Issue

KHOSROW HASSANZADEH, Terrorist: Khosrow, 2004, Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 250 x 205 cm.Copyright the artist. Courtesy Mohammed Afkhami Foundation.

Toronto: Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians

(Left) REN HANG, Edited by Dian Hanson, Published by Taschen, Cologne, 2016. Softcover with color illustrations, 311 pages.(Right) RED FLOWER: THE WOMEN OF OKINAWA, By Mao Ishikawa

BOOK REVIEWS: Stripped Bare

Sahand Hesamiyan in his studio located in Khorramdasht Industrial Zone, Iran.

Sahand Hesamiyan

Zhao Tao

Zhao Tao

Image of the gravesite of FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE in Röcken, Germany. Courtesy James T. Hong.

ONE ON ONE: James T. Hong on Friedrich Nietzsche

Portrait of Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Courtesy the artist.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Progressive Director

Installation view of “Enchantment as Function: Revisiting Postmodernism” section, “Shifting Objectives: Design from the M+ Collection,” at M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong, 2016–17.Photo by

Hong Kong: Shifting Objectives: Design from the M+ Collection

BAKH BAKH, 1985/2015, acrylic and fabric on canvas, 90 x 90 x 12 cm. Courtesy Estate of Hassan Sharif and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai.

Rebels with Causes

Letters & Corrections

DEEPAK UNNIKRISHNAN, Temporary People, 2017, Paperback anthology, 240 pages. Published by Restless Books, New York. Courtesy Lantian Xie.

ONE ON ONE: Lantian Xie on Deepak Unnikrishnan

Panoramic view of Tbilisi, Georgia. Photo by and copyright Georgios Giannopoulos.

DISPATCH: Tbilisi

Illustration by O Hezin.

THE POINT: Expanding the Vision for Arts Patronage

All illustrations by Marta Grossi, based on film stills from F is For Fake (1974) by Orson Welles.

F for Forensics

Portrait of Jaime C. Laya. Courtesy Manila Water Company, Inc., Quezon City.

Jaime C. Laya