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In wednesday’s special edition of The Art Newspaper, which is daily produced during the international art fair Art Basel that is currently taking place, one of their correspondents reports on a roundtable discussion concerning the Future of the Museum in Europe. The article quotes Hans Ulrich Obrist, director of the Serpentine Gallery in London, saying that for some collectors “to go to a museum is not so interesting anymore because they can’t buy anything”.

Responding to this rather alarming remark, Tate director Nicholas Serota related an experience he had at a dinner during the Venice Biennale last week, where he heard one collector asking another for his assessment of the art fair. The second replied that he had not had the opportunity to see the Cornice Art Fair yet, to which the first responded: “No, I meant the Giardini and the Arsenale”, apparently not knowing that both venues are hosting non-commercial exhibitions during the Biennale.

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