The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds

Beschrijving

Tent. The Global Contemporary : Art Worlds after 1989, Karlsruhe, ZKM / Center for Art and Media, 17-09-2011, 05-02-2012. - The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin. The art world distributed itself into art worlds. With theemergence of new art scenes in Asia and the Middle East and the explosion of biennials, the visual arts have become globalized as surely as the world economy has. This book offers a new map of contemporary art's new worlds. The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New ArtWorlds documents the globalization of the visual arts and the rise of the contemporaryover the last twenty years. It tracks developments ranging from exhibition histories and the rise of new art spaces to art's branding in such emerging markets as Hong Kong and the Gulf States. Essays treat such subjects as curating after the global turn; art and the migration of pictures; the end of the canon; and new strategies of representation