Kris Ercums (Curator of Asian Art and Global Contemporary Art, Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas; Smart Museum Curatorial Intern [1997–2005] and PhD’14, Art History, University of Chicago) questions East-West dichotomies and discusses the important role of Asian and Asian-American artists in creating modernism, as part of the Smart's 40th anniversary exhibition Objects and Voices: A Collection of Stories (February 12–June 21, 2015).