ArtAsiaPacific NO. 61 NOV/DEC 2008

12 EDITORS' LETTER

NEWS

51 NEW YORK Blocked Loans to Asia Society 52 SYDNEY Australia's Resale Royalty Plan 53 BERLIN Indian Galleries in Germany SYDNEY Australian Auction Under Scrutiny 54 DELHI Husain Cleared of All Charges 55 LONDON Baghdad Artists Exhibit in London TEL AVIV Art TLV 56 HONG KONG Auctions for Non-Profits SINGAPORE Singapore Receives Major Gift 59 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Roundup 69 WHISPERING GALLERY

OPINION

61 WIDENING CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE

CULTURAL CURRENCY

63 AUCTION REPORT

63 ART FAIR REPORT

ESSAYS

71 BRINGIN' BACK BAPU! by Murtaza Vali

73 SHOCK OF THE OBVIOUS by Geremie R. Barmé

74 BLESSED AND DAMNED by Chin-Chin Yap

75 OLD PICTURES AFRESH by Doug Hall

PROFILES

80 "INDIAN HIGHWAY" by Sara Raza

82 JUDITH NEILSON & PENNY CLIVE by Michael Young

84 MARIA KALDENHOVEN by Andy Cohen

SPECIAL FEATURES

ARTASIAPACIFIC HISTORY & TIMELINE

145 WORKING DRAFTS by Dinah Dysart

148 FIRST FOOTPRINT by Leon Paroissien

151 FIELD RESEARCH by Hannah Fink

154 REDEFINITION by Andrew Maerkle

PHOTO ESSAYS

158 COLLECTIVE: A JOURNEY TOWARD A NEW INDIA by Ram Rahman

168 A PERSONAL DIARY by Xing Danwen

178 LANDSCAPES by Lois Conner

ASIAN CONTEMPORARY ART LANDSCAPES

188 RUMINATIONS ON THE ASIA-PACIFIC TRIENNIAL by Suhanya Raffel

190 CONTEMPORARY ART AT ASIA SOCIETY by Vishakha Desai

192 ASIA SOCIETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Melissa Chiu

194 EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS by Apinan Poshyananda

196 LOCATION, SPACE, CONTENT ARE THE BEGINNING OF CURATION by Fumio Nanjo

198 SOME IMAGES IN THE GUISE OF A TEXT by Hou Hanru

NEW CENTERS & PERIPHERIES

202 BLOWING IN THE WIND by Chaitanya Sambrani

204 CULTURAL CHECKPOINT by Sacha Craddock

206 BALANCING ACT by Gregory Burke

LETTERHEAD

210 COLLECTORS

190 FOUNDATIONS

192 MUSEUMS / NON-PROFITS

194 GALLERIES

196 ACADEMIA

INFLUENTIAL & EMERGING

232 BAHC YISO & JEWYO RHII by Doryun Chong

233 LO KOON CHIU & SIMON GO by Oscar Ho

234 LUI CHUN KWONG & LEE KIT by Tobias Berger

235 BUKY SCHWARTZ & GUY BEN-NER by Tal Yahas

236 ON KAWARA & TAKEHITO KOGANEZAWA by Kenichi Kondo

237 FX HARSONO & S. TEDDY D. by Hendro Wiyanto

238 RAY YOSHIDA & MUHANNED CADER by Sharmini Pereira

239 PENBA WANGDU & TENZING RIGDOL by Martin Brauen

ART CRITICISM

202 CHINA'S POST-UTOPIAN CRITICISM by Hu Fang

204 LOVE IN THE TIME OF THEORY by Marian Pastor Roces

206 IRRELEVANCE THAT MATTERS by Joan Kee

BOOK REVIEW

257 BUILDING A CURRICULUM

REVIEWS

268 SAN FRANCISCO "Mahjong" & "Half-Life of a Dream" 270 MELBOURNE Vivienne Shark LeWitt MELBOURNE "Octopus 8" 271 TOKYO "Trace Elements" 272 TOKYO "Into the Atomic Sunshine" TAIPEI "Coffee, Cigarettes and Pad Thai" 273 BEIJING Li Zhanyang 274 GUANGZHOU Wu Shanzhuan HONG KONG Shen Shaomin 275 BANGKOK Navin Rawanchaikul 276 BERLIN Min Wong ROVERETO Chen Zhen 277 LONDON Naoyuki Tsuji 278 LONDON Mithu Sen NEW YORK Nikhil Chopra 279 LOS ANGELES Haegue Yang

PROJECTS

294 RMB CITY: Open Now

296 WHERE I WORK: Bharti Kher

296 THE LAST WORD: Greed is Good

296 PROPOSAL X: Max Gimblett & Lindy Roy