Four decades on, punk’s not dead at Art Basel
Forty years on from the birth of punk, a high-end art fair seems an unlikely place to find vestiges of its spirit. But if you look closely enough, you will find punk-inspired works across Art Basel. Punks earliest pioneers included The Fugs with their song Nothingan anti-everything nod to, well, nothing. The fairs Unlimited section includes a work by Joseph Kosuth called Titled (Art as Idea as Idea) (1968), which features the text of ten dictionary entries for the word nothing. The conceptualist
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