Nadim Sabella. Holiday Inn, 2009; mixed media. Colonialists like Kipling may have opined in print that never the twain of East and West should meet, but they should have known better. Certainly globalism's intermingling of cultures, and its imprint on the art of the past two decades, prove that polyglot hybridity is alive and well. And likely to stay that way, at least until Bulworth's desire comes to pass: everyone copulates till racial and cultural differences vanish (That would cause new problems, of course: a global monoculture--however harmonious--might become a bore,). The Present Tense Biennial, curated by Kevin B.... Read More