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Rediscovered Richter drawings at Art Basel shed light on artist's painting process
A series of sketches for the artist's monumental SDI painting of 1986 are believed to be the "only studies for an abstract painting to have survived"
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Plus, a super exclusive club, Tezos takes on 1970s tech and the door to Switzerland swings wide open
'It shouldn’t be a surprise that easily traded JPEGs are not "safe" assets': artist Sarah Meyohas on the NFT market
The French-US artist is showing a hologram sculpture with Marianne Boesky at Art Basel
New St Petersburg fair launches during Art Basel as Russia’s art scene copes with new reality
The new 1703 contemporary art fair, sponsored by the Kremlin-controlled Gazprom, overlaps exactly with the Swiss fair, which has long been a destination for Russian collectors
Interviews
The politics of luxury: Tourmaline on her powerful new photographs Art Basel
The artist and activist draws inspiration from stories of discrimination against Black and LGBT people in the US
Out in the open: Michael Armitage on how the pandemic led him to paint en plein air
The Kenyan-born British artist is showing a new body of work in his solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel
‘I find myself attracted to art with a violent component’: art adviser Sibylle Rochat on what she collects and why
Former gallerist says that works that can seem unattractive and complex at first can eventually give the most pleasure
What's on
Rare Mondrians reveal rich surprises at Basel's Fondation Beyeler
Marking the 150th anniversary of Piet Mondrian’s birth, this comprehensive exhibition explores the Dutch artist’s extraordinary capacity for reinvention
Fairtigue? Here are the art world's favourite spots to meet and eat in Basel
The best places to relax after a day of pounding the art fair "streets"
After 30 years, Brice Marden makes a timely return to Basel with a major survey at the Kunstmuseum
Exhibition reveals the American artist’s unrealised sketches from the 1980s for stained-glass windows for the city’s minster, and how his travels influenced his later work
Face to face: New exhibition in Switzerland explores how El Greco became Picasso’s ‘first love’
The deep and life-long influence of the Old Master on the Modernist is explored in an exhibition that pairs their works at the Kunstmuseum Basel
Features
The best of Design Miami/Basel, from Virgil Abloh's concrete chair to Gio Ponti's Moon Lamp
Our top six picks from the design fair across the Messeplatz from Art Basel
Making it big: six must-see works from Art Basel's Unlimited section for outsized art
From an explosive painterly sculpture to a work that evokes the West's tension with Russia
Beyond Basel's convention centre: the best public art to see (for free) during the fair
Art Basel's Parcours section places installations across the Swiss city’s Old Town
The show must go on: how artists and curators battled with global crises to reach the Venice Biennale
The pandemic, immigration problems and the fall out of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to chaos for organisers of the world's leading art exhibition