Venice Biennale: where they sup with the devil

The Venice Biennale is where you see the artworld for what it is – in all its monstrousness and magnificenceI was standing in Piazza San Giacometto nursing a Campari soda at the Scottish party for Karla Black, and someone said to an old hand, who'd been coming to Venice Biennales since the 1970s, "Has the Venice Biennale changed?" And he said "Yes, and everything about it is worse."Back in those days, the world of contemporary art was for the large part a backwater enjoyed by those with an ec...

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