Issue

NO. 680, 2016, set of 50 paintings, acrylic paint on MDF, 80 x 25 x 4 cm each. Photo by Philip White. Unless stated otherwise, all images courtesy the artist and The Third Line, Du

Rana Begum: Simply Put

DEADEND STREET, 1978, photo emulsion and acrylic on canvas and wood, 94 x 290 cm.Copyright Kunié Sugiura. Courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.

Kunié Sugiura: Becoming Image

Still from BLUE AND RED, 2014, single-channel HD video with color and sound: 25 min 14 sec. Produced by Han Nefkens Foundation-BACC Award for Contemporary Art. Unless otherwise sta

Zhao Tao: Beyond Geography Lies the Truth

KRIS MARTIN, Plate with Milk, 2005, mixed media, 2.5 x 16.5 cm in diameter. Photo by Achim Kukulies. Courtesy the artist and Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf.

INSIDE BURGER COLLECTION: A Plate with Milk

OLAFUR ELIASSON, Green Light – An Artistic Workshop, 2017.Photo by Francesco Galli. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia, Venice.

Venice: 57th Venice Biennale

Sydney: Familiar Stranger

BLACK GUM 1, from the “Australian Graffiti” series, 2007, Lambda print, 100 x 100 cm.Courtesy the artist; Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne; and Michael Reid, Sydney and Berlin.

Melbourne: Christian Thompson

CHEN CHENCHEN, The Mercy of Not Killing, 2017, site-specific installation, mixed media, dimensions variable.Courtesy the artist and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.

Beijing: The New Normal

Installation view of “I Am What I Am: Performing Cantopop” section, “Ambiguously Yours: Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture” at M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, 2017. Courtesy M+, Hong Kon

Hong Kong: Ambiguously Yours

AHMAD MOUALLA, People and Power (detail), 2011, oil on canvas, 300 x 1200 cm. Courtesy Atassi Foundation, Dubai.

Dubai: Syria: Into The Light

Installation view of “But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, 1988–2008” with work by VIVEK VILASINI in the foreground, at New York University Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, A

Abu Dhabi: But We Cannot See Them: Tracing A UAE Art Community, 1988–2008

RASHEED ARAEEN, Shamiyaana–Food for Thought: Thought for Change, 2016–17, canopies with geometric patchwork, cooking and eating, dimensions variable.Photo by Yiannis Hadjiaslanis.

Athens: Documenta 14

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