Issue

ROMAN ONDÁK, Good Feelings in Good Times, 2003, performance executed at Wellington City Council, 2008. Photo by Steve Rowe. Courtesy Litmus Research Initiative, Wellington.

NEWS: Wellington

XU BING, The Living Word, 2001, carved acrylic characters, paint, collage, mixed-media installation. Courtesy Sotheby’s Hong Kong.

AUCTION REPORT: Correction, Not a Correction

NEWS: San Francisco

HUMA MULJI’s Arabian Delight (2008) being removed from the Pakistan Pavilion at Art Dubai 2008. Photo by HG Masters for ArtAsiaPacific.

ART FAIR REPORT: A Caravan of White Cubes

NEWS: Obituary: Kazuo Shiraga (1924–2008)

YIN JUN, First Day to School - Crying, 2008, oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm each. Courtesy Beijing Central Art Gallery, Beijing.

THE POINT: Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde

Sundaram Tagore. Photo by Alis Atwell for ArtAsiaPacific. All images courtesy Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York.

BEHIND THE WALLS: Sundaram Tagore: The Business of Cultural Diplomacy

Frank Cohen. Photo by Steve Forrest for ArtAsiaPacific. All images courtesy Frank Cohen Collection.JAGANNATH PANDA, God and Goat, 2007, fiberglass, fabric, glue, tin box and enamel

Frank Cohen: Do-It-Yourself

Lance Fung. Photo by Bay Area Event Photography.

ONE ON ONE: Lance Fung: Collective Wisdom

SIMRYN GILL, Pearls, page 20, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Raking Leaves, London.

Sharmini Pereira: Art Books as Artworks

Sam Keller. Courtesy Art Basel.

ONE ON ONE: Sam Keller: From Miami Beach to Mumbai

TSANG TSOU-CHOI, untitled street art, Hong Kong.

Square Words, Round Paradigms: Contemporary Calligraphy in China

KUTLUG ATAMAN, World (no. 2), 2003, single-channel video on DVD, looped, dimensions variable. Produced by The Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks, Istanbul. Courtesy the artis

Architecture in Script: From Without Boundary to Archive Fever

RAQUEL ORMELLA, Living in other people’s houses, 2001, installation view at SquatSpace, Sydney. Courtesy the artist.

Text Appeal: Australasian Text in Images