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Repository 110: Back from Basel | Highlights and Collecting Strategies
I just did the math: between Art Basel Miami Beach, private collections, and satellite fairs I have viewed close to 1,576 pieces of art in the past 48 hours. I think I can consider myself an endurance aesthete, because even as I wandered the last fair with sand in my shoes I could have continued for another 48 hours. Out of all the work, I would say 99% was not so great. As Sir Norman Rosenthal said before his talk…
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Repository 79: Requiem for an Artist’s Dream
Death. Death. Death. Life. Life. Life. I consider both, both in all of their preciousness, both in all of their urgency, both as passages in a larger scope of existence I can’t begin to describe, though I feel it always. Over the past two weeks I’ve had to navigate the consequences of two terrible deaths, both suicides of people, who while I was not close to, I had close associations. The first was the older brother of my daughter’s play…
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