A Gilded Age of Anxiety at Art Basel Miami Beach

Bling on the market. (sorry could’t help myself). Irony heavily lated with market? Feel kind of sick here. A gilded stack of cast coal by Alicia Kwade. Sold for a bomb… I think marketing has totally caught up with the art product.

The artist is Berlin based. Polish born.  Is it the market and the rise of the fairs that is to blame? Or as is suggested the rise of anxiety?

Alicia Kwade — titled "Kohle (7T Rekord)," 2010