I was there in 1991. I found Nicholas Treadwell, Enfant terrible of the English art world, setting up in a car showroom because the organisers wouldn't let him in the main hall. We got on very well. The works he was showing were streets ahead of the humdrum rubbish on show at Art Basel. I was in Basel to study the neuropsychiatric effects of melatonin.

Walde is the man. I always look forward to checking out his documentaries. Keep the wave goin man - Can’t stop The Walde!

It's a market.

I used to work the fair every year for McKee Gallery from New York. Great little city , lots of fun. I miss the Beyeler Foundation, the Kunst Museum , visiting the Isenheim altarpiece in Colmar, and the most awesome Doner Kebab place just down Clarastrasse from the Fair.

Clever to have Waldemar introduce the show. I (unlike some others) understand that Waldemar can't do ALL the documentaries himself.

Really glad to see these documentaries thanks. Waldemar.

This is all well and merry, but it was still the old Monet piece that drew my attention😂😂😂

love it❤

I love Art Basel !

I see magnificent works of art gandering. It doesn't even know it's anything other than a frame.

2 small coffees > 16.90 euros > got in my Jaguar and went elsewhere.

Thank you for the information I enjoyed it very much

I had coffee in Basel and peed. Then I moved on to Italy. Later I returned to Basel and peed then got a coffee to go! Oh yes, I'd like to see the art show, but the timing was wrong. But I loved Italy, all of it. Luckily I visited many countries in Europe and UK while living in Wuerzberg, Germany. It would be great to return again, perhaps Next art Basel!

thank you so much for putting this content together

My 2nd HOME since 1997 Basel i visited Art Basel every year .

So much enthusiasm about magnified amateurish doodles.

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I love Perspective docs but this one was cut so fast I couldn’t digest what I was seeing… for that matter I couldn't see what I was seeing. Who who looks at Art at high speed? What is shame this wasn’t edited and directed better.

One day I will attend this event. The creme de la creme in the art world. Impressive.

WOW

I feel like I have watched this exact video before. Is this a rerun?

I like the Documenta better for it's contrasts

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the Art money laundry of 1989 or any year for that matter ...

This is obviously based on past years. No one in a mask. Dead giveaway.

I love Perspective and Waldemar, and I'm an artist and open-minded, but I can't say anything good about Marina Abramovic...

Lovely

you find the most cutting edge contemporary art at art colleges, not art fairs

Johnny Crocket of Phillips Asia at 00:58

Why the quick cuts? Either you want to show us, or you don't

I saw stuff like that in Disneyland --but much better than this. Perspective is lowering its high standard with non serious art

Mark you are a Moran to the power of 34 .

I've been to basel and yes it's everything the intro said but it does not have a vibrant food scene. When I tasted the Chinese food in the city centre, it was the worst I've ever tried. The local lady apologised because she said it's the best in town. I said she needs to get out of basel more

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Not really! Some of us paint in isolation. I am sure some of the displayed pieces are great, but that does not represent the whole world!

The Center Of The Modern Art World is breathtaking craptacular.

bubblegum and tacos..... you cant unsee

If this place went up in smoke, hardly anybody would be upset by its apparent loss except for high-rolling art investors. Outside of the rarified, so-called, fine art movement nobody gives two hoots for this dross called modern art. It is all very much a case of the Emperor's new clothes in play. If Tracey Emin's unmade bed was dumped in a layby, everyone walking by would assume it is just another unfortunate bit of fly-tipping.

Tax Evasion: Basel

The footage from Basel was so old lol

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I Am Getting Justice

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looks like a big-pocket ikea exhibition. how depressing

I live in Basel, we are not allowed to visit the Museums and any venues without 3 G. Unjabed are not allowed to move freely. It is sickening!

We want to SEE these creations, not have them briefly flashed on screen for 2 seconds. 👎

I don't see anything only walking people and talking people.

Very interesting. Not my taste, but more power to them. Self expression is always good.

Art Basel is a tragedy for art at so many levels. One of the people interviewed say that the event is no longer Eurocentric-nothing further from the truth. This event is at its core a representation of what art and culture means for the Western cultural establishment. Everything that is fundamentally wrong with art right now is display in Art Basel. The way neoliberalism is manipulating the world of art is very worrisome. You can smell the money more than the paint on the canvas. The way they also have an event for designers and decorators tells you a lot, it feels like “ok , get your art here and then go across the street and buy the couch to match your painting or installation”. Also the fact that the event has branches in Miami and Hong Kong is more evidence of how the main goal of these kind of events is profit and not too much else. Can we find another European country that can surpass Switzerland when it comes to the love of money, banks and financial institutions?-it is so much the culture of that country. Miami-well, I don’t know if we need to go deep to describe perhaps one of the most superficial cities in United States. Hong Kong…well, not exactly a city know for its intellectual life, just like Miami. If you listen to the narrative of these people with their German accent, the way they talk about Art Basel and the future of such event, you can feel that they are comparing this glorified bazar with the biennials…scary as hell. Quite frankly, it would not surprise me if eventually, not to far in the future, these type of awfulness ends up as importan as the Venice biennale, or the Sao Paolo bienal. Depressing.

Art as entertainment. People often come from great distances just to experience temporary distraction from their empty lives. An hour later they have a nice meal at a hip restaurant then go to their hotel room to get some sleep. The lucky ones have a new friend they picked up at the show.

if you dont get art thats ok.

I noticed Waldemar was on for about 10 seconds ....hopefully the reason is that he is ashamed of the egotistic content of the show. I guarantee that in time these so called artists and critics will be seen as archaic embarrassments.

Stopped watching after a few minutes. The films by Waldemar are great, this one (without him) is insipid. The music vids with Simon Callow are mostly poor too.

Older art is still the best 😂

Lmao this vid is absolutely roasted by the comments.

2014, really?

Art Basel is not the centre of The Modern Art World, the centre is the following art theory: Images are made of 2D shapes, 2D shapes represent 3D form; images represent 3D form. All Modern Art has to bow to it. I'm existing in poverty in exile a long long way from Art Basel because I am the person who wrote the theory. ... And Burnley beat Reading AGAIN. UTC.

Mostly huge, well-financed commercial galleries with millionaire clients who purchase big name artists and then who resell to themselves can afford to ship some of the egregiously bloated artworks around he world.

Yuk.

para exorcisar a normopatia

Tourist infomercial, nothing more.

I don't find anything truly worthwhile in the works shown in this video or in today's so called art world. It is very disappointing. I keep myself in my own world, making art which is utterly unfashionable today. I am grateful to God that I am not forced to like Modernism! I am free to make beauty. Praise God!

Do you think that grown men should be allowed to walk around in public wearing short pants, t-sirts, and baseball caps?

90% of the exposition is not art, it's crap

With all due respect, contemporary art reaches I would guess a very minimal amount of the general public. It is not presented in general education as are many other essential subjects one reason is the exclusive patriarchal system we exist under which does not value aesthetic principles in daily life. These events are mainly playgrounds for the white supremacist indo european wealthy.

Covid ? Face masks ? No problem at all - so it seems.

pop art is not fine art

All people and places...how about showing the art instead? We're are not here for the talking heads.

horrible music selection

Inflated crap art.

ArtBasel= nothing to do with art. Mere speculation. Pure shit.