We are pleased to announce our new issue of e-merge: Far From Local: policy and practice (of art and culture) around the globe (v.2, summer 2010). In this issue of e-merge, our contributors (all of whom are current SAIC graduate students or recent alums) take us across the globe, exploring cultural policy and institutional issues as they relate to the rapidly shifting political realities of the past 20 years. While these papers touch on diverse geographical locations and socio-political contexts, taken as a group they reveal subtle and surprising connections and commonalities, weaving together to create a loosely knotted image of a global art world.