What Marco Polo Forgot

摘要: In 1995, Cai Guo-Qiang set adrift a Chinese junk on the Grand Canal in Venice, marking seven-hundredth anniversary of Marco Polo’s return to Europe. 2008, as world spiraled into far-reaching financial collapse, historian warned that long haul, “New York could turn Venice.” These two historical moments stage for discussion how contemporary Asian art navigates conceptual geography. An anthropology expands beyond expertise “native artifacts” corralled Western collections active interpretation alongside artists, curators, and critics cosmopolitan spaces encounter. Drawing Cai’s exhibition I Want Believe, at Guggenheim Museum New City focus contrasting interpretations key installations, is, perspectives dramatize different notions global. Is latest form entrepreneurialism or an expression emerging global civil ...