![Eric Girault in front of his work The Port on Sunday](https://haitiliberte.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Eric-Girault-in-front-of-his-work-The-Port-on-Sunday-696x614.png)
Nobody can dispute that there is a cosmopolitan elite in the Global South that emulates, impugns, or sometimes supplants the cultural models of the West’s great metropolises. To savor the art of this diverse, wide-ranging elite is generally a matter of distinguishing its various aesthetic traits and themes from the West’s standard sensibilities. But this…