At Art Basel, you have three days, perhaps four if you skip the VIP dinners where the wine is excellent but the conversation is about shipping logistics. You will walk miles, develop opinions about lighting, and at some point stand before a work of genuine significance while thinking only about where to find those elusive water dispensers. There are two ways to "do" Basel weekend. The first is through the laminated floor plan and military pace that leaves you seeing nothing; or the second, admitting you cannot see everything and deciding, with surgical precision, where to aim your attention. So consider this a field guide for the time-pressed and the aesthetically overstimulated—the booths and programs where the work actually rewards the looking, and where you might, if you're lucky, forget to check your phone! Max Hertzler: Andre Butzer, Eleanor Swordy, and Albert Oelen When we think of Andre Butzer, we..
