The Market: Goodbye Paris, Hello New York

For a fortnight, French newspapers and art journals have been sputtering with rage. The ostensible rub, as summed up in the Paris newspaper Libeération, is that "a clique of dealers from overseas has, with the delicacy of a bulldozer and the discretion of an atomic bomb, given the Venice Biennale's most authoritative prize to the 'made-in-U.S.A.' stuff one calls 'pop art.' France won not a single prize of any importance. So much the better. French art has nothing in common with this trash." Hotheadlined Les Lettres Francaises: AMERICAN OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE SCHOOL...