Where is the Genie?

Luis Camnitzer

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Issue #100
May 2019










Notes
1

Alicia Arteaga, “Eduardo Constantini: ‘Malba fue una manera de involucrarme socialmente,’” La Nación, September 11, 2016.

2

Felipe Buitrago and Iván Duque, The Orange Economy, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C., 2013, 42.

3

Buitrago and Duque, The Orange Economy, 16.

4

Roberta Smith, “A 101 Year-Old Artist Finally Gets Her Due,” The New York Times, September 16, 2016,

5

At a dinner organized by MoMA to discuss museum policies with invited artists, including myself, 2011.

6

A.G. Baumgarten, Theoretische Aesthetik, trans. from Latin by Hans Rudolf Schweizer (Felix Meiner Verlag, 1983), 3, first published in 1750/58. Translation from German by the author.

7

See .

8

See .

9

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ai Wei Wei Speaks (Penguin, 2011).

10

Wu Guanzhong was eulogized in The New York Times by William Grimes, see: William Grimes, “Wu Guanzhong, Leading Chinese Painter, Dies at 90,” New York Times, June 29, 2010, .

11

Baumgarten, 153, 155.

This essay is an advance excerpt from Luis Camnitzer, One Number Is Worth One Word, forthcoming from e-flux journal and Sternberg Press. The text is an edited version of a keynote speech for a conference exploring “The Idea of the Global Museum,” held at the Museum für Gegenwart at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, December 2016.