Art Radar has a look at the artist's latest solo exhibition in New York, «There Is No Last Man», featuring Tripoli Cancelled (2017) and Volume Eleven (flaw in the
algorithm of cosmopolitanism)(2016).
The arbitration world is marked by an astonishing variety of individuals who share the common
attributes of cosmopolitanism, professional competence and emotional intelligence.
The final piece of the puzzle for Arendt was the conflation of Hitler's vision of Jewish world domination as a cause of the animus he held for Western democracy and the Stalinist
ideology of cosmopolitanism, which she tells us is the «fictitious world conspiracy that provided a more suitable background for totalitarian claims to world rule than Wall Street, capitalism, and imperialism.»
A Christian approach to migration should be rooted in both the universal
ambitions of cosmopolitanism and the concern for solidarity we find in communitarianism.
As I grew older and hipper, soccer became emblematic no
longer of cosmopolitanism, but rather of suburban living and spiritual surrender.
This drive towards inclusion and a
sort of cosmopolitanism, evidenced in both of these artists and, indeed, the whole roll call, makes for an interesting challenge to the status quo.
Yet, these small - scale reproductions are fictions, providing only the
illusion of cosmopolitanism to people who most likely will never see the real thing.
In her text for the exhibition's catalogue, Brito informs us that the
concept of cosmopolitanism was in fact introduced by Socrates, who saw himself as «a citizen of the world», and then further refined by the Stoics who saw it as «an aesthetic engagement with cultural differences.»
Today, be it in Miami Beach, Hong Kong, or Sanya, every island is admittedly the product of an
age of cosmopolitanism: we do not know where the future is headed, but can nonetheless experience the profound and dynamic changes while being part of its movement.
Just five of the 32 artists were born in L.A. while eight hail from other countries, a mix that reinforces the
virtue of cosmopolitanism in a period marked by a disturbing xenophobia.
More than anything else, it seems now in retrospect, the sudden
efflorescence of cosmopolitanism during the war was the inspiration of the new abstract art movements.
«Cosmopolis» is a new biennial platform devoted to research - based artistic practices that also reflect a renewed engagement with
theories of cosmopolitanism.