Issue

Portrait of Ai Weiwei in the courtyard of his home in Beijing. Photo by Peter Parks. Courtesy Peter Parks, AFP and Getty Images.

Love the Future

GU DEXIN, 2009-05-02, 2009, Wooden panels, paint, red lacquer, old televisions and video, dimensions variable. Installation view at Galleria Continua, Beijing, 2009. Photo by Oak T

ONE ON ONE: Yan Pei-Ming on Gu Dexin

Aerial view of Manila, Philippines, 2011. Photo by MM Yu.

DISPATCH: Manila

Illustration by Sun An

THE POINT: Capitalizing on Communism

MAHBUBUR RAHMAN, I Was Told to Say These Words (Detail), 2010–11, glass fiber, cow and goat hide, speakers, metal cage and neon, dimensions variable. Courtesy Britto Arts Trust, Dh

PREVIEWS: Venice On The Horizon

LIEKO SHIGA, Portrait of Land Reclamation – Expanding Bloodlines, 2009. From the photographic series “The Annals of Kitakama Village.” Courtesy the artist.

NEW CURRENTS: Roots that Run Deep

SAM VAN AKEN, New Edens: Trees of 40 Fruit, 2011 (Detail). Photo by Bill Orcutt. Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York.

CASE STUDY: The Un-Edenic State of Copyright

ADEL ABIDIN, Jihad, 2006, video still, video: 3 min 27 sec. Courtesy Location One, New York.

CLOSE READ: A Protest Song

AKSHAY RATHORE, Murmur, 2009, installation with earthen pots, rope, audio speakers and sound, dimensions variable. Installation view at the Sculpture Park at the India Art Summit,

CURRENT AFFAIRS: The Economy of Ideas

The late Egyptian artist AHMED BASIONY protesting at Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where he was shot by police snipers on January 28, 2011. Courtesy the estate of Ahmed Basiony.

PERSPECTIVE: Revolution of the Mind

NYOMAN MASRIADI sketching at his studio in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2008. Courtesy Gajah Gallery, Singapore.

INTERVIEW: Nyoman Masriadi

GALIM MADANOV AND ZAURESH TEREKBAY, Transgression (Detail), 2010–11. Installation of a series of acrylic on canvas and cardboard, 280 x 320 cm overall. Courtesy Central Asian Pavil

INTERVIEW: Georgy Mamedov

A RINGING GLASS (RILKE), 2009. Site-specific installation, dimensions variable. Installation view at the Turbine Hall on Cockatoo Island, Sydney, 2009. Photo by Paul Green.

PERSONAL HISTORY: Ken Unsworth

THREE FACES (Detail), 2000. Mechanical sculpture made from metal, wood and composite materials.

INTERVIEW: Tamara Kvesitadze