Three Nights in Art Basel’s Ever-Vibrant Social Scene, According to ARTnews’s Correspondents

Three Nights in Art Basel’s Ever-Vibrant Social Scene, According to ARTnews’s Correspondents

It’s a well-worn truth by now—or maybe a tired cliché —to say that Art Basel is as much about what happens outside the Messe Basel as within it. Beyond the VIP days, the real action can be found at night over cocktails and private dinners, where collectors, dealers, artists, and advisors close deals, swap gossip, and forge relationships that ripple across the art world for months—sometimes years—to come. So, in the name of journalistic rigor, …