🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: For one week every June, Basel becomes the temporary capital of the global art world. Yet the 2026 edition of Art Basel fells different. More than a marketplace, it presents itself as a laboratory for the transformations currently shaping contemporary art: the emergence of digital native audience, …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: The 2026 Venice Biennale was meant to unfold in a minor key. Conceived by Koyo Kouoh -the first African woman to be appointed artistic director of the exhibition-it proposes a radical shift away from spectacle and towards listening, repair, intimacy and attention. In her curatorial statement, Kouoh …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Few artists have challenged the conventions of exhibition-making as radically as Huyghe. Since 1990s, he has steadily abandoned the idea of the artwork as a fixed object. Instead, he creates situations: environments inhabited by animals, algorithms, microorganisms, weather conditions, artificial intelligence, and human visitors. At Beyeler, this …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article HOW CHRISTIE’S STAGED BRANCUSI LIKE A HOLLYWOOD FILM When Constantin Brancusi’s Danaide crossed the $107 million at Christie’s in May 2026, the sale became more than a market evet. It revelated how the contemporary auction house now operates through cinematic storytelling, celebrity aura, and mythology. Nicole Kidman’s presence in …
🔊 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: 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: 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 …
Post-pandemic shifts, local powerhouses, and the rise of the local art fairs as a global art-fair beacon. Nazli Kok Akbas, Art Editor, Geneva-Switzerland 🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: The art fair has survived the pandemic, but it was not emerged unchanged. Once dominated by a relentless calendar of mega-fairs, the post-pandemic art …
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🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: WHERE THE EARTH BECAMES IMAGE Nazli Kok Akbas, Art Editor, Geneva-Switzerland Julien Peltier’s artistic journey begins long before the studio, in a landscape shaped by family, memory, and a quiet attention to the natural world. Born and raised in France, he grew up in very close connection …
🔊 Listen to this article Share this article: Nazli Kok Akbas, Art Editor, GENEVA- SWITZERLAND Between intellectual precision and quiet intuition, Karin Handlbauer has shaped a singular voice within the Geneva’s contemporary art scene. Originally trained as an art historian in Austria, she founded Mezzanin Gallery in Vienna before relocating to Geneva, where she continues to …