Articles of ‘Art Cologne’

PUSH TO FLUSH. ART COLOGNE versus Art Basel: The 12 Factors that Have Historically Tilted the Competition in Favor of Art Basel

PUSH TO FLUSH. ART COLOGNE versus Art Basel: The 12 Factors that Have Historically Tilted the Competition in Favor of Art Basel

By Paco Barragán

Like Charles Dickens’ famous novel A Tale of Two Cities, the history of the contemporary art fair of the 1970s and 1980s can be explained by the extraordinary rivalry between Cologne and Basel. I will try to formulate here why ART COLOGNE, though being the first contemporary art fair, [...]