PARIS, May 19— ''Magicians of the Earth,'' which opened Thursday at the Pompidou Center and La Villette, brings together contemporary art from all over the world, juxtaposing artists from New Guinea and Italy, Australia and England, Tibet and the United States. Every culture and countless artistic approaches have been appropriated in a spectacular post-Modern bazaar in which everything seems equally valid and available.
NYtimes,1989 http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/20/arts/review-art-juxtaposing-the-new-from-all-over.html
The monster show presented in Paris during the summer under the title Magiciens de la Terre (Magicians of the Earth) will be remembered as the first-ever attempt at a planetary exhibition of contemporary art. Four years in the making, the show assembled works of one hundred artists from some forty countries--mostly countries and regions that have been largely overlooked by the mainline art establishment. It filled the entire top floor of the Pompidou Center as well as the whole of the six-plus acre converted cattle shed of La Grande Halle de la Villette. In many ways, Magiciens was more like a worldwide biennale of a new kind rather than a conventional exhibition.
http://www.worldandi.com/specialreport/1989/september/Sa16748.htm
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