Art provides glimpses of China’s future
Curtis Carter recently came to China to give a series of talks, culminating in an address on Chinese contemporary art to the International Aesthetics Association Congress in Beijing. Curtis is the incoming president of the association and an internationally respected Chinese contemporary art critic.
He currently serves as the international curator and honorary director of the Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art and frequently lectures at China’s top universities and art forums.
Curtis is a professor of aesthetics and philosophy at both Marquette University and the Les Aspin Center for Government in Washington, D.C. In Milwaukee, he is best known for being the founder/director of the Haggerty Museum of Art.
You may ask, what relevance does an art critic’s writing have in a business column? The answer is contained in the introductory paragraph to his speech to the Congress: “Artists working in China today face many challenges resulting from the robust transitions internally that contemporary Chinese society is currently undergoing. The two principal sources underlying these challenges derive from the forces of urbanization and globalization. Urbanization is the central internal issue, while globalization focuses on China’s interrelations with the external world.”
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