He is flooded with party invitations and has appeared on best-dressed lists in Vanity Fair.
It used to be that collectors, dealers and exhibiting artists showed up in Basel, about 50 miles away, the night before the fair's invitation-only preview day, which was held last Tuesday for 8,000 V.I.P.'s, including Brad Pitt, Owen Wilson, the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and Sheik Saud al-Thani, a cousin of the emir of Qatar.
Guidance counselors describe more visits to high school college fairs and invitations to visit foreign campuses.
This summer, the Copenhagen-born artist Jeppe Hein has turned Brooklyn Bridge Park into a fun fair, at the invitation of the Public Art Fund.
The strangest of Tymoshenko's schemes to insure a "fair election" was an invitation to Georgian election observers.
Despite recent stock market fluctuations, disasters in Japan and unrest in the Arab world, tens of thousands of art lovers have flocked to the soulless convention center here since the fair opened with an invitation-only preview on Thursday.
The invitation-only fair features over 100 works from 64 artists representing 27 countries from the continent and diaspora.
Ali Kerimli, leader of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan, noted that when Mr. Aliyev was elected in 2003 in a vote deemed neither free nor fair, the White House withheld an invitation, awaiting improvement by Azerbaijan in promoting civil society and recognizing human rights.
"It's no secret that Obamacare hasn't lived up to the hype: All across the country premiums have spiked, millions have lost their insurance and their doctors, and, what's worse, we're continually being sold a bundle of lies about how great Obamacare has been for our generation!" reads an invitation to the fair.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) commented only on 15 stories, just over 1%. Figure 8 shows that there is no correlation at all between support for cancer research in the United Kingdom and invitations to comment, except for Cancer Research UK and the Department of Health (UK), for which the invitations are in fair proportion.
Dealers who arrived at the fair, which opened for an invitation-only preview on March 15, fretful that the economic woes of the euro zone would cut into sales, seemed to breathe more easily when big-ticket items sold quickly.
