“Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.”
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I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.
When art wins, everyone wins.
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.
