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Mourners gather for the first half of Bahman Jalali’s funeral, held at the Iranian Artists’ Forum in Tehran, 2010. The ceremony was later continued at the Beheshte Zahra cemetry in

NEWS: Bahman Jalali (1944–2010)

NEWS: Director Director Quits Over Funding Imbalance

Former residents of the 008 Art Zone protesting their eviction, on Chang’an Avenue, Central Beijing, in February. The artists marched 500 yards toward Tiananmen Square before being

NEWS: Disputed Evictions Continue

Illustration by Timothy Goodman.

THE POINT: Righteous Indignation

Promotional stills from the 1971 film Death in Venice, directed by Luchino Visconti. Dirk Bogarde as Dr. von Aschenbach. Courtesy Ming Wong.Promotional stills from the 1971 film D

CLOSE READ: Making Career Movies

EDUARDO KAC, Natural History of the Enigma (Edunia), 2003/08, transgenic work, a ‘plantimal’ with the artist’s DNA, expressed only in the red veins of the flower. Courtesy Eduardo

CASE STUDY: Blooming Into Being

SOO-IN YANG and DAVID BENJAMIN, Living Light, 2009, site-specific installation at the World Cup Stadium Peace Park in Seoul. Courtesy Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: Clearing the Air

The second edition of Sesshu’s Long Scroll: A Zen Landscape Journey (Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1960), a book of paintings by 15th-century Japanese painter Sesshu Toyo. Photo by Al

ARCHIVES: An Ongoing Journey

ERBOSSYN MELDIBEKOV AND NURBOSSYN ORIS, Kazakhstan, from the series “Family Album,” 2007–09, a family portrait taken 20 years ago in Kazakhstan, paired with a recent family portrai

Erbossyn Meldibekov

SKYSCRAPER, 2008, production still showing workers building a 35-meter-tall skyscraper from gold-painted iron scaffolding on rural land north of Beijing. All images are courtesy o

Wang Qingsong

Raya Martin on the set of Independencia, 2009, a black-and-white film set in the Philippines in the early 1900s, shot entirely in a studio against artificial backdrops. Courtesy R

Raya Martin

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian in the lobby of her apartment building in New York, 2010. Photo by Curtis Hamilton for ArtAsiaPacific.

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Fractured & Dissolved into Brilliance

HOW DID OBAMA WIN OVER WHITE, BLUE-COLLAR LEVITTOWN?, 2009, screen print on handmade Japanese paper, 224 x 164 cm. All images in this article are courtesy Brook Andrew and Tolarno

Brook Andrew: Archives of the Invisible

Biennale of Sydney: The Trials of a Long-Distance Relationship

Biennale of Sydney: The Trials of a Long-Distance Relationship