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Alvaro Barrington and Marc Speigler: What Makes A Great 21st Century Artist?

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Alvaro Barrington and Marc Spiegler at VOICES 2025.
Alvaro Barrington and Marc Spiegler at VOICES 2025. (Getty Images for The Business of Fashion)

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Art and fashion are strange bedfellows, but two that are increasingly intertwined, says BoF contributor and former global director of Art Basel Marc Spiegler. Spiegler sat down with Venezuelan-born, London-based artist Alvaro Barrington to discuss that intersection, what the two have in common and how their respective industries separate them.

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