Swiss Sophistication: Zurich & Basel Featuring Art Basel

June 14 – 22, 2025

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Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Noey invites you on this exclusive Swiss art odyssey in Zürich and Basel, featuring special access to Art Basel’s groundbreaking installations.

Exceptional Access to the World’s Leading Art Fair

Explore Europe’s richest modern art collection at the Sammlung Rosengart Luzern, where Picasso, Klee, and Chagall’s works hang in a 17th-century palace. At the Vitra Campus, join an expert-guided tour of an architectural wonderland, featuring Frank Gehry’s first European project alongside creations by 11 other Pritzker Prize winners. In Riehen, Renzo Piano’s light-filled Fondation Beyeler showcases Monet and Van Gogh masterpieces. Zürich’s Löwenbräu quarter reveals cutting-edge art in a converted brewery. Marvel at Jean Tinguely’s 23-foot Heureka Fountain, a kinetic sculpture on Lake Zürich’s shore. A curator at the Kunstmuseum Basel will introduce you to the world’s oldest public art collection, spanning from 15th–century Holbeins to Cézanne’s Post-Impressionist canvases.

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Lecturer

Christopher Noey

Lecturer

Christopher Noey is an art historian, author, and an Emmy award-winning producer of films on art and culture. He holds both a bachelors and masters degree in art history. At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, he created video installations for a diverse array of exhibitions including Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven, and he was series director of the innovative online features 82nd & Fifth and The Artist Project, in which he interviewed 120 contemporary artists on how they are inspired by The Met and its collections. An expert in Asian and Islamic art, Mr. Noey has taught at Williams College and at the City College of New York. In the Connections episode “Tennessee,” he talks about his childhood state and the unusual places it pops up in The Met.

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