The Face Vol.4 #20. Winter 2024

The Face Vol.4 #20. Winter 2024 We’re in the Grand Palais, Paris’ historic exhibition hall: a cavernous space with an arching roof and glass skylights that feel like a train station in a fairy tale. It’s VIP day at Art Basel Paris, mostly high-end collectors, and the room is filled with some of the most expensive fine art pieces in the world. Julie Mehretu’s gorgeously grey painting Insile, for example, sells for $9.5 million later that afternoon. Dainty, bespectacled Parisians shuffle in clusters; prospective buyers in natty blazers huddle in corners. Then, there’s Yeat. Flanked by bodyguards, the rapper from Fullerton, California, drifts languidly through the maze of installations, clad in a long, black Vetements jacket, silver skull chain, black pants and a black Kangol beret.