The Crowd is UnBaseled [305]

Hi Crowd! Here’s a quick roundup of a bunch of ArtBasel reports because I wasn’t at ArtBasel and have to live vicariously through all the reports from people who were at ArtBasel and also distract myself from that by playing The LA Trail way too much. This of course is a fun new remake of The Oregon Trail, but in modern day LA and made by the artist CloudVamp who has an incredible website you should visit. Speaking of incredible artist websites, Rudxane just launched a new one and it’s probably my favorite artist website I’ve seen in ages. Immediately thinking about how to rip it off. It’s that good. His current participant driven work Residual Notes is also worth diving into. So onto Basel. There’s an abfab overview in The Observer talking about what curators Eli Sheinman & Trevor Paglen are trying to get at with the historical framing at Zero 10. With his Le Random piece Let the Barbarians In, Peter Bauman reflects on the framing of several meta-conversations and questions who the…