The Warburg is very well positioned to take a stand on crosscultural ethical issues, on cross-disciplinary issues — even questions of human rights.
Meanwhile, the video screen behind her overflowed with rapidfire images, and she brought onstage another crosscultural dynamo: the singer Angélique Kidjo, from Benin.
The final team-up of the two groups, with two songs devised for the occasion, was a crosscultural experiment in finding common ground: praising Allah, handclapping, a 4/4 beat, melodies using compatible scales.
Laila Binbrek, the director of the Third Line, said Ms. Jinchi's crosscultural works were particularly appealing to curators and collectors.
With both Pacheco and Hannibal Records' Joe Boyd present, the Songhai project for Nuevos Medios was hatched, a fusion of traditional Spanish and African music that prefigured later crosscultural world-music projects and spawned the hit Vente pa' Madrid.
Disney's manga-inflected Big Hero 6 has been hanging around the top 10 for nearly six weeks, and has quietly been amassing records for an animation in smaller Asian countries; its crosscultural ambitions get their first real test with a Japanese and Hong Kong release next frame.
As they visit the soirees and country houses where natives and expatriates mingle, "Le Divorce" becomes a wickedly observed tale of French-American relations, a crosscultural comedy of manners.
But audiences might have an easier time spotting the more obvious crosscultural references: the little sister who wears T-shirts that say things like "70's Soul Party" and spends her allowance at the record store buying "le nouveau Britney".
The key, however, may be a video projection piece, "Dialogue with Myself (Encounter)." It shows Mr. Morimura in action and plays even more overtly with Kahlo's own penchant for crosscultural crossdressing.
Pennsylvania is a hodgepodge of crosscultural currents and economies.
It could be a crosscultural stock exchange, offering lofts for visiting artists, architects, writers and poets who would enhance our city with their ideas.
