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Chinese and English characters reading, "Art is cosmopolitan. It belongs to no age. It belongs to no country." and underneath in English, "George Fisk Comfort, one of the founders of the MET, at a preparatory meeting of the MET in 1869."

 

Xu Bing, Art for the People for The Met, 2020

“Art is cosmopolitan. It belongs to no age. It belongs to no country.” George Fisk Comfort, one of the founders of the Met, at a preparatory meeting of the Met in 1869.

Courtesy of the Artist