A Month Before Art Basel Paris Opens, Director Clément Delépine Unveils the Program

Next month, Art Basel Paris—rebranded from the unwieldy Paris+ par Art Basel—will inaugurate the newly renovated Grand Palais. The fair comes amid a wave of optimism in the City of Lights after a largely successful Olympic Games this summer, with hopes that it might restore some energy to an art market grown stagnant amid high interest rates, wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and the American presidential election.“There is definitely a dynamism in Paris right now, which is palpable,&r