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Art Basel is a for-profit, privately owned and managed, international art fair staged annually in Basel (Switzerland), Miami Beach (US), Hong Kong and Paris. Art Basel provides a platform for galleries to show and sell their work to buyers, and works in collaboration with host cities' local institutions to help grow and develop art programs.
Kunsthalle Basel is a contemporary art gallery in Basel, Switzerland. As Switzerland's oldest and still most active institution for contemporary art established in the year of 1872, Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel's cultural centre and is located next to the city's theatre and opposite the concert house Stadtcasino.
In 1980 the Museum joined forces with the Museum for Contemporary Art, which displays artworks from the 1960s onwards. It was the first museum focused on contemporary art at the time. [5] In 2006, the Swiss dealer Eberhard Kornfeld donated his Rembrandt collection, including more than 100 etchings, to the Kunstmuseum Basel. [13]
The Museum of Contemporary Art (German: Museum für Gegenwartskunst) in Basel (Switzerland) opened in 1980 as the first public museum in Europe exclusively dedicated to the production and practice of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. It is a heritage site of national significance. [1] In addition to classic media such as painting ...
26 October 2024 until 9 February - Magritte at the Art Gallery of New South Wales [2] January 10 until March 16 - Nick Cave: Amalgams and Graphts at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City. [3] January 18 until June 1 - Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World is a Mystery at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [4]
With the creation of the Basel-Country Art Museum (Kunsthaus Baselland) in Muttenz, the Basel-Country Art Association (Kunstverein Baselland) was given its own dedicated exhibition building in 1997. The Art Museum is devoted to contemporary art and presents temporary exhibitions of current projects by regional and international artists. [ 33 ]
The Skulpturhalle Basel is a museum in Basel, Switzerland, featuring cast replicas of antique sculpture. With around 2,000 casts, it is the largest collection of its kind in the country, due to its tripling in size between 1985 and 2010. Since 1961, the collection has been managed by the Antikenmuseum Basel. The collection was started in 1830.
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. [ 1 ]