Drama and trauma 2001
The art world has had its own share of drama and trauma during
2001. Of course, looming over all that took place is the terrorist
attack on the World Trade Center (see article, September 11:
European Thoughts, September 2001). New York City has changed
the way we think in a new century — so rudely christened into
barbarism — profoundly. But a number of significant occurrences
developed in the second half of the first year of this millennium
to jog previously sanctioned assumptions. These were quite apart
from the case against leading salesrooms in New York, accused of
cartel and price-fixing arrangements.
