via: The Blitheness of the Art World by Felix Salmon www.portfolio.com txt: Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton - www.amazon.com
A couple of tables away, amid a scruffier entourage, sat John Baldessari. The sage L.A. artist was drinking a no-nonsense vodka on the rocks with his long legs stretched out in front of him. This year he was staying at the five-star Danieli... "Now I receive a lot of invitations, but I usually say no," he said with some satisfaction... Although he despairs of the social hierarchies and the "visual overload," Baldessari has come to like Venice, in part because he has a bad sense of direction. "I'll turn the wrong way coming out of the elevator every morning," he said. "In Venice, everybody is always lost, so you don't feel bad when you pass someone you know sitting at a café for the third time in ten minutes."
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