Considering the dozens of languages, thousands of artworks and billions of dollars coursing through the tent at Frieze New York — the second edition of which opened to the public on Friday and runs through Monday — you might expect the fair to offer a decisive statement about what matters in art right now.
"None of us expected the Asian fair to be the huge success it's been since Day 1," said Khalil Rizk, director of the Chinese Porcelain Company in Manhattan.
One wonders what else they might have in mind; certainly dollar devaluation is a possibility, as is subsidy programmes and tax breaks though one suspects that none of those options would be popular if presented individually.Obviously, it's not fair to expect the average American to have a coherent view of how best to achieve certain economic goals.
It's official name is Brussels Universal and International Exposition 1958, the "universal" meaning that it "embrases all human activities," in the phrase of an international convention governing fairs that was signed in Paris in '28, Forty-odd nations are expected at the Fair, as well as seven supranational exhibitors.
"We expected the Americans to be fair," said Yemane Gebre Meskel, the chief of staff for Isaias Afwerki, Eritrea's president.
Election officials and foreign diplomats all said they expected the voting to be fair, while opposition officials say the lack of competition means there is no need to rig them as they maintain Mr. Bashir has done in the past.
"Nobody expected the election to be free, fair and peaceful, because the conditions for that don't exist," said Balarabe Musa, a former governor of Kaduna and a frequent critic of Nigeria's ruling elite.
Ms Turton said: "We really thought we could trust the Egyptian judicial system to be fair and expected the judge to come out and say he had found us not guilty, because he recognised these were politically motivated charges.
The hospital's founder, Mr. Shea, an American who resembles a football coach more than a health worker, was outraged because one of the employees had failed to purchase enough hygiene kits — freebies the villagers had come to expect at the fair.
People tend to opt for the maximum total reward (as you'd expect from the fair-minded citizen), but they also show a tendency to maximise the difference between the groups (what you'd expect from the prejudiced cousin).
