Issue

SHIRANA SHAHBAZI, Untitled (Detail), 2011. Site-specific wallpaper installation. Photo by ArtAsiaPacific.

New York: Shirana Shahbazi

SURENDRAN NAIR, Elysium (Cuckoonebulopolis), 2010. Oil on canvas, 180.3 x 240 cm. Courtesy the artist and Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern, San Francisco.

San Francisco: Surendran Nair

(Left) THE REVOLUTIONARY CENTURY: ART IN ASIA 1900 TO 2000, Text by Alison Carroll, Published by Macmillan Art Publishing, Melbourne, 2010. Hardcover with color illustrations, 208

BOOK REVIEWS: Why Revolutionary? Why Not Evolutionary?

MITHU SEN, Teeth, 2009, pencil on paper, 15.2 x 22.9 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Mithu Sen

THE LAST WORD: The Art of Facing up to Adversity

QUESTIONNAIRE: Michael Joo

The Upside of Social Networking

MAYA LIN, Vietnam Veterans Memorial (detail), 1982, Two stone walls, 246 x 0.8 ft. Installation view at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Photo by Brian Jeffery Begg

ONE ON ONE: Peter Robinson on Maya Lin

Art students congregating at a school in Colombo, 2011. Photo by Mieke Kooistra for ArtAsiaPacific.

DISPATCH: Colombo

Illustration by Sun An.

THE POINT: Greed By Any Other Name

Rendering of SPATIAL ANATOMY’S Myeon-bang, 2021, mixed-media installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artists and CHAT, Hong Kong.

PREVIEWS

The African Renaissance Monument, a 164-foot-tall bronze statue outside of Dakar, Senegal, built by North Korea’s Mansudae Art Studio in 2010. Photo by Christophe Blitz. Courtesy M

PERSPECTIVE: Hollow Monuments

Photo documentation of MRAT LUNN HTWANN’s performance, in which he invited volunteers to bite his body and photograph the marks that remained. Courtesy Beyond Pressure.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: Pressure Points

SUBODH GUPTA, Atta, 2010, cast bronze on wooden table, 99 x 119 x 65 cm. Courtesy Nature Morte, New Delhi.

ARCHIVE: Our Symbols