The art greeting the hordes at Art Basel’s official opening today looks completely different from the wares at yesterday’s VIP vernissage, or at least in the booths of the bluest-chip dealers — the complete restocking is a testament to the amount of work that sold at the fast-paced preview.
Pace Gallery now has a massive de Kooning painting and new Sterling Ruby works, plus Donald Judd Cor-ten steel boxes. Hauser & Wirth replaced a giant pink Paul McCarthy with a small and black — but no less grotesque — example by the artist, as well as a trio of Guillermo Kuitca map mattresses. Marian Goodman hung different John Baldessari works. But Gagosian had perhaps the most dramatic rehang of all, swapping in a Richard Serra paintstick drawing, a giant Andreas Gursky, a gilded Rudolf Stingel, and a Twombly.

