Further highlights from ‘Global Positioning System,’ Art Jameel’s latest exhibition

Bo Wang ‘The Revolution will not be air conditioned’ While the Gil Scott-Heron lyric poem on which this work’s title plays (“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”) was a call to action for Black America in the 1970s, the Chinese artist’s video — a still from which is seen here — “begins with images of the 2019 anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong—scenes of rioting and destruction that spilled into the city’s luxury shopping malls,” the exhibition notes state.

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