Issue

WANG TIANDE, Hou Shan No.14-HLST005 (detail), 2014, Rubbings, ink, Xuan paper, bast paper and burn marks, 36 x 211 cm. Courtesy the artist

Beijing: Wang Tiande

Installation view of Hou Chun-ming’s series “God Hates You” (1999) in “Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong” at Sheung Wan Civic Centre, Hong Kong, 2014. Photo by Wong K

Hong Kong: Ten Million Rooms of Yearning. Sex in Hong Kong

SONIA KHURANA, Somnambulist’s Song, 2008–10, two-channel video installation: 15 min.Music in arrangement with Wasifuddin Dagar and Frøy Aagre. Courtesy Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, N

New Delhi: Sonia Khurana

REZA ARAMESH, Action 137: 6:45 pm, 3 May 2012, Ramla, 2014, hand-carved Carrera marble, 136 x 40 cm. Courtesy the artist and Leila Heller Gallery, New York.

Dubai: Reza Aramesh

MOUNIRA AL-SOLH, Sama’/Ma’as (Bahr), 2014, double-sided patchwork curtain, 270 x 254 cm. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut & Hamburg.

Beirut: Mounira al-Solh

EXTRASTRUGGLE, Fuck Your Standard, 2014, acrylic on paper, 140 x 100 cm. Courtesy Galeri Non, Istanbul.

Istanbul: Extrastruggle

TADASHI KAWAMATA, installation view of the artist’s reinstallation of the Asia Collection at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, 2014. Courtesy MAK.

Vienna: Tadashi Kawamata

AI WEIWEI, Very Yao, 2009–14, 150 bicycles, dimensions variable. Copyright the artist. Courtesy Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.

Berlin: Ai Weiwei

APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL in collaboration with Chai Siri, Dilbar, 2013, single-channel video installation projected on a transparent screen: 10 min. Copyright the artist. Courtesy

London: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

TSUYOSHI MAEKAWA, Shiro No Uneri (A8), 1962, oil and burlap on canvas, 130.5 x 162.5 cm. Courtesy Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York.

New York: Tsuyoshi Maekawa

TANYA HABJOUQA, from the series “Occupied Pleasures” (2011– ), archival inkjet print, 27.9 x 43.2 cm. Courtesy Whitebox Art Center, New York.

New York: How Green Was My Valley

CHANG’AN AVENUE AND THE MODERNIZATION OF CHINESE ARCHITECTURE. By Shuishan Yu. Published by University of Washington Press, Seattle, 2013. Hardcover with color illustrations, 344 p

BOOK REVIEWS: Avenues of History

(From left to right): Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian in the pattern-splashed living room of their live-in studio in Dubai’s al-Barsha neighborhood.

Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian

FINE PRINT: Damage Inc.