Can Art Basel Make Paris the World’s Art Capital Once Again?

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What Does It Take to Keep Art Basel on Top?

This week the art world descends on Basel, a Swiss city on the Rhine River, where the latest edition of the world's most important modern and contemporary art fair is taking place. We're talking about Art Basel, of course. Its 290 exhibitors include all the top galleries of the w ...  Show more

Roberta Smith Still Has Notes

Roberta Smith is the exemplar of popular art criticism. For almost four decades, Smith was a familiar voice on the arts pages of the New York Times, serving for many of those years as co-lead art critic. Both feared and revered, she is known above all for close looking, precise d ...  Show more

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