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Ai Weiwei photographing himself at a Munich hospital in September 2009, with a bag of fluid surgically removed from his skull. Courtesy the artist and Haus der Kunst, Munich.

NEWS: Munich

BUKY SCHWARTZ,

NEWS: Tel Aviv

TAKASHI MURAKAMI, Oval Buddha Gold, 2007–10. ©2007–10 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. Photo by Cedric Delsaux – Water Parterre/Château de Versailles.

NEWS: Paris

Illustration by Brian Rea.

THE POINT: United Kingdom Shuts Out the Arts

TYEB MEHTA, Mahishasura, 1994, acrylic on canvas, 150.5 x 120.3 cm. Courtesy Christie's Images, Ltd.

AUCTION REPORT: Buy Now, Sell Later

Aerial view of Art Taipei, 2009. Courtesy Art Taipei.

ART FAIR REPORT: Fairground Attractions

MICHEL TUFFERY and PATRICE KAIKILEKOFE, Povi Tau Vaga (

An Artist's Bullish Feeling

OMER FAST, The Casting, 2007, production still. Collection of the artist. Courtesy Postmasters Gallery, New York, gb agency, Paris, and Arratia, Beer, Berlin.

Missing in Action: Omer Fast

Installation view of artworks by the Gutai Art Association at the

Beyond Gutai 101

NAIZA KHAN, Belts From Another Age (Khamosh), 2006, screen print, 76 x 57 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Operating Above the Law

YEONDOO JUNG, Cine-Magician, 2009, performance documentation. Courtesy Kukje Gallery, Seoul.

All the Way Back To the Futurism: Performa 09

Roberto Chabet at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, Quezon City, circa 1980s. Photo by Soler. Courtesy the Roberto Chabet Archive.

Anxious Objects Waiting to Collide: Roberto Chabet

MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN, Zahra's Image (detail), 2009, mixed media on wood, six panels, 300 x 200 cm each. Dedicated in loving memory to the artist's late husband

Brisbane Looks Across the Pacific To New Frontiers: Asia Pacific Triennial 6

Song Dong standing in Waste Not, an installation of his family's personal effects, in his solo exhibition

A Half Century Laid Bare: Song Dong