April in New York was a period of transition: for museums, between the heady shows of the winter season and the summer blockbusters; for galleries between exhibitions timed to open during the Armory art fair in March, and the first edition of Frieze New York in early May. Despite what some have seen as a creeping provincialism in recent years, New York institutions are increasingly attune to—or, according to others, desperately scrambling to keep pace with—developments on the international art scene. Here’s a tour some of the artists from across Asia and the Middle East whose work was spotted at institutions big and small.

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