Jean Tinguely’s 100th anniversary, Fenix Museum, Ben Shahn

Jean Tinguely’s 100th anniversary, Fenix Museum, Ben Shahn

Published: May 22, 2025

Duration: 1:04:52

A host of exhibitions and events this month and next celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Swiss artist Jean Tinguely, one of the godfathers of kinetic and auto-destructive art. Ben Luke speaks to Roland Wetzel, the director of the Tinguely Museum in Basel about the artist’s life and work, and the events marking the centenary. In Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Fenix, a museum about migration, has just opened, featuring a dramatic stainless steel tornado form on its roof. We discuss the museum with its director, Anne Kremers. And this episode’s Work of the Week is b...