The paper addresses the contemporary conflicts between the tendencies of globalization and localization exacerbated by the advance of communicative technology and sophisticated marketing strategies. The wealth of scholarship in the literature of social sciences affirms that the existing diversity of multiple universalisms and multiple particularisms are the reality of the human world. Focusing on the case of Macao, the paper argues that globalization can be viewed as a challenge leading productively to the enhancement of both self-awareness and regeneration of the culture of specific groups. In response to the complicated, imagery-saturated contemporary society and the extreme future shaped by the globalized media culture, the paper suggests a place-based and peace-and-environment-focused art education that embraces a visual culture approach both to curriculum and pedagogy.