Panel Discussion: Location, Location, Location

I used the word "provincial" the other day to describe the photographic selections from the Chicago Tribune and it wasn't a complement. Which is too bad, because I definitely recognize that the best photographic work around isn't being made in New York, it's being made in those places (like the one where I was born) we on the coasts derisively refer to as "fly-over states."

The New Museum is hosting a panel discussion on the 10th (Weds) entitled "Location, Location, Location! Is Provincial a Bad Word?" focusing on the place of regional arts in our global market place. The rise of Chinese art should be a part of this, though it doesn't appear any particular expert on this movement is in attendance (granted, I'm not even mildly familiar with the panelists.) And the usage I made above (coastal vs interior US arts) doesn't appear to be part of the panel, though being rather US-centric, that's most interesting to me. Combine the two and you can start probing the reaction US-born Chinese get once collectors discover that despite the name, they're not "real" Chinese and prices start heading south.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Is Provincial a Bad Word?
A Hot Button Panel from the New Museum
Weds, Jan 10
6:30-8PM
The Great Hall at The Cooper Union
7 East 7th St
(212) 219-1222

Admission is six bucks, free for New Museum members and Cooper Union students.

Moderated by Richard Flood, Chief Curator at the New Museum. Flood is fresh to NYC from the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, so should have a good grasp of the regional issues I've noted above.