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Virtual candlelight vigils for earthquake victims on Ai Weiwei’s blog. March 23, 2009. Copyright the artist.Virtual candlelight vigils for earthquake victims on Ai Weiwei’s blog. M

NEWS: Sichuan Earthquake Anniversary

Illustration by Christoph Niemann.

THE POINT: The Dollar Dilemma

MUBIN ORHON, Untitled, 1961, oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm. Courtesy Sotheby’s London.

AUCTION REPORT: Moments of Defiance

Visitors at the Armory Show, New York, 2009. Photo by David Willems. Courtesy the Armory Show, New York.

ART FAIR REPORT: Old World Exodus

The Japan Pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale, Venice, 1956.

ARCHIVE: The Japan Pavilion

Photo illustration by Alis Atwell / ArtAsiaPacific. Photo by Allison Schulte.

CASE STUDY: Tino Sehgal

Poster for a “get out the vote” campaign in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It reads: “My Vote Is Only Mine / I Will Give It With Eyes Ears Open.” Photo by Naeem Mohaiemen.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: Elections in Bangladesh

RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA, Untitled (demonstration no. 145), 2007, graphite on paper, 8.3 x 11.8 in. Collection of Craig Robins, Miami. Courtesy Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.

PERSPECTIVE: Rirkrit Tiravanija

Qiu Anxiong in front of Staring into Amnesia, 2008, at the Arken Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008. QIU ANXIONG, Staring into Amnesia, 2008, mixed-media installation, 25 x 5 m. Ins

Qiu Anxiong: Off The Track

GIMHONGSOK, G5, 2004, stills from single-channel video installation. Courtesy the artist.

PREVIEWS: "Your Bright Future"

NALINI MALANI, Remembering Mad Meg, 2007, mixed-media installation, dimensions variable. Photo by Denis Mortel. Courtesy the artist.

Nalini Malani: Her Cassandra Complex

Museum of Non Participation banner in Karachi. Courtesy Vasl, Karachi.

ON LOCATION: Karachi

* The Venice Biennale officially states that there are 77 “national participations” in this year’s event. This figure includes only countries with permanent and temporary pavilions

Preview of the 53rd Venice Biennale

SERIES OF VULNERABLE ARRANGEMENTS – SHADOWLESS VOICE OVER THREE, 2008, three-room installation of venetian blinds, hanging mirrors, fans, infrared-heating element,microphone and sp

Haegue Yang: A Strange Kind of Optimism