Interview with Fumio Nanjo, the director of the new Singapore Biennial. The Loke Legacy, photography in Kuala Lumpur. Poetic Mandarin, the James Hayes Collection of Chinese calligraphy in Sydney. Buddhist, Jain and Hindu Sculpture in Germany. Guide to fall Asia Week, New York. Asian art at the Venice Biennale. Indian painting by Alexander Gorlizki and Riyaz Uddin. Mahjong, contemporary Chinese art from the Sigg Collection.