Move Over, Mona Lisa: Reimagining What We Read, Look at, and Learn

Calls to include a wider range of art, literature, and ideas in the world's classrooms, libraries, and museums are loud and clear.If so many agree that reforms are needed, why is change so slow?The answer is the inequality pipeline - the multiple obstacles that ideas and art needs to overcome to circulate globally.Most strategies to disrupt the pipeline only increase inclusivity, without fundamentally challenging institutional hierarchies.In Move Over, Mona Lisa, Peggy Levitt reveals, through her conversations with creatives, thinkers, and professionals working in the cultural and academic worlds in Argentina, Lebanon, and South Korea, that another approach to combatting global cultural and intellectual inequality is underway. Like-minded actors outside of traditional cultural centers are creating new nodes of power, and new pathways which connect them, that allow art, books, and ideas to, "travel from Buenos Aires to Mexico City without having to pass through Madrid." They are circumv