Issue

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

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