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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

UNTITLED (detail) 2008, A cabinet installation consisting of replicated personal effects of Hong Kong sculptor Antonio Mak. From the exhibition “Looking for Antonio Mak” (2008) at

PERSONAL HISTORY: Jaffa Lam

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

Installation view of Ota Fine Arts' booth at Art HK11, Hong Kong, 2011. Photo by George R. Waldren IV. Courtesy Art HK.

ART FAIR REPORT: Pecking Order

ILLUSTRATION BY JAKE COHEN.

THE POINT: A Hourse Name Caveat

LOUISE WEAVER, It would seem that eyes can live without hearts (Oracle Fox) (detail), 2005, mixed media, fox: 53 x 50 x 30 cm. Photo by Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Courtesy

PREVIEWS: Where Paths Meet