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Portrait of *MOHAMMAD RASOULOF*. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

139 Main News: Celebrated Filmmaker Flees Iran After Conviction

*MAO ISHIKAWA*, untitled photograph from _Here's What the Japanese Flag Means to Me_ series, 1993-2011. Courtesy the artist and Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo.<br>

Editor’s Letter: Close to the Frame

*ALIA AL FARSI*, _Alia's Alley_. Photo by Asim Al Balushi. Courtesy National Pavilion of the Sultanate of Oman, Venice Biennale.

The Point: Money Well Spent?

Book Review: A Place

Book Review: A Place

Book Review: The Crisis of Narration

Book Review: The Crisis of Narration

*JENNIFER TEE*, _Crystalline Floorpieces / Sanguine Sea_, 2019, hand-dyed wool and ceramic spheres, 56 x 15 x 9 cm, at

New York: Jennifer Tee: Ancestral Beginnings, Sessile Beings

Installation view of *HEMAN CHONG*'s

Singapore: Heman Chong: Meditations on Shadow Libraries

*WILLIAM STRUTT*, _Black Thursday_, February 6th, 1851, 1864, oil on canvas, 106 x 343 cm. Photo by Hamish McIntosh. Courtesy Pictures Collection, State Library Victoria, Melbourne

Sydney: 24th Biennale of Sydney, “Ten Thousand Suns”

*TOSH BASCO*, _NO SKY_, performance, Serpentine Park Nights, London, 2021. Photo by Ines Manai. Courtesy the artist; Carlos/Ishikawa, London; Company, New York; and The Serpentine,

Inside Burger Collection: Tosh Basco: Framing the Physical

On-set photograph of *TSAI MING-LIANG*'s _Abiding Nowhere_, 2024, DCP: 79 min. Photos by Claude Wang. Courtesy the National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC.

Up Close: Tsai Ming-liang

*AMAR KANWAR*, _The Peacock's Graveyard_, 2023, still from 7 screens: 28 min 16 sec, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and M+.

Up Close: Amar Kanwar

Installation view of *DAAR - SANDI HILAL and ALESSANDRO PETTI*'s _Concrete Tent_, 2015/23, concrete, steel, cement board, solar-powered LED lights, 3 x 4 x 5 m, in Al Madam village

Up Close: Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti

Gülsün Karamustafa: In a Troubled World

Untitled photograph from *MAO ISHIKAWA*'s _Life in Philly_ series, 1986. Courtesy the artist and Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo.

The Sketch: Mao Ishikawa