GenevaLunch » art http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 25 May 2012 22:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Jeff Koons challenges Beyeler visitors on definition of arthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/14/jeff-koons-challenges-beyeler-visitors-on-definition-of-art/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/14/jeff-koons-challenges-beyeler-visitors-on-definition-of-art/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 19:07:43 +0000 Paula Dupraz http://genevalunch.com/?p=70180 GenevaLunch.com RIEHEN, SWITZERLAND –  A retrospective of the controversial American artist Jeff Koons opened to the public Sunday 13 May at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, near Basel, and the artist encourages viewers to engage in a dialogue with his work. Koons’ work, presented here for the first time in Switzerland, includes “hybrids”, as he calls [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/14/jeff-koons-challenges-beyeler-visitors-on-definition-of-art/feed/ 0 Australian wine tasting eveninghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/australian-wine-tasting-evening/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/australian-wine-tasting-evening/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 08:34:20 +0000 admin http://genevalunch.com/?p=69699 GenevaLunch.com An evening of Australian wine-tasting, art and music. Galerie Racines, Bretigny, Pays de Gex. Wines from la Vinothèque du Léman, St Genis Pouilly. 10 Euros entry. RSVP: austfest@gmail.com

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/05/02/australian-wine-tasting-evening/feed/ 0 Montreux strips down to the rich basicshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/16/montreux-strips-down-to-the-rich-basics/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/16/montreux-strips-down-to-the-rich-basics/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:57:14 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=66729 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – The Montreux Jazz Festival likes to surprise and this year’s poster will startle more than one concert-lover. American photographer Greg Gorman has created the first MJF poster to feature a photographic image since 1967, the first year of the festival. This year’s poster, says Gorman, focuses on the contemplative experience of listening [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/02/16/montreux-strips-down-to-the-rich-basics/feed/ 0 Between Summit and Skyhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/between-summit-and-sky/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/between-summit-and-sky/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:51:17 +0000 admin http://genevalunch.com/?p=63501 GenevaLunch.com Drawing on the alpine vistas of the four valleys, Stephanie Noble brings her latest exhibition: “Between Summit and Sky,” to Verbier’s Nanuq Gallery. Meet the artist on 17 December 17 at 16:00.  

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/30/between-summit-and-sky/feed/ 0 Artbootik for inexpensive apartment arthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/23/artbootik-for-inexpensive-apartment-art/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/23/artbootik-for-inexpensive-apartment-art/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:45:48 +0000 Marie Joséphine Guillet http://genevalunch.com/?p=63878 GenevaLunch.com Artbootik opened its doors 17 November 2011, with inexpensive and fun art for your apartment. Just up from the lakefront at 19, rue du Nant.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/23/artbootik-for-inexpensive-apartment-art/feed/ 0 Art Basel’s twin set swings into motionhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/16/art-basels-twin-set-swings-into-motion/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/16/art-basels-twin-set-swings-into-motion/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 06:55:56 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58864 GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Sales at Art Basel are widely expected to be good this year, with the total value of the artwork estimated at $1.75 billion by an expert interviewed by Reuters. It is the world’s largest contemporary art show, dedicated to the business of selling art, and it will attract 60,000 people in four [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/16/art-basels-twin-set-swings-into-motion/feed/ 1 Confucius and Einstein won’t show up together in Shanghaihttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/07/confucius-and-einstein-wont-show-up-together-in-shanghai/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/07/confucius-and-einstein-wont-show-up-together-in-shanghai/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:56:04 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58579 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – AP news agency reports Tuesday 7 June that Albert Einstein and Confucius won’t be part of a joint museum exhibit in Shanghai after talks ended between the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum and Bern’s Historical Museum. The Bern museum’s exhibit on Einstein, a son of the city, is currently on tour in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/07/confucius-and-einstein-wont-show-up-together-in-shanghai/feed/ 0 Hodler’s “Joyful woman” finds a home for CHF2.88mhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/01/hodlers-joyful-woman-finds-a-home-for-chf2-88m/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/01/hodlers-joyful-woman-finds-a-home-for-chf2-88m/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:48:37 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=58356 GenevaLunch.com ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Ferdinand Hodler remains a favourite among Swiss artists, with his 1909 “Joyful woman” selling for CHF2.88 million at Sotheby’s Zurich Swiss art sale Monday evening 30 May, the top item. Felix Vallotan’s “Naked woman kneeling in front of a red couch,” 1915, sold for CHF674,500. Both prices were in the range of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/06/01/hodlers-joyful-woman-finds-a-home-for-chf2-88m/feed/ 0 Exhibition: Words and Colourshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/18/words-and-colours/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/18/words-and-colours/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 09:06:14 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57807 GenevaLunch.com Exhibition by Sreyashi Ghosh: graphic poetry, expressed through pen and ink line drawings or word puzzles on paper, oil and acrylic on canvas inspired by poems fromthe author’s book “My Soul on a Platter” (see GenevaLunch review). Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursday, Fridays.

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/18/words-and-colours/feed/ 0 Christie’s to sell extraordinary Beyeler private collectionhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/09/christies-to-sell-extraordinary-beyeler-private-collection/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/05/09/christies-to-sell-extraordinary-beyeler-private-collection/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 04:56:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=57406 GenevaLunch.com Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Christies Europe will auction off an extraordinary art collection 21 and 22 June, the last of the artworks owned by Ernst Beyeler and his wife Hildy, whose collection has often been called one of the great private art collections of the 20th century. Agency AFP reports that the collection sale will [...]

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