25 REPORT Young student Chandramohan's work at The Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.U., elicits strong reactions from the moral police and the state authorities. Sandhya Bordewekar keeps us abreast of the latest developments.
28 LEAD ESSAY Chinese art is hot and happening at the moment. Karen Smith traces its rise on the global art stage.
LEAD FEATURE
38 Lucian Harris compares and contrasts the markets for Chinese and Indian art, dwelling on how commercial forces play a major role in the development of contemporary art.
43 Ingrid Dudek offers us insights into the trends and themes in Contemporary Asian art.
46 Jeannine Tang treads carefully through the contentious terrain of gender and identity in contemporary Chinese art at the 52nd Venice Biennale and Documenta 12
50 INTERVIEW Artist-provocateur Lu Jie speaks about his initiative, The Long March Project, to Andrew Maerkle
53 LEAD PROFILE JJ Xi and Cai Yuan's art antics lead Nadim Julien Samman to conclude that this two-men team of Chinese artists is aptly named, 'Mad for Real'.
56 INTERNATIONAL REPORT One of Britain's largest blockbuster exhitbitions of Chinese art is called, The Real Thing, but is it real enough, asks Zehra Jumabhoy
SPECIAL REPORTS
79 Long before China opened itself up to visitng art glitterati, Vineet Kumar had already made artistic inroads into that country, enthuses Sandhya Bordewekar
82 Tushar Joag introduces some of the significant art initiatives at the World Social Forum.
84 Gender-benders and animal impersonators had a field day at a Khoj Residency, Beth Citron discovers.
86 Sandhya Bordewekar looks at how artists from Bhavnagar have enriched Indian art.
89 K. Sridhar chats to Nobel prize-winning chemist, Richard Ernst, about the latter's interest in Thangka scrolls.
91 LETTER FROM PAKISTAN The new National Art Gallery in Islamabad promises good things ahead for contemporary Pakistani art. Quddus Mirza waxes lyrical.
94 INITIATIVE Meera Menezes revels the mysteries of site-specific installations at Buddha Enlightened, a workshop in Bodh Gaya.
INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
98 Samira Sheth rates the success of the first Gulf Art Fair.
99 Yashodhara Dalmia tells us how the 52nd Vennice Biennale raised intriguing questions about representation and documentation.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEWS
104 Valsan Koorma Kolleri's delicate constructions in a New York Gallery are less sensitive than usual to their environment, Karin Miller-Lewis notes
106 Hema Upadhyay's Glass House deals with some tough home truths, says Shilpa Phadke.
108 With their unusual structures and enigmatic lighting, Chittrovanu Mazumdar's latest installations are very different from his canvases, finds Samira Sheth.
109 PROFILE T&T stand for double trouble says a delighted Sonal Shah
REVIEWS
112 Thanks to leaping steel dogs and pale- pink luggage, Ella Datta enjoys her visit to a show dedicated to 'the object'
114 Aji V.N's paintings and drawings are quite eerie, says Gitanjali Dang.
116 Neha Choksi's collaborative performance makes Gitanjali Dang reflect on the difficulty of detachment.
118 Jagannath Panda has endless sympathy with the animal kingdom, notes Jasmine Shah Varma.
119 Latika Gupta analyses the use of the miniature in Nusra Latif Qureshi's Garden of Fruit Trees.
120 George Martin P.J's colourful painitings and sculpture-installations are visually appealing, says Rahul Bhattacharya
121 Zehra Jumabhoy assesses Vasudha Thozhur's latest solo in Bombay.
122 Archana Hande's sculpture-installations conjure up three towns.Zehra Jumabhoy steps inside each one of them.
123 Valay Shende's flashy sculptures pay little attention to complex concepts. Shiladitya Sarkar complains.
124 Shiladitya Sarkar enjoys Banaras in Bombay at Manu Parekh's latest show of paintings.
125 Prabhakar Kolte's layered abstractions have found an admirer in Shiladitya Sarkar
126 Abhay Sardesai revisits Sudarshan Shetty's Love
129 PRINTMAKING
Gayatri Sinha attends an exhibition of colonial period prints
130 SHOWCASE
Vidura Jang Bahadur captures the Chinese community in India.
136 LISTINGS