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May 23, 2013
LECTURE

Thinking Globally: Exploring the MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian Art Collection

7 – 8 p.m.
Pillsbury Auditorium

Presenter: Risha Lee, the MIA's Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. The MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian art collection contains many gems of art, produced in a variety of times and places. In an introduction to the collecti...
Exhibition

Nick Cave
American, born 1959
Soundsuit, 2010
Metal, wood, plastic, pigments, cotton, and acrylic fibers
Gift of funds from Alida Messinger 2011.12a,b
©Nick Cave and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY

World Beats: Global Contemporary Art

Saturday, August 27, 2011—Sunday, July 15, 2012
Gallery 276
Free Exhibition

Post-colonial hybrid, cultural masquerade, outsider art, ultra-baroque, post-minimalist, global realism, drag art--these are just some of the terms that have been ascribed to the artworks in this exhibition. Likewise, the names of their makers reflect their rich diversity: Subodh Gupta, Ahmed Alsoudani, Yue Minjun, Cy Thao, Yasumasa Morimura, Willie Cole, Kehinde Wiley, Nick Cave. The pervasive connective tissue is a contemporary global viewpoint held in balance by references to distinctly individual, ethnic, and cultural roots--the complex relationship between the global and the local. Whether joyful or provocative, threatening or cynical, these works suggest a hopeful search for cross-cultural connections, universal meanings, mutual respect, and understanding.