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Still from *YAEL BARTANA*'s _Mary Koszmary_, 2007.<br>

Yael Bartana Wins Artes Mundi

Shusaku Arakawa, with a Duchamp piece from his collection, at his studio in New York, 2009. Courtesy Reiko Tomii.

Shusaku Arakawa (1936–2010)

Leyla Akhundzadeh giving an interview. Courtesy Yulia Tikhonova.

Leyla Akhundzadeh (1953–2010)

Police Censor Bangladesh Photo Gallery

TAO XIANGLI, Submarine, gasoline barrels, manometry device, monitors, oxygen devices, metal bucket, secondhand materials, 250 × 130 × 650 cm. Photo by Lin Yi. Courtesy Cai Studi

Shanghai Expo, Cai Guo-Qiang and the Chinese Dreamship

<b>UMIDA AKHMEDOVA</b>, <i>Women and Men: From Dawn to Dusk</i>, 2007, from a series of photographs published by the Swiss Embassy in Uzbekistan. Courtesy Yuliya Sorokina.

Uzbek Artist to Face “Insult and Slander” Charge

Top Commercial Gallerist to Head LA Museum

The demolished Zhengyang Creative Art Zone, Beijing, January 20 2010. Photo by Wenjei Cheng for ArtAsiaPacific.

Mass Eviction of Beijing Artists

AI WEIWEI photographing himself at a Munich hospital in September 2009, with a bag containing fluid that was surgically removed from his skull. Courtesy the artist and Haus der

Ai Weiwei Hospitalized After Beating By Chinese Police

Digital rendering of University of New South Wales’ College of Fine Arts Gallery, scheduled for completion in late 2011. Courtesy Architectus, Sydney.

Government Greenlights Expensive New Public Museum

BEHJAT SADR, Abstract III, 1961, oil on canvas, 19.4 × 28 cm. Courtesy Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection.

Behjat Sadr (1925–2009)

YOKO ONO’s Painting to Hammer a Nail, 1961, with various items nailed on by visitors, at the Seattle Art Museum, 2009. Collection of the artist. Courtesy Seattle Art Museum.

Yoko Ono Work Controversy

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.

Tyeb Mehta (1925–2009)

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

Ai Continues Activism Against China; Government Responds