I Love This Beautiful World

Liste Liste is a satellite show to Art Basel that is described as The Young Art Fair. There were a number of satellite shows that ran concurrent to Art Basel such as Design Miami/Basel, Scope Basel, Selection Art Fair, The Solo Project, Verge Basel and Volta7. In 5 days it is impossible to see all of these fairs and for me, a person with no sense of direction and no access to internet for directions, impossible to find. So Liste it was! According to the website: “Every year since its opening in 1996, the LISTE - the Young Art Fair in Basel has presented new and important galleries and highly contemporary young art. The LISTE's concept of introducing galleries in general no more than 5 years old and artists under 40 has been at the heart of its being one of the most important fairs for young art and still being considered one of the art world’s most important discoverer fair.” The venue for this event is a four story labyrinth that used to be a factory of so...

I arrived in Switzerland in the morning with a moment or two of nodding off between blockbuster hits and chats with the nice New York couple on the plane next to me. It was immediately apparent that Switzerland is different than any of the previous parts of the trip, my whirl through Paris CDG included. Switzerland gives me the feeling that things don't fall apart here. The plane to Basel was new and clean; it's temporary inhabitants in Prada and gold jewelry (except me in my dirty floral tank top with pulp fiction under arm). The shiny new Mercedes that gracefully drove me to my week's residence was driven by a multi-lingual gentleman who used turn signals, checking his blind spot before smoothly changing lanes, stopped for pedestrians. I was definitely NOT in New York anymore. He brought me to the door of Mrs Ackerman's apartment and waited until I was let in. Mrs Ackerman is the woman who is renting a room to me for the week. I must star...