Richard Semmel, a Jewish textiles entrepreneur in Berlin, was forced to sell the painting after fleeing Nazi persecution in 1933

The painter, who features in a major Black figurative painting survey at the Kunstmuseum Basel, discusses his growing collection

Elena Filipovic recently became director of the city’s Kunstmuseum after nine years at the Kunsthalle, while Mohamed Almusibli has taken the reins at the latter institution

From Precious Okoyomon's nightmarish animatronic bear to a global survey of Black figurative painting, sci-fi chairs and Dan Flavin

Filipovic joins from the Kunsthalle Basel and will replace Josef Helfenstein

Off to Art Basel? From a Picasso harlequin to Jean Tinguely’s clanking sound sculpture, here are some of the masterpieces not to miss in the city’s bountiful museums

With a major art collection and multiple museum sponsorship deals, the collapse of the defunct Swiss bank is likely to have ramifications for the art world

Exhibition reveals the American artist’s unrealised sketches from the 1980s for stained-glass windows for the city’s minster, and how his travels influenced his later work

Here are the shows to visit beyond the Art Basel fair this week

The deep and life-long influence of the Old Master on the Modernist is explored in an exhibition that pairs their works at the Kunstmuseum Basel

Plus, Chris Levine's portrait of Queen Elizabeth II; and a rise in political interference in museum leadership

All you ever wanted to know about Bourgeois, from the artist in her own words to an illustrated book for children—selected by the Hayward Gallery’s Ralph Rugoff and Katie Guggenheim

Show at the Kunstmuseum Basel brings together text works by the late artist in a year that will see three major Bourgeois exhibitions

In this adapted extract from his new book Van Gogh’s Finale, Martin Bailey examines the portrait of Marguerite Gachet in the Kunstmuseum Basel

The Basel-based collector tells us what he's bought and why

This major exhibition comprises nearly 200 works by the multicultural artist who remained an outsider in Paris despite his central role in the movement

From unseen drawings from Kara Walker's personal archives to a fresh take on Camille Pissarro as the leader of the Impressionists

The publication is released ahead of an exhibition of the US artist's works at the Kunstmuseum Basel this summer

The major travelling exhibition opens at the Kunstmuseum Basel before travelling to London's Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art in New York

Around 600 unseen drawings, collages, studies and writings will flood the museum's ground-floor galleries, providing a window into the American artist's work

The new year's must-see shows include Vermeer and Botticelli blockbusters; major Jasper Johns and Yayoi Kusama retrospectives; and sweeping surveys on Iran, slavery and queer art

From the towering ambitions of a young Picasso to Rebecca Horn's Body Fantasies

Self-interrogation is central to the work of the South African artist, whose latest piece on show at the Kunstmuseum Basel poses a series of questions that get half-answered

Exhibition traces the evolution of the splintered style that changed Modern art forever

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a totemic Klansman to the art of colonial Latin America

Serra shows his hand in front of and behind the camera