At Art Basel, No Americans Is No Problem
Sales at the world’s most prestigious art fair are doing just fine, even with only a handful of collectors making the transatlantic trek.
The Pace booth at Art Basel.
Source: Pace Gallery
The number of attendees at the first VIP day of Art Basel in Switzerland seemed to surprise nearly everyone.
“There were days where no one wanted to go, there were days where we were like, ‘No one’s going to be here, but we have to do it anyway.’ It was very up in the air,” says Marc Glimcher, president of the mega gallery Pace. It was only last week, he says, “that I had a feeling it was going to be good.”