NewsMuseums
Blockbuster Edward Hopper show is relaunched as Swiss museums come out of 'recent slumber'
Museums in South Korea and Hong Kong have also started reopening after coronavirus lockdowns
Newscoronavirus
MCH Group postpones Baselworld watch fair as Swiss authorities ban large events over coronavirus fears
Several other trade fairs have also been cancelled in Switzerland
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
New art space in Basel will offer free shows
The opening exhibition of the Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, during next year's Art Basel fair, will focus on Caribbean artists
NewsConservation & Preservation
Aliph global protection fund announces 14 projects across multiple war zones
The Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan, Syria’s Raqqa Museum and Mosul libraries all safeguarded
NewsPolitics
Arty Swiss diplomacy? Embassy of Switzerland in London seeks mediator who can use art for peace
The successful candidate must organise an international symposium in 2021
NewsArt market
UK art market recovered in 2018, with hike in exports to UAE while trade with Switzerland declines
Global art and antiques imports and exports in and out of the UK increased last year but are yet to reach the levels seen during the 2015 peak
NewsArt market
Artgenève bridges Switzerland's language divide
Eighth edition of fair attracts more blue-chip and German-speaking Swiss galleries keen to meet Geneva's Francophone collectors
NewsArt market
Swiss prosecutor returns 'Mesopotamian' terracotta animal made by dealer's 11-year-old-daughter—along with 5,000 seized antiquities
A further 6,000 items belonging to Ali Aboutaam of Phoenix Ancient Art are still held by authorities in Geneva
ArchiveSwitzerland
Swiss centre set to open in Lens to honour Pierre Arnaud
The new arts centre will present two annual exhibitions, starting with 'Divisionism'
ArchiveUnesco
Switzerland to implement 1970 UNESCO Convention legislation on 1st June
Switzerland’s is known for its pivotal presence in the underground network that moves illicitly excavated artefacts from country to country
ArchiveArt Basel
Harald Szeemann remembered at Art Basel
At a function in honour of the prolific curator, friend Guido Magnaguagno recounted their time together fondly
ArchiveRestitution
Books: Restitution justice, American style
Two books reveal the complexities involved in restitution
ArchiveUnesco
Long the hub of the illicit antiquities trade, Switzerland is moving towards ratification of the 1970 Unesco Convention
Switzerland also debating new national legislation to make the movement of art and artefacts more transparent
ArchiveLetters
Delacroix fraud warning from catalogue raisonné author
Lee Johnson advises that false documentation bearing his name is being circulated
ArchiveAlberto Giacometti
Giacometti's expressions of moment-to-moment mortal experience to be subject of centenary exhibition at the Fondation de l'Hermitage
While the retrospective spans every stage of his career, his portraits of Robert Sainsbury and other members of the Sainsbury Family constitute the focal point
ArchiveCollectors
Swiss say philanthropist collector is senile and have blocked his foundations, art and money
Legal battle over Dr Gustav Rau’s paintings, which he wants to give to Unicef, and which are on loan to Paris
ArchiveJoseph Beuys
Beuys display on view at Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Don't miss the Beuys next door
ArchiveSwitzerland
Collection withdrawn from Swiss museums in protest against Unidroit
Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth gets twenty-six works from the blue-chip Staechelin collection on a three-year loan
ArchiveRestitution
Swiss bank accounts trace Nazi art deals
Newly declassified records track the deposit of Nazi assets in Swiss banks—they include references to works of art
ArchiveExhibitions
What's on in Switzerland: Good Rothko and Mark Tobey shows
In a quiet month a chance to see some classic modern art
ArchiveSwitzerland
What's on in Switzerland: Johns, Gorky, Modigliani and light
The arts continue to flourish despite deep cuts to grants