Issue

RYO TOYONAGA, Untitled, 1995, clay, 14 x 19 x 13 in.

New York: Ryo Toyonaga

WEI DONG, Game With a Fish, 2008, oil and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 55 in.

New York: Wei Dong

(Top) ART FOR A MODERN INDIA: 1947–1980By Rebecca M. Brown, Published by Duke University Press, Durham, 2009.Softcover with color illustrations, 224 pages(Bottom) THE TRIUMPH OF MO

NEW TITLES ON MODERNISM IN INDIA / BOOK REVIEWS: Postcolonial Personalities

Naiza Khan in her studio in Karachi, Pakistan, 2009.

Naiza Khan

Illustration by Julie Yeung.

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New Frontiers

MUSHIASOBI 05 (13) (“Bug Play”), 2005, from a series of drawings in sumi ink on washi paper. Tabaimo’s drawing symbolizes her personal struggle with atopic dermatitis.

QUESTIONNAIRE: Tabaimo

KEYWORD: Ai Weiwei

KEYWORD: Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei with his list of names of schoolchildren who died in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, posted on the wall of his office at FAKE Design in Beijing, May 2009. Courtesy Ai Weiwei

NEWS: Ai Weiwei Challenges China’s Government Over Earthquake

Objects and correspondence from the Nam June Paik Archive now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. Gift of the Nam June Paik Estate. Photos by Gene Young.

NEWS: Mr. Paik Goes to Washington

NEWS: Labor Abuses Reported on Museum Island

TAKASHI MURAKAMI’s Monogram Multicolore, 2007, with the artist’s signature on the print’s chassis. Courtesy Clint Arthur.

NEWS: Dispute Over Murakami Prints

NEWS: Auckland Gets Major Donation of Modernists

Illustration by Oliver Munday.

THE POINT: June 4, 2009