Event overview
How do art and architecture spread, whom does art serve and how does art patronage change over time?
Because of its expressive and public character, art reveals globalization. How do developments in the art world parallel or showcase developments in globalization? Modern times brought accelerations of globalization, accelerations of art forms and their growing international radius. Contemporary art is a salient part of contemporary times: what does it tell us about contemporary globalization? If contemporary art is part of collective reflexivity, what does it reflect? More talk is about the art market than about art, just as in globalization most talk is about market forces rather than about wider ramifications of connectivity. Strands to the story include the influx of new buyers, art prices go through the roof, the art world goes mega, big bucks art squeezes museums, and multi-directionality and radical decentering of the art world.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Chair and Distinguished Professor of Global Studies & Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. He focuses on global political economy, development studies and cultural studies. Recent books are Covid-19 and Governance (2021), Connectivity and global studies (2021), Globalization and culture (2019, 4th edition), Multipolar globalization (2018). He was previously at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, University of Amsterdam, National University of Malaysia, Maastricht University and Freiburg University.
https://www.global.ucsb.edu/people/jan-nederveen-pieterse
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 24 Oct 2022 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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