While Basel shines during art week, Zurich offers travellers a year-round creative scene and cultural discoveries. View on ...

Art How the war changed an artist’s life, his politics — and his painting Before Oct. 7, Sam Griffin’s work was personal and introspective; then he was drafted into the Israeli army ...

“This summer the roses are blue; the wood is of glass,” André Breton wrote in 1924. “Existence is elsewhere.” His Manifesto of Surrealism propelled a global, revolutionary art movement ...

Ray stayed in Paris, painting and photographing, and became a leading exponent of dada’s successor, surrealism. When the Germans came in 1940, he took off for Hollywood, where he painted ...

But why did Dada, the influential art movement and precursor of Surrealism, all but disappear from Switzerland after it was launched in Zurich in 1916? In an interview with SWI swissinfo.ch ...

The Dada art movement was born from the disillusionment of avant-garde artists who found refuge in Switzerland during the First World War. Gathering at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, these ...

100 years of Surrealism Born out of the earlier Dada movement, Surrealism was officially founded in 1924 in Paris by André Breton, who penned the Surrealist Manifesto that year. However, the term ...

Luis Buñuel transgressed them in his great Surrealist films of the late 1920s, Un Chien Andalou and L’Âge d’Or, both made with Dalí: images such as the eyeball sliced by a razor blade in Un Chien ...