Issue

top: LIN TIANMIAO, There is no Fun in it, 1998 (detail), mixed-media installation, dimensions variable; centre: YIN XIUZHEN, Breda Building Room No. 18,1997, installation, dormitor

Thread Concrete and Ice: Women's Installation Art in China

CAI GUOQIANG, The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Projects for the 20th Century, 1996, performance with gunpowder, Manhattan, New York.

Cai Guoqiang: From mystery and philosophy to reality

HOU CHUN-MING, New Paradise, 1996, woodblock prints, 14 panels, each 190 x 216 cm, courtesy the Asia Society, New York.

Taiwanese Storytellers: Huang Chih-Yang and Hou Chun-Ming

MANUEL OCAMPO, Immigrant's Daughter, 1997, acrylic on fabric, 114 x 82 cm, courtesy Galeria OMR, Mexico City.

Balancing Act: Tension and tenacity in Asian American art

Artist unknown, Torso of a Bodhisattva, Tang dynasty, 618-907, marble, 110 x 35 cm, Forest of Steles Museum, Xi'an.

China: 5000 years

WEI JANE CHIR, Connections, 1995, gelatin-silver print, acupuncture needles, wine, wax, glass tubes, 122 x 198 cm, courtesy Taipei Gallery, New York.

Site of Asia: Contemporary Asian Art in New York

ZHANG PEILI, Eating, 1997, three-channel video installation, edition of 3, courtesy Jack Tilton Gallery, New York.

Raise the Red Lantern: Chinese Art in New York

ISAMU NOGUCHI, Calligraphics, 1957, iron with rope, height 179 cm, courtesy Bedford Gallery, California. Collection the estate of the artist.

Ways of Seeing: Recent exhibitions in San Francisco

HYUN-SHILL KIM, Flower Field, 1996, silk fabrics, 42 x 53 cm. Photograph C & S Chattopadhyay.

A Korean WRAPsody: The art of pojagi in Los Angeles

YAYOI KUSAMA, Accumulation #1, 1962, stuffed fabric pouches on furniture frame, 94 x 99 x 109 cm, collection Beatrice Perry Family, courtesy Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Calif

Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama in Retrospective

front: MATTHEW NGUI, Will You Talk to Me?, 1997, mixed-media installation, dimensions variable; rear: NAVlN RAWANCHAIKUL AND RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA, Cinema Poster, 1997, mixed-media in

Cities on the Move

GU XIONG, You and I, 1998, installation, dimensions variable, courtesy Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver. Photograph Kim Clarke.

Jiangnan: South of the Yangtze in Vancouver

LEE MAN FONG, Figures in a Boat, date unknown, oil on board, 91 x 122 cm, Bonhams/Glerum.

Auction Report: Southeast Asian paintings in Singapore

Installation view, Stream Segment: The Reintegration of Tradition in Contemporary Art',the Asian American Arts Centre, 1997.

Gallery Report: The Asian American Arts Centre