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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Art and Money
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Technical note: we take a short break after the post below. No further posts here till … Continue reading
The Art of Building
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 27 June 2012 Anon out of the earth a Fabrick huge Rose like an Exhalation……… … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Switzerland
Tagged Art Basel, Baselworld, Herzog and de Meuron, Messe Basel, Milton, Tatlin, Theo Holz
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Ars longa
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 25 June 2012 Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή, ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς, ἡ … Continue reading
Basel Classics 2
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Posted in Art, Switzerland
Tagged Cy Twombly, Fred Sandback, Jannis Kounellis, John Chamberlain, Mike Nelson, Olaf Breuning, Sean Scully, Wolfgang Laib
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Basel Classics 1
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 23 June 2012 And so to the Modern Classics, the Modern Greats. Some reports at the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Switzerland
Tagged Alexander Calder, Franz West, Gagosian, Hans Mayer, Joseph Beuys, Mark Rothko
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Pushing the envelope
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 22 June 2012 PUSHING THE ENVELOPE “Men are from Murmansk…Women are from Vilnius” Citation displayed at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Switzerland
Tagged Anne Koskinnen, Antony Gormley, Bernardí Roig, Doug Aitken, Petteri Nisunen, Raster Gallery, Tommi Grönland
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Ladder
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. After a number of production hitches, we are now ready to resume our normal daily service, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Switzerland
Tagged ArtBasel, Gavin Turk, Marina Abramović, performance art
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Those were the days!
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Posted in Europe, UK
Tagged Australia, British Commonwealth, Chipping Norton, Elvis, Lonnie Donegan, Marvin Gaye, New Zeland, Ted Heath
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Big Brother
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Basel, 15 June 2012 It is often energising to do something different from what one normally … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Switzerland
Tagged 1984, Art Basel, Big Brother, George Orwell, Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, Sophocles
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Death of Pericles
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Special note: we have had to interrupt our coverage of the Basel international art fair … Continue reading