There is an added frisson from thinking it’s all there for the taking—you just have to want it badly enough and with a confident smile, whip out your Amex Centurian card.
The general impression from the fair’s content is of a lot of highly colored painting—if not all of it bombastic, then much is still over-charged.
With an audio installation, a series of glass sculptures, and a six-channel video installation, Christopher K. Ho’s most recent exhibition “Grown Up Art” proposed a call for pragmatic responsibility.
It is a dangerous statement, to say the least; a cause that justifies everything creates a totality…
Californian artist Shirley Tse this summer mounts her 5th solo sculptural exhibition “Lift Me Up So I Can See Better” at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in LA.
Serious art collectors at Basel generally only go to Art Basel and museums, with one exception, and that’s LISTE.
Art Unlimited is not just for big things but also for small, for long video works and feats of organisation. And now for performances too!
Pavilions were everywhere at Basel this year. Dan Graham of course, but also more widely John McCracken, …and all through Design Miami / Basel.
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