Issue

BAHC YISO, (Front) Untitled (The Sky of Los Angeles/Houston), 2000/2009. (Back) Wide World Wide, 2003. Courtesy the estate of Bahc Yiso. Photo by Museum Associates/Los Angeles Coun

Los Angeles: Your Bright Future – 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea

ZHANG HUAN By Yilmaz Dziewior, RoseLee Goldberg and Robert Storr. Published by Phaidon Press, London, 2009. Softcover with color illustrations, 160 pages. OUT OF NOW: THE LIFEWORKS

BOOK REVIEW: The Emperors’ New Shows Chronicles of Durational Pioneers

Rebecca Close at the ArtAsiaPacific office in Chelsea, New York, 2009. After proofreading a draft of an essay in ArtAsiaPacific 65, the Last Word

YOUNG REPLY: Breaking Unspoken Codes

Illustration by Joon Mo Kang / ArtAsiaPacific.

THE LAST WORD: Welcome to Gallery Land

BILLY APPLE, Res dominus clamat: A forced relation of two destined-to-be-unrelated things, 6 March 1973, 1973, mixed-media installation, dimensions variable.

Wellington: Billy Apple

Is the whole world watching?

Ram Kumar, MF Husain, Tyeb and Sakina Mehta at “Let History Cut Across Me Without Me” at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, 1993. Photo by Ram Rahman.

NEWS/OBITUARY: Tyeb Mehta (1925–2009)

NEWS: Suit Against City in Bilal Case

NEWS: Indigenous Art Market Gets Major Overhaul

A photo of a surveillance camera monitoring Ai’s house in Beijing, posted on the artist’s blog in June 2009. Courtesy Ai Wei Wei.

NEWS: Ai Continues Activism Against China; Government Responds

The India-Bangladesh border where Shahidul Alam was detained on June, 2009. Courtesy Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World.

NEWS: Photojournalist Seized at the India-Bangladesh Border

NEWS: New Prize For Iranian Art Established

XING XIN, The Black Box, 2009, performance documentation from Venice Biennale, 2009. Courtesy Berengo Studio, Venice.

NEWS/ROUND UP: The Impossibilities of an Island

Illustration by Peter Arkle.

THE POINT: Politics of Antagonism