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Prophetic Pictures

JONATHON KEATS, Brain Trust, 2003, from a series of MRI scans of the artist's brain, showing areas of neural activity where he contemplated

The Immortality IPO

A tourist posing in front of the Central world Plaza in Bangkok in the aftermath of the Red Shirt riots in May. Photo by Manit Sriwanichpoom. Courtesy Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bang

An Unexpected Oracle

All Portraits By Maurizio de Angelis

Massimiliano Gioni: Image Overload

CLARA KIM plans to take Media City Seoul beyond the explicit concerns of new-media art

Belief & Trust

GAO SHIMING established his art-historical concerns with his co-curation of the 2008 Guangzhou Triennal,

All Cast To Center Stage

TAKASHI AZUMAYA champions artists who work with the here-and-now physicality of art experienced in a three-dimensional space, rather than flattened on a screen.

The Art Of Materiality In A Pixelated World

TIRDAD ZOLGHADR & HONGJOHN LIN. The co-curators of the Taipei Biennial are experimenting with showing fewer than 30 artists this year, and are developing the artists' work during a

Two Years

HAWAII, 2007, black-and-white photograph, 100 x 150cm. Courtesy the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York; Getsuyosha publishers, Tokyo; and Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo.

Daido Moriyama: Out of the Darkness

RICHARD LIN with his sculptural installation What's Ahead (1985) at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), 1985. Collection of TFAM. Courtesy the artist.

Taiwanese Minimalism: The Fundamentals Of, Point, Line, Area

REVOLUTION, 2005, still from single channel video showing a guard surveilling a crowd of protesters.

Muratbek Djumaliev & Gulnara Kasmalieva: The Camera Rolls as the Terrain Shifts

UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES, 2010, film still in which the protagonist's long-lost son visits him in the form of a monkey-spirit.

Apichatpong Weerasethaku: Agrarian Reincarnations Of Cinema

110 Larrakitj (Burial Poles), 2010, by 41 Yolngu artists from North East Arnhem Land. Photo by Sebastian Kriete. Courtesy Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth.

Sydney: The Beauty of Distance

MO YI, 2008 My Illusory Beijing 17 Qianmen Street, 2008, black-and-white gelatin silver print, 50.8 x 61 cm. Courtesy Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing.

Beijing: Mo Yi