Category: Art

Fewer Americans at Art Basel

The case The latest customs rules have made buying art more difficult. Source: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 23. June 2025 The commentary When compared to the figures of last year, the decline of 3 % in the number of visitors flocking...

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Vivian Suter

The case Vivian Suter was born in Buenos Aires in 1949 to exiled European parents. When she was 12, during the Peròn regime, her family relocated to Basel, where she studied painting. In 1982 she travelled through the USA and...

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Wolfgang Tillmans

The case Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us. Source: The Centre Pompidou The commentary From 13 June to 22 September 2025, the Centre Pompidou is giving German artist Wolfgang Tillmans free rein...

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Günther Uecker

The case Born in 1930 in Wendorf, Mecklenburg, Günther Uecker began studying painting at the decorative arts college in Wismar in 1949 and moved on to the art school in Berlin-Weißensee. In 1953 Uecker became one of the first...

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We Are Here!

The case In the exhibition We Are Here! at Haus Konstruktiv is celebrating its move to Löwenbräukunst-Areal, after almost 25 years in the ewz Unterwerk Selnau building. Source: Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich – 16.5.–28.9.2025...

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Alberto Giacometti

The case The Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA) in Lausanne has been given 17 sculptures by Alberto Giacometti that used to form part of an anonymous private collection. Source: SRF II & MCBA The commentary These works are...

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Magna Carta

The case An extraordinarily rare original of Magna Carta has been discovered, hiding in plain sight in the archives of the Harvard Law School, where it was mislabeled as a mere copy of the document that served as a foundational...

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Sir Richard Julian Long

The case Richard Long in the Monastery Church Schönthal (BL) from 1 May to 7 December2025. Source: Kloster Schönthal 1145 & Richard Long The commentary Long’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in the act of walking....

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Anselm Kiefer

The case For the first time in their history, the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam have joined forces to stage a major exhibition of one of the most important artists of our time: Anselm Kiefer. Source: Van...

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