Art Basel: are the buyers back? Plus, Mary Beard on images of power, and Christo and Jeanne-Claudes LArc de Triomphe, Wrapped
b'This week: the Art Basel fair has opened in Switzerland, but are the collectors back and are they buying? We talk to Jane Morris, an editor-at-large at The Art Newspaper, about the art on show and whether the galleries\\u2019 jitters ahead of the fair have proved founded. Also, we hear from the classicist Mary Beard about her new book, Twelve Caesars, looking at representations of power across 2,000 years of art history, from Roman coins and busts, to 18th-century fakes, lost Titian masterpieces and Tudor tapestries. And in this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week, we focus on Christo and Jeanne-Claude\\u2019s L\\u2019Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped\\u2014the last ever wrapping project by the late duo. Vladimir Yavachev, Christo\\u2019s nephew, who has overseen the final stages of the project in Paris, describes the technical challenges of cloaking one of Paris\\u2019s most famous monuments.
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