Fair Well: Is Anybody Happy?

Barbara Kruger at Mary Boone Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach


As the celebrity stories and the reports of who-sold-what-for-how-much flow out
of Miami, I’d like to talk about the other side of things.

“I feel diminished,” is how one art dealer put it.
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Yes, the art world is ridiculously hierarchical, but we lay a heavy burden on ourselves. Here’s how it goes: The dealer who
can’t afford