Issue

AYESHA JATOI, Clothesline II, 2007, photograph, 76.2 x 50.8 cm. Courtesy the artist and Talwar Gallery, New York/New Delhi.

New York: Emperor’s New Clothes

New York: The Thousand and One Nights

ZARINA HASHMI, Wrapping the Travels, 2009, woven strips of woodcut prints, computer-generated text, 24 x 20 in. Courtesy Luhring Augustine, New York.

New York: Zarina Hashmi

BAHC YISO, (Front) Untitled (The Sky of Los Angeles/Houston), 2000/2009. (Back) Wide World Wide, 2003. Courtesy the estate of Bahc Yiso. Photo by Museum Associates/Los Angeles Coun

Los Angeles: Your Bright Future – 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea

ZHANG HUAN By Yilmaz Dziewior, RoseLee Goldberg and Robert Storr. Published by Phaidon Press, London, 2009. Softcover with color illustrations, 160 pages. OUT OF NOW: THE LIFEWORKS

BOOK REVIEW: The Emperors’ New Shows Chronicles of Durational Pioneers

Rebecca Close at the ArtAsiaPacific office in Chelsea, New York, 2009. After proofreading a draft of an essay in ArtAsiaPacific 65, the Last Word

YOUNG REPLY: Breaking Unspoken Codes

Illustration by Joon Mo Kang / ArtAsiaPacific.

THE LAST WORD: Welcome to Gallery Land

Do It Yourself

Self-portrait illustration by Lida Abdul. For questionnaire, ArtAsiaPacific invites an artist to doodle on a Post-it note. All images and text are copyright the artist and AAP.

QUESTIONNAIRE: Lida Abdul

1 TEASING. When I was young, I always used to tease people by going like this.2 MASK. In this action, your hands cover your face like a mask. 3 CLOSED SOCIETY. In a closed society,

MY EIGHT: Moe Satt

Keyword: Performance

Ai Weiwei photographing himself at a Munich hospital in September 2009, with a bag of fluid surgically removed from his skull. Courtesy the artist and Haus der Kunst, Munich.

NEWS: Munich

BUKY SCHWARTZ,

NEWS: Tel Aviv

TAKASHI MURAKAMI, Oval Buddha Gold, 2007–10. ©2007–10 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. Photo by Cedric Delsaux – Water Parterre/Château de Versailles.

NEWS: Paris