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A city at the centre of the international art world
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Art Basel is one of the world’s leading art fairs, bringing together art lovers, gallery owners, dealers, collectors and artists in the “largest temporary museum”. For this year’s fair, the 39th, more than 5,000 works by over 2,000 artists of the 20th and 21st centuries are on show. Impressions. (Pictures and text: Christoph Balsiger, swissinfo)
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