But locals say there’s much more to Basel’s art scene than record prices. And that’s how it started.”He says now the urban art scene in Basel has overtaken that of Zurich, its longtime rival. And Art Basel is pulling in more and more graffiti artists as the boundary between commercial and street art increasingly dissolves. Basel Art Center offers a special LSD night as part of its psychedelic retrospective of HR Giger, the Swiss artist known for his terrifying designs for Alien, the movie. In LSD, My Problem Child, Hofmann writes about his life, his discovery of LSD and his research into sacred plants.

Source: The Guardian April 19, 2018 09:56 UTC