ArtAsiaPacific NO. 62 MAR/APR 2009

10 Editor's Letter

17 Questionnaire: Liu Xiaodong & Yu Hong

19 My Eight: Jehangir Sabavala

21 Keyword: Generation

NEWS & OPINION

31 QATAR Museum of Islamic Art 32 BEIRUT Beirut Art Center Jumpstarts Art Scene 33 PHNOM PENH Svay Ken (1933–2008) YANGON Performance Art Festival Carries On 34 TEL AVIV Gideon Gechtman (1942–2008) 35 HONOLULU Ray Yoshida (1930–2009) NEW DELHI National Art Gallery Opens New Wing 36 KOLKATA Paritosh Sen (1918–2008) VARIOUS LOCATIONS Roundup 42 Auction Preview | Art Fair Preview

41 The Point: Making Peace with Our Partitioned Selves

ESSAYS

49 Case Study: Murder at MoMA?

51 Perspective: Transcultural Reflections

53 Archive: Traveling a Different Path

PROFILES

58 Frontline: Set Video to Record

60 Interview: Bosporus Heads to the Block

62 On Location: Taiwan’s Upstart Biennial

FEATURES

72 MIKE PARR: Decapitations and Protestations by Michael Young

80 LEE UFAN: Illusions and Interrelationships by Ashley Rawlings

88 KUTLU? ATAMAN: Encountering the Outsiders of Mesopotamia by Donald Dinwiddie

96 TETSUMI KUDO: Proliferating Chain Reaction Interview by Doryun Chong

102 YIN XIUZHEN: The Fabric of Society by HG Masters

REVIEWS

114 NEW DELHI "Still Moving Image"

116 YARRA VALLEY “Tarrawarra Biennial”

117 SHANGHAI “Strategies from Within”

118 BEIJING Ni Haifeng

119 SEOUL On Kawara

120 SEOUL Yeondoo Jung

121 MUMBAI Abir Karmakar

122 MANCHESTER Masaki Fujihata

123 LONDON Aisha Khalid

124 BIRMINGHAM Shazia Sikander

125 NEW YORK Pouran Jinchi

126 NEW YORK “Sedition”

BOOK REVIEW

128 EIGHT AND A HALF THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW: About Three New Books on Chinese Contemporary Art

141 Where I Work: Ringo Bunoan

143 The Last Word: Museums in Meltdown

141 Proposal X: Ai Weiwei