The mass extinction of art galleries & musings on the future of Art

Joanne Ooi
13 min readJul 5, 2020

This essay was originally written and first published in my newsletter, On My Mind. You can sign up here for it.

In the run-up to last month’s virtual version of Art Basel’s most important annual fair, the one that usually takes place in Basel, Switzerland, every June, Marc Spiegler, Art Basel’s CEO, wrote this trite and self-serving op-ed piece

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Joanne Ooi

Third nation multi-hyphenate polymath pissed off about market capitalism’s effect on creativity, the environment & wealth distribution.