Issue

MUSHIASOBI 05 (13) (“Bug Play”), 2005, from a series of drawings in sumi ink on washi paper. Tabaimo’s drawing symbolizes her personal struggle with atopic dermatitis.

QUESTIONNAIRE: Tabaimo

MY EIGHT: Xu Bing

KEYWORD: Ai Weiwei

KEYWORD: Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei with his list of names of schoolchildren who died in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, posted on the wall of his office at FAKE Design in Beijing, May 2009. Courtesy Ai Weiwei

NEWS: Ai Weiwei Challenges China’s Government Over Earthquake

Objects and correspondence from the Nam June Paik Archive now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. Gift of the Nam June Paik Estate. Photos by Gene Young.

NEWS: Mr. Paik Goes to Washington

NEWS: Labor Abuses Reported on Museum Island

TAKASHI MURAKAMI’s Monogram Multicolore, 2007, with the artist’s signature on the print’s chassis. Courtesy Clint Arthur.

NEWS: Dispute Over Murakami Prints

NEWS: Auckland Gets Major Donation of Modernists

NEWS: Kiyoshi Awazu (1929–2009)

Illustration by Oliver Munday.

THE POINT: June 4, 2009

This row: MARTYN SEE, Speakers Cornered, 2006, video stills. Courtesy the artist.This row: LIN + LAM, Unidentified Vietnam No. 18, 2007, film stills from 16mm film. Courtesy the ar

PERSPECTIVE: Possibilities of the Unreal

RULA HALAWANI, Intimacy, 2004, archival black-and-white fiber-based print, 42 x 72 cm. Courtesy the artist. ANISA ASHKAR, Me And Paul Klee Painting, 2004, C-print, 80 x 120 cm.

London: Aperture 27,000

SERKAN ÖZKAYA, foreground: Goldenboy, 2006; on pedestal: Shit on a Stick, 2008; on floor: Proletarier Aller Laender, 1998–2009.

New York: Serkan Özkaya

KEREN CYTTER, Les Ruissellements du Diable, 2008, video stills, video, 10 min 43 sec.

New York: Keren Cytter