Issue

AI WEIWEI, 6/1/08, Wenchuan, China, c. 2005–09, From the series “Blog Photographs.” Courtesy the artist.

Winterthur: Ai Weiwei

NALINI MALANI, Remembering Mad Meg (detail), 2007–11, three projections, seven Lexan plastic cylinders, painted steel frames, light, motors, sound, dimensions variable. Photo by Pa

Paris: Paris-Delhi-Bombay

RABIH MROUÉ, Je Veux Voir (I Want to See), 2010, Luster ink print, 105 x 179 cm. Mixed-media installation, dimensions variable. Photo by Thierry Bal. Courtesy InIVA, London.

London: Rabih Mroué

ZHAO ZHAO, Euro (detail), 2008, C-print, 40 x 60 cm. Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai.

New York: Catch the Moon in the Water

KIM BEOM, Horse Riding Horse (After Eadweard Muybridge), 2008, Video still. Courtesy REDCAT, Los Angeles.

Los Angeles: Kim Beom

(Left) MOLLA NASREDDIN: THE MAGAZINE THAT WOULD’VE COULD’VE SHOULD’VE, Edited by Slavs and Tatars, Published by JRP|Ringier, Zürich, 2011. Softcover with color illustrations, 208

BOOK REVIEWS: Chronicles as Agents of Change

James Clar

THE LAST WORD: Mission Unaccomplished

QUESTIONNAIRE: Pinaree Sanpitak

Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here

SAMIRA ABBASSY, Three Ways of Amputation, 2007. From a series of charcoal, ink, watercolor and gouache on watercolor paper, 76.2 x 55.9 cm each. Created in collaboration with Anna

ONE ON ONE: Jaishri Abichandani on Samira Abbassy

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi overlooking an inflatable jumping castle in Schevchenko Nagorny Gagarin Park, Almaty, 2010. Photo by Irina Makarova for ArtAsiaPacific.

DISPATCH: Almaty

AMIT SHA’AL, Altneuland (“Old-New Land”), 2010, a 1936 archive photo set against its present day backdrop at the YMCA building, Jerusalem, 2010. Courtesy the artist.

NEWS: Political Palimpsests

ZAO WOU-KI, 2.11.59, 1959, oil on canvas, 130 x 95 cm. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd.

AUCTION REPORT: Smooth Sailing in Familiar Waters