Simon Fox told the Guardian that the fair, which opens on Wednesday, can benefit from having strong competition on its doorstep and replicate the mutual success of Barbie and Oppenheimer at the box office in 2023. He said: It's very convenient for collectors who can come to London, spend a weekend here and then go on to Paris. It makes for a Barbenheimer moment.
The exceptional quality of this year's projects is powerful proof of Art Basel Paris's magnetism-and of the central role Paris and France continue to play on the global art market and the world of culture at large,