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| This summer, as everyone knows, the biggest planets in the art stratosphere are lining up. The prospect of the once-a-decade convergence of the Venice Biennale, the Munster Sculpture Project and documenta, all kicking off in June, and complemented by the Basel Art Fair, the most venerable of the now-flourishing commercial art fair format, creates a kind of hysteria familiar to habitues of the art world. Like other entertainments, the art business is event-driven; but at a heightened register. Of all of the types of events that require the presence of an audience at a venue, art exhibitions promise, perhaps, the least predictable of outcomes. In a sporting contest, whatever the rigours of the game, there is always victory and defeat. An art show could never be that clear-cut, tending instead to offer... |
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