Books
Where Does a Work of Art Belong?
Like the international financial markets, the art museum is a controlling Western institution.
Globalization
Books
Changing the Tune of Globalization
In her new book on changing patterns of cultural production and consumption, Fatima Bhutto posits that it’s not American pop songs but K-Pop that has become the soundtrack of globalization.
Test 2018 posts
The Politics of Seeing Within the Global City
Following the template of NYC, the primary way of seeing in the global city remains, above all, “move on there’s nothing to see here,” and the deprivation of sight is commensurate with a new kind of colonialism.
Books
Consider the Migrant
Think of T.J. Demos’s The Migrant Image as a field guide to art for those interested in the politics of human rights, globalization, migration, and war.
Interview
SITE Santa Fe's Attempt to Kill the Biennial
SANTA FE, New Mexico — SITE Santa Fe claims to have established the first international art biennial in the United States. The year was 1995, the theme was “Longing and Belonging,” the raison d'être was to create a global exhibition in lil’ ole Santa Fe, and the response was so strong, according to
Opinion
Is the Middle East the Next Global Cultural Center?
The Financial Times kicks off a polemical article with the knock-out sentence, “Europe as a cultural centre is in danger of being eclipsed by the Middle East as western heritage industries struggle with swinging austerity measures.” Speaking to the recession-induced cuts to Western cultural organiza