DANIEL BAUMANN is an art historian and, from 2015 to 2024, was the director of Kunsthalle Zurich. He lives in Basel.
The former director of Kunsthalle Zürich on why so many of his colleagues love art, their jobs, and the profession – and yet still want to leave.
In another year eclipsed by right-wing politics and apathetic art, nine Spike trustees separate global culture’s wheat from its chaff.
In 1996, the Polish artist’s minimalist floor sculpture recast Gavin Brown’s NYC gallery as a disco, distilling the elation of dance and the melancholy of its era’s unfulfillable promise.
What were the little highlights to make this life worth living – and what was bad enough to stand out in even the darkest times?
This art year had so much to offer that losing orientation wasn’t very difficult. So why not, we thought, organize it into what was best, and what was worst?
