"Why 1960? “I thought a lot about that,” Westermann replies. It was a moment, she explains, when a great sweep of decolonisation was under way, with the effective end of the British empire, and “all of a sudden across the world you see intellectual ferment, around literature and art and architecture”, an international flowering of “alternative modernisms”." Guggenheim director Mariët Westermann on making ‘art histories’ in Abu Dhabi - ft.com/content/3be6afae-0c2b… via @FT