Oh La La! Interrupts Regular Programming at Art Basel Paris for Playful Provocation

For the first time since it landed in Paris two years ago, Art Basel has taken up the freshly renovated Grand Palais. On this occasion, the fair has launched a new initiative dubbed Oh La La! As a French woman lucky enough to travel the world, I wondered, ‘why not call the initiative ‘Ooh La La!’, an expression that, though rarely uttered in France, is treated as a quintessential French exclamation abroad.“As a non-French-speaker, I could not say, but I realized that some