDITOR'S LETTER

NEWS & OPINION

STATE OF THE ART

58 COLLECTORS: DO NOT BOYCOTT CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART

NEWS

61 BEIJING Leading Chinese Artists Donate New Works to Earthquake Aid Auction NEW YORK ArtTable Honors Asia Society President 62 BEIRUT Beirut's Long-Awaited Home Works IV 63 NEW DELHI New Delhi's Performance Art Venue Celebrates its First Decade CARDIFF NS Harsha Wins Artes Mundi Prize 64 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Auction Report: Sales Make the World Go Round 66 WASHINGTON, DC Debate Over Chinese Sculptor's MLK Statue NEW DELHI Obscenity Charges Dismissed Against Famous Indian Painter 67 SYDNEY Police Seize Artist's Photographs of Naked Teenagers 68 HONG KONG Art Fair Report: Debut Art HK 08 Plays it Safe VARIOUS LOCATIONS Round Up: Smiles All Around 69 WHISPERING GALLERY

THE POINT

71 CHINA: A New Home for World Culture

BEHIND THE WALLS

78 ARNE GLIMCHER: A Titan in the Middle Kingdom

ONE ON ONE

82 JÉRÔME SANS: Open Doors, Open Arms

THE BIG PICTURE

84 UNITY IN DIVERSITY: The Formation of Modern Indonesian Art

HOT SPOT

86 MEKONG ART & CULTURE PROJECT: Bridging the Regional Divide

88 BIENNALE OF SYDNEY 2008: Revolutions - Forms That Turn

FEATURES

102 BEIJING BEFORE THE OLYMPICS: BUSINESS AS USUAL? by Angie Baecker and Graham Webster

110 MONA HATOUM: DOMESTIC INSECURITIES by HG Masters

118 DO-HO SUH: INFINITE POINTS OF CONTACT by Christine Starkman

126 AMAR KANWAR: THE COMPASS THAT KEEPS SPINNING by Devika Singh

132 MAKOTO AIDA: NO MORE WAR; SAVE WATER; DON'T POLLUTE THE SEA by Andrew Maerkle

SPECIAL SECTION

143 SHCONTEMPORARY 08: BEST OF DISCOVERY

REVIEWS

154 MELBOURNE Daniel Von Sturmer

155 TOKYO Tatsuo Miyajima

TAIPEI "Infantization"

156 BEIJING Geng Jianyi

KUALA LUMPUR Lynyrd Paras

157 NEW DELHI "Fluid Structures - Gender and Abstraction"

158 MUMBAI Nicola Durvasula

ISTANBUL "Istanbul Biennial: Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary"

159 BERLIN "Re-Imagining Asia"

160 LONDON Steve McQueen

MANCHESTER Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba

161 NEW YORK Daniel Bauer

162 NEW YORK An-My Lê

163 NEW YORK Sudarshan Shetty

BOOK REVIEW

164 WAYS OF BEING: Zao Wou-ki, Ma Liuming, Gao Yu

PROJECTS IN THE MAKING

170 ZHENG GUOGU: The Developer, the Architect, the Gardener & the Emperor

WHERE I WORK

172 SVAY KEN