“I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism,” Hans-Ulrich Obrist once remarked. “I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.” Obrist’s idea of city as exhibition couldn’t be more true of Basel, the spot on Switzerland’s Rhine which first breathed life into its eponymous art fair in 1970, and which becomes flooded once yearly with the best and most compelling in artwork from around the…
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