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...means the world. Storr's Biennale puts a heavy emphasis on artists from non-Western nations. At the Arsenale he devotes one large exhibition space to Turkey, which had never before taken part in the Biennale, and another to work from all across Africa. It was also on Storr's recommendation that the Biennale's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was presented on opening day to Malick Sidibé, a photographer from Mali whose wonderful studio portraits and pictures of people getting ready for a night on the town combine a fine eye with a very at-ease sense...
Although the lion’s share of recent progress has been the boon of non-western countries, the developing world still lags appallingly behind in basic health, economic development, and education. An estimated 39.5 million people were living with AIDS in 2006, while 2.7 million people die of malaria each year, 75 percent of them African children...
...Pritzer Prize, the architecture world’s highest honor, that same year.Piano’s two-building project was slated to create gallery space for modern and contemporary art in one building and serve as a new home for the Sackler Museum’s ancient and non-Western collection in the other. But community opposition put an end to the plans. Detractors of the design cited the possibility that its emphasis on drawing large crowds to exhibits might create additional traffic in the area.The current plans for HUAM involve multiple phases in both Cambridge and Allston, reshuffling...
...there were missionaries and colonial administrators and educators pushing Christianity, the backwardness of non-western societies, and the bright future of European civilization, technology, and culture. One of the stated goals of the French colonial policy in Africa was cultural assimilation—to better the primitive Africans by transforming them into little dark Frenchmen and women. Now there are Western-educated aid workers, politicians, professors, and organizers pushing the materialist religions of free-market capitalism and Marxism (both ideological descendents of Hegel), the backwardness of non-Western societies, and the bright future of modern technology and the American...
Another revealing instance of Western apathy toward non-Western abuses is the ongoing U.S. military prison abuse scandal. If foreign prisoners are mistreated by Americans, activists immediately spark a worldwide, front-page furor—and rightfully so. But when it comes to the far more routine, and more sinister, abuse of prisoners’ rights in China, we are deaf and dumb. Since it is not the U.S. committing the acts, Americans feel no guilt, Europeans feel no vindictiveness, and therefore no one has any notable reason to object...