Arts CH
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One of a regular panel including Jane Seckel, Katherin Friedli, Tracy O’Dwyer and Olga Stefan joins Conor Lennon for a look at the week in arts and culture.
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Arts CH: Brand new VitraHaus + Kodo workshopTuesday, 23 February, 2010The latest exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum near Basel is all about simplicity. Pascale Hartmann has been to tell us about it, but she starts with a complicated conundrum:
Arts CH: 10 artists in one StoneBundleTuesday, 19 January, 2010Editor Pierre Paquet has invited Die Artillerie—10 artists and comic book artists from Munich—to show their paintings, drawings and books in his gallery/bookstore StoneBundle (61 rue des Bains) in Geneva until February 1. Pascale Hartmann tells us why you should race over to see it before it’s gone.
Arts CH: Dutch art comes to GenevaTuesday, 12 January, 2010Jane Seckel walks us through Art and its markets: Flemish and Dutch painting of the 17th and 18th century on display at the Geneva Musée d’Art et d’Histoire through August 29.
Arts CH: Ticinese head north as canton hibernatesTuesday, 5 January, 2010Ticino-based correspondent Cristina Foglia heads to Graubünden for cultural enlightenment, her own canton having seemingly shut down for the winter:
Arts CH: Designing typeTuesday, 15 December, 2009Pascale Hartmann meets François Rappo at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne (Ecal). He is one of the 2 Heads of the new Masters in Art Direction, he teaches type design. Two of his former students won a Swiss federal design Award this year. They show and explain their research work in a book presented at the Mudac Lausanne on January 19 at 17:00.
Arts CH: Jenny HolzerTuesday, 17 November, 2009Pascale Hartmann has been to the Jenny Holzer exhibition at the Zurich’s Beyeler Foundation and has spoken to the artist as well:
Arts CH: Art Zurich 2009Tuesday, 10 November, 2009Conor Lennon hears from Zurich-based arts correspondent Aoife Rosenmeyer about this year’s edition of the Zurich’s premier arts event.
Arts CH: Photographing disease and deathTuesday, 20 October, 2009Pascale Hartmann joins Conor Lennon to discuss a unashamedly morbid exhibition at the Fotomuseum in Winterthur, Darkside 2: Photographic power and violence, Disease and Death photographed
Strings Attached: Lausanne Bach FestivalThursday, 15 October, 2009Conor Lennon talks to Isabelle Watson from Radio Suisse Romande’s culture station Espace 2 about the return of Lausanne’s famous festival dedicated to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, which this year explores the relationship between Bach and his great contemporary, George Friedrich Handel.
Arts CH: Villa Sovietica, GenevaTuesday, 13 October, 2009Jane Seckel visits an unusual exhibition promoted by Geneva’s Musée d’Ethnographie (MEG) in Conches, which features an unusually mundane collection of artefacts arranged to form a striking evocation of life in Soviet Russia.