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When Swiss traditional customs offer up a mirror to the ridiculous

This content was published on Mar 6, 2026 French photographer Charles Fréger has produced images that reflect Swiss winter rites while posing questions about the present-day.

The modern apartment, assembled at the Art and History Museum in Geneva for the exhibition "And it began so marvellously". More than a historical movement, Modernism became a marker of taste, refinement, and connoisseurship. Its influence extends to today’s fascination with secondhand Modernist furniture.

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One size does not fit all: Zurich architects reevaluate Modernism’s legacy

This content was published on Jan 4, 2026 Le Corbusier never rests in peace: two professors from ETH Zurich discuss how to reframe the forgotten narratives and exclusions that lie beneath Modernist architecture.

Opening day of Art Basel Paris at the Grand Palais last October: the French capital became the most exclusive venue of the world's leading art fair, but the money and the glitter are flowing to the Persian Gulf.

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Swiss arts outlook for 2026: the perks of inequality

This content was published on Jan 2, 2026 From record inheritances to Gulf power plays, 2026 promises to be a year when money talks louder than ever in the cultural arena.

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Spiders, puppets and avatars explore Zurich’s digital ‘Museum of the Future’

This content was published on Dec 29, 2025 Visitors can plunge into a medieval battle, step into the world of a spider, and even engage with an uncanny avatar that mirrors their own identity.

The four-metre-long painting "Sonntag der Bergbauern" [Sunday of the Mountain Farmers, 1923-24/26] had to be removed by a crane from the German Chancellery in Berlin for the exhibition in Bern.

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: a ‘true German artist’ who found peace in Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 14, 2025 Nearly a century after a solo exhibition that Kirchner curated himself in Bern, the Swiss capital is revisiting that show – with some help from the German chancellor.

Two Philippe Jaccard paintings side by side

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The extraordinary destiny of a former Swiss police officer who became an artist

This content was published on Dec 13, 2025 The astonishing journey of Philippe Jaccard, an ex-cop turned artist, whose rediscovered works are on display in Brussels.

Art Basel Paris at the Grand Palais in Oct., 2025

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I hit the Art Basel superfecta

This content was published on Dec 10, 2025 A critic survives the four-season journey to the premium art fair in Hong Kong, Basel, Paris and now Miami Beach. Here are his takeaways.

Documenting Sri Lankan artifacts stored in Basel: it was just supposed to be a research for an art project that became a film that became a diplomatic conundrum.

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Sri Lankan artist challenges Swiss museums over looted heritage

This content was published on Nov 27, 2025 The documentary Elephants & Squirrels exposes Switzerland’s uneasy reckoning with its colonial entanglements.

Scene of "Rave", Patrick Muroni's VR film.

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Swiss filmmakers take on virtual reality to draw viewers into ecstasy and exile

This content was published on Nov 21, 2025 Domenico Singha Pedroli and Patrick Muroni ask what cinema becomes when audiences no longer watch from a distance but step inside the story.

A reconstruction of the studio of Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti at the Institut Giacometti in Paris.

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Works of Swiss artist Giacometti in Paris headed for new, grander museum

This content was published on Nov 1, 2025 The Giacometti Museum is set to open in 2028 on the Esplanade des Invalides in central Paris, a prestigious location for an artist who spent most of his life working in a modest studio.

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