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...stunt, it turned out, had been organized by Greenpeace to protest an old industrial dump near Basel that was said to be leaking chemical waste into the groundwater. The barrel carried water from a source by the dump in which, protesters said, they had found traces of drugs made by Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant that Vasella leads as chairman...
...Christian Dior were famously inspired by artists like Jean Cocteau and Christian Bérard. But in the current age of opulence, in which contemporary artworks sell at auction for tens and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars, the relationship has become even more entwined. Art fairs like Miami Art Basel and the Venice Biennale have emerged as important marketplaces for luxury brands like Gucci, Cartier and Bulgari. A fashion-forward designer like Jacobs works with trailblazing artists like Prince and Japan's Takashi Murakami...
...case is more complex than most restitution claims. Nathan and his brother Benjamin were not just private owners, but dealers with a thriving art gallery in their hometown of Dieren in the east of the country. They continued to buy and sell art throughout the war, even if from Basel, Switzerland, where Nathan moved his family in 1942. Many of their dealings were with Nazi art procurer Alois Miedl, who bought art for Hermann Goering and others. "Everyone says Nathan Katz's sales were voluntary, that he collaborated," says Cees van Hoore, a reporter for the Haarlems Dagblad who broke...
...also take courses at Art Paris-Abu Dhabi in the U.A.E. (Nov. 26-28) and Art Basel Miami Beach (Dec. 6-8), where attendees will visit other fairs and private collections in the city. Fees start at $2,030; tel: (44-20) 7462 3253; www.sothebysinstitute.com...
...wonders, at other times an emporium of the second-rate and the inscrutable, with the significant difference that it takes place in Venice, that most magnificent of stage sets. And if you don't find the epiphany you were hoping for here, coming up next is Art 38 Basel, Switzerland's art trade fair, a citywide aesthetic shop floor. Then there's Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, and then the Sculpture Project in Münster. Dealers, curators, critics and other determined members of the migratory art herd will be turning up at all four. There's a line from...