🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: A STRANGE BALANCE OF THE 2025 ART MARKET; MORE ART LESS MONEY! The latest Art Basel& UBS Global Art Market Report 2026, written by economist Clare McAndrew, describes a year in which art market did something unusual; it shrank in value but expanded in activity. This paradox was the …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: At Kunstmuseum Basel, Swiss Artist Marc Bauer presents Fear Rage Desire, Still Standing, a powerful exhibition that connects queer history with the emotional urgency of the present. Through monumental charcoal wall drawings, layered narratives, and raw expressive imagery, Bauer explores how identities are shaped by fear, resistance, and resilience. The works unfold …
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🔊 Listen to this article In moments of geopolitical escalation, attention gravities -understandibly- to borders, oil routes, airspace closures, and diplomatic rhetoric. Yet beneath the visible theatre of war lies another quieter front: MUSEUMS. There are several hundred museums and heritage sites in the Gulf region and in the conflict zone around Iran. Saudi Arabia reports …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: There are exhibitions that celebrate a master, and there are exhibitions that quietly reorganize our perception and understanding of art history. The current exhibition at The Beyeler, Foundation, Basel, devoted to Paul Cezanne belongs to second category. In the luminous architecture of Riehen, Cezanne does not appear …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: In the past months, Louvre Museum has not been in the headlines for an exhibition, but for a chain of unsetting events. A spectacular heist in the Galerie d’Apollon -involving jewels once associated with Empress Eugenie shock the public. Then came revelations of long-running ticket fraud. Shortly …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: While the MAMCO building in Geneva is closed for a major renovation -planned to last several years and modernize the space of the museum standards, the institution has launched a series of-site projects and exhibitions across Switzerland. Instead of pausing its program entirely, MAMCO is presenting parts of its collection …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: From the contemplative silence of medieval devotional panels to the sumptuous surface pleasure of Baroque portraiture and still life, the exhibition, LIFE IN FULL, OLD MASTERS FROM DUCCIO TO LIOTARD offers a rare and generous survey of six centuries of European painting drawn from the Kunstmuseum Bern’s rich holdings. Curated …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Building the Market Before the Collectors; Art Basel’s arrival in Qatar marks a decisive shift in how global art infrastructure is imagined, deployed, and legitimized. Unlike Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong, or Paris, Doha does not emerge from a dense, historically layered gallery ecosystem, nor from a …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: THE MUSEUM RE-OBSERVED; For the sixth time, the MAH Geneva has entrusted its collections to an artist through its Carte Blanche program, an initiative that invites a singular artist vision to re-interpret the museum from within. Conceived by Museum’s director as a space of radical openness, the Carte Blanche is not …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article Time and image have always shared a secret affinity. At the beginning of 2026, Geneva became the capital of haute horlogerie and an increasingly significant art hub. These threads came together in a way that feels less like marketing and more like cultural symbiosis, through Piaget’s ongoing …
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