Issue

Illustration by Brian Rea.

THE POINT: United Kingdom Shuts Out the Arts

TYEB MEHTA, Mahishasura, 1994, acrylic on canvas, 150.5 x 120.3 cm. Courtesy Christie's Images, Ltd.

AUCTION REPORT: Buy Now, Sell Later

Aerial view of Art Taipei, 2009. Courtesy Art Taipei.

ART FAIR REPORT: Fairground Attractions

MICHEL TUFFERY and PATRICE KAIKILEKOFE, Povi Tau Vaga (

An Artist's Bullish Feeling

OMER FAST, The Casting, 2007, production still. Collection of the artist. Courtesy Postmasters Gallery, New York, gb agency, Paris, and Arratia, Beer, Berlin.

Missing in Action: Omer Fast

Installation view of artworks by the Gutai Art Association at the

Beyond Gutai 101

NAIZA KHAN, Belts From Another Age (Khamosh), 2006, screen print, 76 x 57 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Operating Above the Law

YEONDOO JUNG, Cine-Magician, 2009, performance documentation. Courtesy Kukje Gallery, Seoul.

All the Way Back To the Futurism: Performa 09

Roberto Chabet at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, Quezon City, circa 1980s. Photo by Soler. Courtesy the Roberto Chabet Archive.

Anxious Objects Waiting to Collide: Roberto Chabet

MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN, Zahra's Image (detail), 2009, mixed media on wood, six panels, 300 x 200 cm each. Dedicated in loving memory to the artist's late husband

Brisbane Looks Across the Pacific To New Frontiers: Asia Pacific Triennial 6

Song Dong standing in Waste Not, an installation of his family's personal effects, in his solo exhibition

A Half Century Laid Bare: Song Dong

ZHANG HUAN, MY ROME, 2005, performance on the statue of Marforio, Capitoline Museum, Rome, in which the artist reflected on ancient civilizations and Rome's history as an empire. A

Zhang Huan: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

from top to bottom: LOVE IS THE END OF ART, 2009, two-week performance in collaboration with artist Nick Currie, better known as Momus, at Zach Feuer Gallery, New York. Photo by Ry

Aki Sasamoto: Listening to The Sound of Sharpened Footsteps in A Dark Room

CONVERSATION I–III, 2005, still from video installation with five synchronized screens, 12 min. The artist sits between two corpses, quietly singing and humming in Thai. All images

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: Dialogues With Difference