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Article: Boundary issues: the art world under the sign of globalism.(Critical Essay)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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You could call it a pathology of self-definition. Either that or a severe case of "boundary issues." For close to ten years now, that ambient phenomenon known as the art world has been hit by what amounts to an identity crisis, more often than not figured under the sign of globalization. Flip through the catalogues and magazines, survey the principal actors and bit players, track the ever-proliferating biennials--from Sao Paulo to Shanghai to Istanbul--and witness the art world's struggle to rethink its audiences and range of influence, its norms and procedures. But just how precisely has the art world addressed the conditions of "multiplicity, diversity, and ...