![]() As each night hammers in a three-figure million sum, you can’t help but ponder the why of it. It’s the kind of immediate, firsthand interaction, devoid of hype or dollar value, that’s become rarer in art, but it’s the kind he’d like to promote with his book.Īnd what better time for such a reality check? This week marks the beginning of the big spring auctions, one half of the biannual eye bulge foisted upon us by the three major auction houses. ![]() I knew nothing about it, but I was absolutely riveted.” I didn’t know if it was done by one person. ![]() I thought, ‘Well, maybe this is some installation that has yet to be put together.’ I didn’t know what it was! I didn’t know who did it. “I probably wasn’t paying attention or in those days the signage wasn’t good and I walked into this space and I was profoundly moved. “Or maybe one of Joseph Beuys’s rooms,” installation artworks that, he said, have been in his head since he first discovered them at Documenta in 1968. Then he straightened and went relatively smaller scale. ![]() “The Rothko chapel, of course!” he said at last, with a grin, referring to the interfaith chapel Mark Rothko made for the de Menil family in 1971. ![]()
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