Issue

ZHANG HUAN, MY ROME, 2005, performance on the statue of Marforio, Capitoline Museum, Rome, in which the artist reflected on ancient civilizations and Rome's history as an empire. A

Zhang Huan: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

from top to bottom: LOVE IS THE END OF ART, 2009, two-week performance in collaboration with artist Nick Currie, better known as Momus, at Zach Feuer Gallery, New York. Photo by Ry

Aki Sasamoto: Listening to The Sound of Sharpened Footsteps in A Dark Room

CONVERSATION I–III, 2005, still from video installation with five synchronized screens, 12 min. The artist sits between two corpses, quietly singing and humming in Thai. All images

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook: Dialogues With Difference

IF ONLY IT WAS AS EASY TO BANISH HUNGER BY RUBBING THE BELLY AS IT IS TO MASTURBATE, 2009, film stills. Film commissioned by MASS MoCA, North Adams. The artist and MASS MoCA direc

Guy Ben-Ner: Solitary Refinement

Illustration by Joon Mo Kang / ArtAsiaPacific.

Tino Sehgal: The Unbearable Lightness of Possession

PAK SHEUNG CHUEN, The Horizon Placed at Home (N22¡17' 400

Venice: 53rd Venice Biennale

LIZA NGUYEN, Les putes de la Rpublique: The Whores of the Republic, 2008, photograph on canvas, 980 x 620 cm. Courtesy the artist and Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne.

Nam Bang!

AI WEIWEI, Snake Ceiling, 2009, backpacks and wood, 38 x 900 (diameter) cm.

Tokyo: Ai Weiwei

GU DEXIN,2009-05-02, 2009, wooden panels, paint, red lacquer, iron cage, old televisions and video, dimensions variable. Installation view at Galleria Continua, Beijing, 2009. Phot

Beijing: Gu Dexin

TARING PADI, Serial Posters, 2009, woodcut on packing paper, 62 x 41 cm. Courtesy Conference of Birds, Bangkok.

Bangkok: Taring Padi

KG SUBRAMANYAN, The Vase of Flowers, 2007, gouache on paper, 55.2 x 76.2 cm. Courtesy Akar Prakar, Kolkata.

Kolkata: KG Subramanyan

AYESHA JATOI, Clothesline II, 2007, photograph, 76.2 x 50.8 cm. Courtesy the artist and Talwar Gallery, New York/New Delhi.

New York: Emperor’s New Clothes

New York: The Thousand and One Nights

ZARINA HASHMI, Wrapping the Travels, 2009, woven strips of woodcut prints, computer-generated text, 24 x 20 in. Courtesy Luhring Augustine, New York.

New York: Zarina Hashmi