Issue

GALLERY PROFILE: Metro 5 Gallery and Valentine Willie Fine Art

Anti-American demonstrators in Dhaka at the start of the US-led onslaught on Afghanistan, November 2001. Photograph G.M.B. Akash/Drik.

PEOPLE AND PLACES: Drik

ZHANG DALI, 100 Chinese, No. 40, 2001, plaster, courtesy Chinese Contemporary, London.

ART MARKET: ARCO

RISHAM SYED, No More Tears Baby Johnson, 2000, acrylic, gold leaf, watercolour, photocollage on wasli, 33 x 48.3 cm.

Painting Over the lines

MARGARET TAN AI HUA, Virtual Bodies in Reality, 2001, interactive virtual reality installation.

Got cyber

JUNG YEONDOO, Ajibi Dance Hall, 1 February 2002, sculpture lounge, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan. Photograph Shishio.

Imagined workshop

SURASI KUSOLWONG, Relaxing Machine (VWlI), 2001, installation with car chassis, chairs, and television set.

Reprieve and rhetoric

NARELLE JUBELIN, Legacies of Travel and Trade, 1990, four renditions of Hedda Morrison's Chinese photographs (c. 1940) in cotton petit-point with found frames of ivory, semi-synthe

Shanghai childhood Narelle Jubelin

RICHARD KILLEEN, Rat Jacket, 2001 (detail), acrylic on powder-coated aluminium, 49 x 41.5 cm, courtesy Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch

KORU! KORU! KORU!

CHEN HAIYAN, Dream: Dog Pee, 30 August 1999, 2000, woodblock, carved, with ink and colour, 91 x 61 cm.

CHEN HAIYAN

SAKARIN KRUE-ON, Temple, 2000, white clay pigment on walls and floor, dimensions variable, About Art Related Activities Cafe and Studio, Bangkok; inset: Nuts Society exhibition at

PARKING LOTS, SHOPPING MALLS + CONTEMPORARY ART IN BANGKOK

LEUNG CHI WO, East 22-Lexington, 1999, C-print.

Leung Chi Wo’s open city

VASAN SITTHIKET, Vasan Sitthiket, 2001, from the series 'We Come From the Same Way', acrylic and clay on rice paper, 100 x 70 cm.

ACTIVIST, ANARCHIST, ARTIST

LINDY LEE, Cycles Through a Chinese Landscape (detail), 2001, installation, 'Three Views of Emptiness', Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne.

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