Artist Birthday: Le Corbusier
If any one architect’s body of work sums up the development of the International Style, it would be that of Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier filled the world with elegant, geometric and organic, l ...
Read Article
< Back to Curator's Corner
Curator's Corner
Artist Birthday: Jost Amman
Like the German Renaissance, the Swiss Renaissance witnessed the flourishing of all the graphic arts, which included woodcut, engraving, etching, and drawing. One of the rich characteristics of German ...
Read Article
Curator's Corner
World Bicycle Day: Josef Müller-Brockmann
Starting in the late 1800s, posters began to be designed by fine artists, and what ensued what has been called the Poster Renaissance. After World War II, Swiss artists developed the International Typ ...
Read Article
Curator's Corner
Swiss National Day Bundesfeier: Le Corbusier
The first of August (Erschten Ougschte in Bernese) is the Swiss “Independence Day,” celebrating the establishment of the first Swiss Confederation of thirteen cantons (districts) seeking l ...
Read Article
Curator's Corner
Something Swiss This Way Comes: Pipilotti Rist
The first of August, this past Saturday, is Switzerland's "Independence Day," so I’m presenting a Swiss installation artist: Pipilotti Rist. The typical luxuriant colors of her vi ...
Read Article
Curator's Corner
Workus Interruptus (Vacation): Art from Switzerland
Even though I’m half Swiss, I’m not really a Swissaholic. I just happen to see a lot of art that happens to be from Switzerland that also happens to be worth sharing. I’m going on va ...
Read Article
