Vuk Vuković is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and Film and Media Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. He works on the nexus of modern and contemporary art from a global perspective, with an emphasis on questions of methodology and intellectual history. His curatorial research has supported institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, among others. He received a B.A. in Art History and Film and New Media Studies from NYU Abu Dhabi.
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was established in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1961, during the peak of the Cold War, drawing inspiration from the principles of the 1955 Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. Founded by developing countries opposed to formal alignment with either the United States or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, NAM advocated for national…
