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Article: The borderless Baroque: a traveling exhibition examines the scope and sensibility of what its curators call "post-Latin American" art. (Import/Export).
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- July 1, 2002
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The austerity esthetic of post-Sept. 11 art (which wanes with each passing day) was preceded by one of the most elaborate, over-the-top trends in recent art history. In an essay published in the New York Times on Jan. 2, 2000, Museum of Modern Art curator Robert Storr was quoted as saying that "for the past 20 years contemporary art has been tending toward the baroque." (1) Whether used in reference to bejeweled Madonnas by Chris Ofili or space-straining, reality-bending installations by Damien Hirst, the term "baroque" has been in the air for quite a while. In May 2001, the ambitious new Kunsthalle in Vienna opened with an exhibition titled "Baroque Party." The term ...