ArtAsiaPacific No. 63
May/June 2009

14 Editor's Letter

21 Questionnaire: Anju Dodiya
23 My Eight: Samit Das
25 Keyword: International

NEWS
51 NEW YORK Yoshitomo Nara Arrested for Graffiti 52 BANGKOK Thai Curator Knighted by Italy 53 NEW DELHI SAHMAT's First Two Decades 53 SYDNEY Massive Australian Art Fraud 54 KUALA LUMPUR Ibrahim Hussein (1936–2009) 55 JAKARTA First Biennale with International Artists 55 BEIJING Groundwork Laid For Sichuan Anniversary 56 VARIOUS LOCATIONS Round Up: Disappearing Act

59 Opinion: The Dollar Dilemma in Vietnam
61 Auction Report
65 Art Fair Report

69 Whispering Gallery

ESSAYS
71 Archive: The Japan Pavilion
73 Case Study: Tino Sehgal
74 Current Affairs: Elections in Bangladesh
75 Perspective: Rirkrit Tiravanija

PROFILES
80 In Depth: Qiu Anxiong
82 Preview: "Your Bright Future"
84 Interview: Nalini Malani
86 On Location: Karachi

FEATURES
98 Preview of the 53rd Venice Biennale: Making Brave New Worlds
108 Haegue Yang: A Strange Kind of Optimism
114 Vernon Ah Kee: everydayiachievesomething
120 Singapore & Thailand Pavilions: Cinema Paradiso
126 Pak Sheung Chuen: The Art of Covert Intervention
132 Gonkar Gyatso: Contours of Identity

REVIEWS
146 BANGKOK "Traces of Siamese Smile"
148 MELBOURNE A Constructed Word
149 TOKYO Su-Mei Tse
150 BEIJING "Shooting"
151 BEIJING & SHENZHEN Zhang Peili
152 MUMBAI Kanishka Raja
153 MILAN "Southeast B(l)ooming"
154 LONDON "Aperture 27,000"
155 NEW YORK Serkan Özkaya
156 NEW YORK Keren Cytter
157 CHICAGO Von Kommanivanh
158 FORT WORTH Ranjani Shettar

160 Book Review: New Titles on West Asia

173 Where I Work: Shezad Dawood
175 The Last Word: Preemptive Repatriation
176 Proposal X: Reza Aramesh