ABSTRACTING ABSTRACTION
by Charlie Finch
I don't think there has been as wide a divide between the wealth-flaunting art elite and the rest of us markers and scribblers since the reign of Rameses II. It was evident during my meander around Chelsea last Thursday night to see the opening of a few exhibitions of abstract art, a week after the auctions packed up and left town like a bejeweled travelling circus, which is, of course what the high end art world has become.
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