I Had the Coronavirus. It Changed My View of the Art World.

Was it the trip to the Middle East? The Arlene Shechet opening in New York? It probably wasn’t Frieze L.A….
Everyone keeps asking me where I caught the coronavirus. The answer is: I don’t know.
What I do know is that on Wednesday, March 4, I started to feel sick. Nothing particularly alarming. Chills, a cough, body aches.
That was a month ago, but it feels like a different era.
The following night I called Julian Schnabel to tell him I couldn’t make it to his opening at