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NEWS: Beirut – Beirut Art Center Jumpstarts Lebanese Art Scene

Svay Ken at the opening of “Sharing Knowledge” at Bophana Audio Visual Centre, Phnom Penh. Photo by Jim Meszerski.

NEWS: Phnom Penh – Obituary: Svay Ken (1933–2008)

NEWS: Yangon – Performance Art Festival Carries On Despite Obstacles

Gideon Gechtman in his studio, 2001. Photo by Avi Hay. Courtesy Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv.

NEWS: Tel Aviv – Obituary: Gideon Gechtman (1942–2008)

RAY YOSHIDA, Poo!, 1999, collage on paper, 30 x 22 in. Courtesy Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia.

NEWS: Honolulu – Obituary: Ray Yoshida (1930–2009)

NEWS: New Delhi – Museum Wing Two Decades in the Making

NEWS: Kolkata – Obituary: Paritosh Sen (1918-2008)

NEWS: Roundup – Woe is the New Black

AMAR KANWAR, A Season Outside, 1997, film still. Courtesy the artist.

THE POINT: Making Peace with Our Partitioned Selves

AI WEIWEI, Marble Chair, 2008, marble chairs, set of 16, 120 x 56 x 47 cm each. Courtesy Phillips de Pury, London.

AUCTION PREVIEW: Correction, It is a Correction

Installing of

ART FAIR PREVIEW: Where the Well isn’t Dry

ORON CATTS and IONAT ZURR, Victimless Leather: Prototype (detail), 2004, mixed media, coat: 5 x 3 x 0.4 cm. Photo by Ionat Zurr. Courtesy the artists and SymbioticA, University of

Murder at MoMA?

ALLEN GINSBERG, Sea of Japan, 1963, gelatin silver print, with inscription in ink, 27.9 x 35.6 cm. Photo by Kristopher McKay. Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery and Allen Ginsberg T

Transcultural Reflections

Rabindranath Tagore on far right, with Mohandas and Kasturba Gandhi, in Santiniketan, West Bengal, 1940.

Traveling a Different Path to Independence