That's how Tate Modern director Frances Morris describes the 1989 Paris show Magiciens de la Terre. As The Economist's anonymous-as-usual correspondent writes, "The exhibition was in some ways a flop. In others it was a harbinger, or catalyst, of the way the art world would change with globalisation in the next three decades." Here's why. […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:33AM on May 8, 2019