Volume 4, Number 1 contains:

• Making Sense of Art: The Relationship between Art Criticism and Theories of Visual Hermeneutics by Howard Riley.
• The Phenomenological Study of an Art Process by Duygu Beykal.
• Nationality in Art and the Case of Contemporary Turkish Painting by Birsen Limon, Neslihan Kiyar and Hüseyin Elmas.
• An Intercultural Aesthetic Dialogue: Creativity and Innovation Across Cultures by Donna Wright.
• Italian Cultural Patrimony and Memories of Revolution: Louise Stolberg’s Anti-Napoleonic Florentine Salon and Neoclassicism in the Work of Francois Xavier Fabre, Vittorio Alfieri and Germaine de Staël’s Corinne by Sharon Worley.
• En Pointe: The Politics of Imperial Russia and its Ballet by Krista Sigler.
• Aesthetic Identity, Well-Being, and the Right to Beauty by Per Bauhn.

• Theatre as a Platform for Consciousness Raising in Sarah Daniels’s Play The Devil’s Gateway by Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Arbaayah Ali Termizi and Emily Abd Rahman.
• Authenticating the Reel: Simulation and Trauma in United 93 by Fran Pheasant-Kelly.
• Moralizing Mixed Messages: Musical Imagery and the Vanitas Tradition by Edward Hafer.
• Symbolic Boundaries, Identity, and Art Museum Visitation by Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert.
• The Tragic Descent of Serious Reaction to Misplaced Sentiment by Kevin Almond.
• “That is One Big Wiener!”: Accessibility, Irony, and Odd Job Jack by Isabel Pedersen and Kristen Aspevig.
• My Art has a Secret Mission: The Role of the Arts in Australian Rural, Remote and Indigenous Communities by Julia Anwar McHenry.
• Realism in Nineteenth Century Iranian Figure Painting by Mahshid Modares.
• Renaissance Fashioning for Body and Spirit: Clothing as Vice and Virtue in the Face of Death by Elizabeth Reid.
• The Use of CGI to Capture the Visual Styles of Wayang Kulit Kelantan by Khengkia Khor.
• Transient Identities: Between Stillness and Motion by Marija Krtolica.
• Creating Visual Narratives: Visual Representations of Preservice Teacher Learning Journeys by Coral Cara.
• Transnational Transformations: The Nature and Nurture of International Collaboration by Arantxa Echarte.
• Connecting Aesthetic Judgment and Situational Awareness: Multimodal Decision Making on the Fireground by Valerie Ingham.
• Theatre in Pedagogy: Theatrical Devices as Classroom Resource by Asha Singh.
• The Effect of Geography on Art and Culture by Gholam Reza Hassani.
• Wi-Fi Colour in Real World and Cyberspace: Cyborg Identity in Urban Wi-Fi Networks by Jung-Hua Liu.
• Integration and Resistance in Desert Art by Maria Buchner.
• Twelve Visions of the World: Drawings from Young People in Different Parts of the World by Teresa Torres Eca.
• The Literacy in Visual Arts: A view about Elementary School Curriculum in Portugal by Ricardo Reis.
• The Utilisation of Animation Techniques in Film: An Analysis of ‘Sin City’ as a Form of Visual Art by Muhamad Sham Shahkat Ali.
• New Education Model: Multimedia Art by Vesna Srnic.
• Eighteenth-Century Pictorial Editions of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra by Arbaayah Ali Termizi.

Randy Kennedy at The New York Times writes:

As a crew of riggers finished hoisting a big taxidermied water buffalo onto its surreal perch the other day at the Asia Society Museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, there was a certain logistical satisfaction for those who looked on. “Watch the tail, guys, the tail!” one rigger yelled as the beast was pivoted into place atop a tall Ionic column, where it seemed to have climbed in its confusion.

But the sense of symbolic accomplishment in the feat was much greater. The water buffalo is a ubiquitous presence in many areas of Pakistan, where its tail is often painted red with henna. And the ascension of one onto a pedestal — to create a comically eerie sculpture by the artist Huma Mulji — was an apt metaphor for the larger exhibition being installed around it that morning in several of the museum’s galleries. More…