Around the galleries in Geneva’s Old Town
At the intimate, dealer-led event known as Art en Vieille-Ville, everything from Old Masters to surreal photographs is on offer
 
					At the intimate, dealer-led event known as Art en Vieille-Ville, everything from Old Masters to surreal photographs is on offer
 
					Public and curatorial interest in the avant-garde movement shows no signs of abating but the market is less stable
 
					The Plateforme 10 project has brought the city’s fine arts, design and photo museums together on the site of a former train yard
 
					The arts centre’s new restaurant is not exactly a feast for the eyes, but the food more than makes up for it
 
					At the Kronenhalle in Zurich, the writer was most likely to ask for Fendant de Sion, a wine that deserves to be much better known abroad
 
					After a spell in the doldrums, prices for magnificent carpets from across the continent are starting to soar again
 
					The Swedish artist is now fêted as a pioneer of abstract art, but her spiritual inclinations are what really resonate today
 
					When we think of the biblical folly, it’s Pieter Breugel the Elder’s painting that first comes to mind – but artists and writers are still reimagining it today
 
					At the MAH in Geneva, the artist Ugo Rondinone has rehung Le Sommeil to bring its livelier side to the fore, explains curator Samuel Gross
 
					The sculptor was regarded as too sensual by classicists and too cold by Romantics, but a more superficial look at his work suggests what he was really up to
 
					The naturalist sketched his discoveries with unmatched dedication, but was unlucky to lose so many of the original specimens at sea
 
					British folk rituals have often required the wearing of outlandish outfits, some of which have remained unchanged for centuries
 
					Securing the services of Willem Van de Velde and his son was a coup for Charles II – and it put wind in the sails of England’s own maritime art tradition
 
					The painter’s works invite us to marvel at the mysteries of perception – and we will never see so many of them in the same place again
 
					A book of original sources about the painter is a tribute to both a great artist and a great art historian
 
					The attempts of the master journalist to focus on her own past are as intriguing and oblique as the rest of her work