Issue

JAMES T. HONG, A Chinaman’s Chance (Dokdo and Senkaku), 2014, film still of video: 12 min 50 sec.Courtesy the artist and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Berlin: 2 Or 3 Tigers

LIU XIAODONG, Steel 5, 2016, oil on canvas, 50 × 100 cm. Photo by Gu Xiaobo.Courtesy Massimo De Carlo, Milan, London and Hong Kong.

Milan: Liu Xiaodong

AKRAM ZATAARI, Against Photography, 2017, 12 routed aluminum plates, four sets of intaglio and chine-collé prints, 24 x 30 cm each. Courtesy the artist and MACBA.

Barcelona: Akram Zaatari

LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN, installation view of the eponymous exhibition at Maureen Paley, London, 2017. Courtesy Maureen Paley.

London: Lawerence Abu Hamdan

IAN CHENG, Emissary Forks at Perfection, 2015–16, live simulation and story, infinite duration. Courtesy MoMA PS1, New York.

New York: Ian Cheung

Installation view of the Whitney Biennial 2017 and POPE.L’s (aka William Pope.L) Claim (Whitney Version) (2017) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2017. Photo by Bill

New York: Whitney Biennial 2017

YOUNG-IL AHN, Water Music (detail), 2007, Oil on canvas, 203.2 x 228.6 cm. Photo by Michael Underwood.Courtesy the artist and Susan Baik/Baik Art, Los Angeles.

Los Angeles: Young-il Ahn

(Left) PHOTOGRAPHY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: A SURVEY, By Zhuang Wubin, Published by NUS Press, National University of Singapore, 2017. Hardcover with black-and-white illustrations, 524

BOOK REVIEWS: Recipes for Looking

Firenze Lai in her studio in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong.

Firenze Lai

Lamia Joreige

Lamia Joreige

In from the Cold

DISPATCH: Amman

Illustration by Sarene Chan.

THE POINT: Marrying Culture and Commerce in Arts Patronage

Interior view of Institute for Provocation (IFP) in Beijing. Courtesy IFP.

In Close Quarters