Issue

Kent and Vicki Logan in front of their collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Photo by Drew Altizer / Drew Altizer Photography, San Francisco. Courtesy Kent and Vick

Looking Behind The Smile

CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE, Wrapped Coast - One Million Square Feet, 1969, synthetic fiber wrapped around the shore of Little Bay, Sydney. Photo by Wolfgang Wolz. Courtesy Christo.

The Great Commissioner

Photo documentation of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. Courtesy Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima.

Taboos and Censorship in Japan Postwar Art: Mutually Assured Decorum

BE IN THE SAME BOAT, 2002, digital print, 240 x 410.9 cm.

Wu Tien-Chang: Facing the Unknowable Future

Yael Bartana at Union Square, New York, 2009. Photo by Peter Hoang for ArtAsiaPacific.

Yael Bartana: State of Metaphor

Yang Jiechang with 100 LAYERS OF INK, 1999, at his studio in Paris, 2009. Photo by Ed Alcock.

Yang Jiechang: The Communist Party Didn’t Pay the Bill

The table in an Upper East Side café in New York, where ArtAsiaPacific met Walid Raad in June 2009. Photo by Curtis Hamilton for AAP.

Walid Raad: Those who lack in imagination cannot imagine what is lacking

GUAN WEI, Echo, 2005, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 42 panels, 273 x 722 cm overall. Collection of Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.

Brisbane: The China Project

FIONA CONNOR, Something Transparent (Please Go Round the Back), 2009, glass, wood, metal fittings, glue, paint, vinyl.

Auckland: Fiona Connor

YAYOI KUSAMA, Fireflies on the Water, 2002, light bulbs, water, mirrored room, 300 x 450 x 450 cm. Collection of FNAC, France.

Sydney: Yayoi Kusama

TATZU NISHI, The Aureole of Tofu Buddha and Soy Sauce – The Land of Perfect Bliss, 2009, C-print, 164 x 120 cm.

Tokyo: Tatzu Nishi

SHENG QI, Boy Scout, 2009, acrylic on paper, 80 x 110 cm.

Beijing: In the Mood For Paper

TERE, Babyboom, 2009, aluminium, fiber, dimensions variable.

Jakarta: Tere

LN TALLUR, Digestive System, 2008, dual-motion bowl feeder, silicon, steel, wire mesh, hair, plastic toys, dimensions variable.

Mumbai: LN Tallur