Seven Days in the Art World

by Sarah Thornton

  **For example, artist Dave Muller told me, “I prefer the expression stink eye, which is when someone always picks the wrong thing. I am skeptical of the tastemaker stance. It is fortune-telling, trying to recognize what will be significant before it is.”

  **“Outsider art,” also called “naive art,” usually refers to the art made by inmates of insane asylums, mentally disabled people, or self-taught artists who have had little or no contact with art institutions.

  *Frieze is an international art magazine that began publication in 1991 and comes out eight times a year. Since 2003, its owners, Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover, have also run the Frieze Art Fair.

  **I later learned that François Pinault had edged out several museums to buy all seven paintings in a deal brokered by Philippe Ségalot.

  **The fact that rich countries like Saudi Arabia have not hosted pavilions makes it clear that having a developed art scene is not just about wealth.

  **The pavilion contained two works. The Art Gallery of Ontario bought one, Jouannou the other.

  **Francesco Bonami, an Italian-born American citizen, is a guest curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.