What went wrong
- Three parallel projects and no shared vision: the cousins only talk at dinner.
- No cost estimate: the gallerist’s contract arrives in week nine, too late to change course.
- The same marquee ordered from two different suppliers, lost in debates about shades of white.
- An online show planned without counting bandwidth, storage and security: “minimum spend, maximum return” only on paper.
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