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Can visual culture be global? Tim Marlow, Artistic Director, Royal Academy of Arts, London - Moderator Axel Rüger, Director, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Elana Brundyn, Chief Executive, Norval Foundation, Cape Town Megan Tamati-Quennell, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Maori and Indigenous Art, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington When an increasing number of historians, curators and museums seek to explore a multiplicity of histories and to overturn the established historical canon, can there be such a thing as a global visual culture? Should we even aspire to one? On the second day of Culture Summit Abu Dhabi 2019, Tim Marlow, Artistic Director of London’s Royal Academy of Arts, led a panel discussion to examine these issues in the company of Axel Rüger, Director of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, one of the world’s most famous museums; Elana Brundyn, Chief Executive of the recently opened Norval Foundation, a cultural centre that hosts touring exhibitions and runs a lively arts programme in Cape Town, South Africa; and Megan Tamati-Quennell, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Maori and Indigenous Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington. 65