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Article: Saatchi to Me! Art Basel Is a Silly Tower of Babble.(Culture)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- December 11, 2006
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Byline: Simon Doonan
If one more person asks me if I'm "headed down to Art Basel" this week, I'm going to scream-which, of course, I will videotape and then take to next year's Art Basel and sell to Charles Saatchi for as much money as can be extorted out of him.
I'm sure my video scream-entitled The Scream, in a meaningless yet thought-provoking homage to Edvard Munch's masterpiece-will be the talk of next year's A.B., especially if I accompany it with a long screed about "what it all means." As to "what it all means" and why I am screaming, I will have to make something up. The truth would be too painful: If the art-erati found out I was screaming in ...