It's the end of Paris + by Art Basel, after a week of intense immersion in the four corners of the capital. It's as if the art world had shut itself up in its own bubble, so as not to let itself be affected by the tragedies of the world. The return to reality has been more difficult, with a sharp decline in the total amount of transactions, according to forecasters. Behind the record sales is a tense, feverish, demanding market that, as a result, is no longer willing to spend on anything and everything!
At 19 p.m. on Sunday, it was time to close. And the ballet of trucks was already in place, in front of the Military School, to load the works, after the dismantling of the stands. Until the last minute, diehards roamed the aisles of the Grand Palais Éphémère, for fear of having missed out on a bargain, like the duo of architects Christian and Elisabeth de Portzamparc, discreet and oh-so-curious amateurs. Others, to take the pulse of this second edition of...
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