Collectors take a long hard look at themselves at Art Basel

Artists are holding up a mirror to the art world at Art Basel, its biggest tribal gathering, which opened to invited collectors yesterday. Collectors, art advisers, dealers and the rest of the art markets elite arrived to find its rituals (and sometimes themselves) representedthough not necessarily in the best light.
Artists are working with all kinds of social tissue, and the market is one form of this, says Gianni Jetzer, the curator of the fairs Unlimited section. But do such works court or