Contents

• Introduction: Contemporary art inside out
• Museums: modern/contemporary
• Remodernizing Manhattan
• Sublime- on-Hudson: Dia : Beacon now
• Sensation: Saatchi
• Contemporizing the Tate Modern
• Spectacles: architecture /sculpture
• The experience museum: Bilbao and beyond
• The intensity exhibit: Barneyworld at McGuggenheim
• Markets: global/local
• Going global: selling contemporary art
• From the desert to the fair
• Countercurrents: south/north
• The postcolonial turn
• Our otherness: the beauty of the animal
• Contemporaneity : times/places
• Taking time
• Art, truth, and politics
• An art historical hypothesis
• What is contemporary art?