Curators and gallerists are constantly in search of exciting, new contemporary art from around the globe. Yet in order for “emerging” art markets to become visible to the contemporary art elite, they must adopt infrastructures and criteria from that world. In so doing, they often standardize and lose the very novelty for which they are sought. These infrastructures, such as biennials and commercial art fairs, determine how artworks are exhibited and which artists are successful, and they codify art historical narratives which complement, rather than challenge, the dominant Euro‐American art historical canon. This phenomenon is particularly visible in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where infrastructural and market changes have transpired swiftly across the art scene in the past decade, resulting in the frequent sidelining of Arabic‐speaking artists and those who work in more traditional media. [contemporary art, United Arab Emirates (UAE), canon, aesthetics, novelty]

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具挑战性的条款：阿联酋的当代艺术与新颖性学科

策展人和画廊主一直在寻找来自世界各地的激动人心的新当代艺术。但是，为了使“新兴”艺术市场对当代艺术精英可见，它们必须采用该世界的基础设施和标准。这样一来，他们通常会标准化并失去他们所寻求的新颖性。这些基础设施，例如每两年举行一次的展览和商业博览会，决定了艺术品的展示方式和成功的艺术家，并整理了艺术历史叙事，这些叙事补充了而不是挑战了占主导地位的欧美艺术史典范。这种现象在阿拉伯联合酋长国（UAE）特别明显，过去十年来，基础设施和市场的变化在整个艺术界迅速发生，导致经常说阿拉伯语的艺术家和从事更传统媒体工作的艺术家处于边缘。[当代艺术，阿拉伯联合酋长国（UAE），经典，美学，新颖性]