Sublime

The Parisian dealer Emmanuel Perrotin was thrown out of the fair because he gave exhibitors’ passes to art consultant Philippe Ségalot and Christie’s owner François Pinault. As a compensatory gesture toward Perrotin’s loss of face and income, Ségalot admitted to paying him $300,000.

Third, we are fearful creatures and go to great lengths to preserve a sense of certainty, even when we know it to be false.

being an artist in any setting is just code for having an alternate value system.

and Maurizio Cattelan. For the first half-decade of the twenty-first century, Segalot chose Takashi Murakami, Luc Tuymans, Matthew Barney, and Robert Gober.