The global contemporary and the rise of new art worlds : [The global contemporary art worlds after 1989 ; exhibition ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe September 17 2011 February 5 2012] The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined exhibited interpreted and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York London Paris or Berlin. The art world distributed itself into art worlds. With the emergence of new art scenes in Asia and the Middle East and the explosion of biennials the visual arts have become globalized as surely as the world economy has. This book offers a new map of contemporary arts new worlds. The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds documents the globalization of the visual arts and the rise of the contemporary over the last twenty years. Lavishly illustrated with color throughout it tracks developments ranging from exhibition histories and the rise of new art spaces to arts branding in such emerging markets as Hong Kong and the Gulf States. Essays treat such subjects as curating after the global turn; art and the migration of pictures; the end of the canon; and new strategies of representation. Publishers website