2. New world order

Abstract

‘New world order’ examines globalized art production and consumption. Just as business executives circled the earth in search of new markets, so a breed of nomadic global curators began to do the same, shuttling from one biennial or transnational art event to another. At first, the filtering of local material through the art system produced homogeneity. The contemporary art produced by the shock of exposure to neoliberal economic forces, in Russia and Scandinavia and the contemporary art from communist governments, China and Cuba, are important parts of the new world order. As other powers emerged to challenge the US, and as neoliberalism fell into disrepair, new worlds were revealed.