When the American economy began to dip into a deep trough In the 1990s, the American art market was suddenly bombarded with an influx of work from previously afterthought parts of the world, such as the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. However, the extreme prevalence of using "globalism" as a marketing tool tainted the many perceptions of art from large swaths of the world. Recently, however, globalism has seen a resurgence as a lens for major New York curators to see the world, allowing them to search for and display art from non-Western, undeveloped nations. This includes large galleries, who have often been far slower to respond to cultural diversity than small, community based New York galleries such as the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. This is helped in part by a growing notion of globalism in art as being a separate trend than economic globalization, making it less hackneyed for content. ("In the Art World, Globalism’s New Spin" by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, October 27 2016.)
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