Word: nster
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...stage sets. And if you don't find the epiphany you were hoping for here, coming up next is Art 38 Basel, Switzerland's art trade fair, a citywide aesthetic shop floor. Then there's Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, and then the Sculpture Project in Münster. Dealers, curators, critics and other determined members of the migratory art herd will be turning up at all four. There's a line from an old Stephen Sondheim song that could be their anthem. Do you know it? It goes, "Art isn't easy...
...surprisingly, local politicians and trade unionists have condemned the venture, which has chalked up 1,800 brokered deals, 10,000 registered users and thousands of hits a day, as "a slave market" and "grave threat" to the country's long-cherished social model. Its founder, Münster student Fabian Löw, 32, however, believes his website is long-overdue applied realism. "We start where the politicians stop telling people the truth," says Löw, who plans to go global in September. Wages in Germany are so high, he argues, that "it has been too expensive to create new jobs...