The world of John Derian has been described as a modern-day wunderkammer, the German word for “cabinet of curiosities.” It’s a fitting fate for a daydreamer who grew up in a family of ...
The Decay of Beauty. The Beauty of Decay, a compact but ambitious exhibition at Colnaghi Gallery, examines the concept of beauty and its inevitable decay across pan-historical, pan-geographical, and ...
Incontestably, Marclay has created a singular and unprecedented work. However, It’s possible to see one aspect of it as a modern reimagining of the clockwork automata of the Wunderkammer in which ...
Among insiders, the cozy restaurant Elsbethenstübli is considered a bijou of the Basel gastro scene. The restaurant is city and internationally renowned for its seasonal and traditional Swiss dishes.
Basel got a new landmark in 1977 when Jean Tinguely placed some amusing machine sculptures in an enormous pool of water on the site where the stage of the old city theatre was once located.
‘From the quirky arrangements of its six columns [which the building is named after - and which nod to Berthold Lubetkin’s 1930s modernist house Six Pillars on the nearby Dulwich Estate], to the loose ...
Luca Pignatelli (born 22 June 1962 in Milan) is an Italian artist known for his work that blends classical and contemporary imagery, creating a "Theatre of Memory." ...