Claudia Comte, Now I won (2017) on the Messeplatz outside Art Basel.

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You can see Claudia Comtes Now I Won (2017) from far down the road up to the convention center here in Basel, Switzerland, and eventually the wooden stakes atop a turf-covered structure reveal themselves to be spelling out the name of the piece in a manner that shows the artist triumphantly asserting her dominance over the towns main Messepaltz and perhaps Art Basel as a whole.

As aninstallation for the entrance to the fair, however, this one is business in the front, party in the back. Thats because once you go around you realize you have entered the Fun Fair, where art aficionadoscan play darts, shoot mini-golf, throw stuff in knockdown toss, or arm wrestle all to gain points and potential prizessuch as a sculpture. Theres also a booth called Dance or Die, in which a DJ is spinning tunes and those around are askedto bust moves(or, less appealingly, die).

If this seems likea little too much Art Basel Miami Beach for Art Basel in Basel, just wait until you get to the last booth: the Fun Fair Shot Bar, which announces in big letters SLURP EM UP. This, readers, will be the only time I will get to reference the fair-weather resort town denof hedonism that is the chain restaurantSeor Frogs in the context of an art fair on the Rhine, but the Fun Fair Show Bars list is straight out ofSeor Frogs. The bartenders are wearing T-shirts and sunglasses, and everything is very chill.

Here are your options, and its advised that you choose two and take them both at once, which is a monstrously horrifying proposition Ill probably entertainat some point this week regardless. Slurp away.

Images of the bar below.

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