Issue

LIGHT BULBS People tend to get rid of light bulbs once they burn out, but I think it is a waste to throw them away. Along with working bulbs, I reuse dead ones as sculptural elemen

MY EIGHT

OBITUARY: Avigdor Arikha (1929–2010)

Walasse Ting at his studio in Amsterdam, 1990. Photo by Nico Delaive. Courtesy Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam.

OBITUARY: Walasse Ting (1929–2010)

SHUSAKU ARAKAWA, with a Duchamp piece from his collection, at his studio in New York, 2009. Courtesy Reiko Tomii.

OBITUARY: Shusaku Arakawa (1936–2010)

Illustration by Greg Grabowy.

THE POINT: Dirty Dealings

JEFFREY VALLANCE, The Brown Wall, 2008, mixed media with found objects, 243.8 x 426.7 cm. Photo by Joshua White. Courtesy the artist and Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.

ARCHIVES: Inside a Pacific Love Affair

CHRIS CHONG CHAN FUI, BLOCK B, 2008, a 20-minute film in which a stationary camera documents a day in life of the tenants of a massive apartment complex in Malaysia. Photo by Pang

CLOSE READ: Serious Staring

Graffiti by 2Tone on a brick wall in Auckland, 2010. Courtesy the artist.

PERSPECTIVE: Back on Tracks

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, Les Abonnés du Téléphone (detail), 2000. Installation view at Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 2000. Courtesy the artist.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: An Epidemic of Archive Fever

INTERVIEW: Fang Lijun

SHAHZIA SIKANDER, Bending the Barrels, 2009, digital video, 20 min. In the video, a series of ambiguously worded military pronouncements are superimposed onto footage of a Pakistan

IN DEPTH: Shahzia Sikander

SARNATH BANERJEE at his residence in New Delhi, 2010. Photo by Hemant Sareen.

PERSONAL HISTORY: Sarnath Banerjee

Aerial view of Chichu Art Museum in Naoshima, an island of the Seto Inland Sea of Japan. A permanent collection of artworks by Claude Monet, Walter De Maria and James Turrell are i

ON LOCATION: Museums of the Inland Sea

TRAN LUONG sitting outside his residence in Hanoi, Vietnam, 2010. Photo by Peter Hoang for ArtAsiaPacific.

INTERVIEW: Tran Luong