How much do they really know? Spot the posh pretenders at Art Basel
Ignorant ‘art enthusiasts’ flock to Art Basel and engage in shallow conversations
With each blossoming spring, the city opens its cultural consciousness to an extended feast of exhibitions and installations. It’s the time of year when even bankers and socialites rise above their superficial lives of money and fashion to ponder thought-provoking questions. Art Basel’s annual flowering of creative works provokes and delights, challenging our perceptions, and moving us to re-think the metaphysics of …
Everybody who is anybody wants to be invited to the opening night Vernissage – even if few can pronounce it properly.
Oh, who are we kidding? It’s basically a glamorous show-off for big money sponsors such as banks to suck up to the One Per Cent. Circling the shallows are speculative philistines trying to ingratiate themselves with real experts, less to learn about the artistic value of any art, than whether the price might rise.