China There was plenty of Chinese art around, but only one Chinese gallery - Shanghai's 55 - got into New York's top three fairs. Armory Show director Katelijne De Backer says several applied to the Armory, but none met the criteria of the show's jurors. 'Perhaps next year,' she says.
Japan There's still plenty of work on show with a cartoon worldview, but the days of Superflat are over. Tokyo's Takefloor gallery shows childlike cut-felt drawings by Soju Tao; Hiromi Yoshii gallery shows a group of scribbling artists that's best described as rock'n'roll folk art. Some South Korean work - such as the comical, modern-life videos of Shim Ah-bin - are starting to shed the onus of contemporary art as traditional historiography.
India Young artists from the subcontinent are showing a hipster cynicism. Rickshawpolis, a painting by Jitish Kallat, and the slick Islamic graphics in Seher Shah's Control Line series (below) possess a global sensibility.
Taiwan The only offerings were video art. Huang Hsin-chien's Lotus City - a computer image, sculpture and video of a Jetsons' future with Buddhist trappings - is surreal. Peng Hung-chih's videos show dogs licking scriptures off walls - but in reverse, so it looks as if they're writing them.
