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Banking on it
As Pictet opens its new Zürich office, we meet the team behind the historic building’s overhaul.
Culture
Auction houses bid on Hong Kong, a gallery in Mexico City and Eurovision goes stateside.
Sight and sound
From an artist’s interrogation of identity to an auteur’s latest work of high melodrama, we survey forthcoming cultural highlights.
Art direction
How can the Uzbek capital become an art city? The plan: to eschew starchitects and take things slowly.
Revving the engine
After a major financial collapse, Motor City’s creatives are joining forces. So could the artists and gallerists behind the resurgence get the whole of Detroit into gear?
New landscape
When the usual channels of shows closed, Italian curators found a new way to promote contemporary art.
Jeff Wall
The Canadian artist’s near-documentary photographs present worlds we don’t quite live in. He considers them an antidote to today’s proliferation of images.
Reformed character
Athens has a vast new cultural space, but only for two years. Before nomadic foundation Neon leaves, it plans to deliver a cultural hit to a quiet neighbourhood.
Island inspiration
Helsinki is launching an art biennial with a twist by using its rugged landscapes to inspire artists.
Back to life
New galleries, foundations and museums worldwide emerge from pandemic delays, with striking architecture housing impressive collections from German collector Helga de Alvear's Spanish outpost to international cultural debuts.
