Kunsthaus Zürich and the university set out a collaboration on provenance research, opening a new chapter in the study of the Bührle collection.
A collaboration reported by the University of Zurich yesterday links museum research with teaching, doctoral study and access to archives. At its centre is the five-year investigation of 205 works from the Bührle Foundation on long-term loan to the Kunsthaus.
The work includes reviewing provenance and cataloguing the foundation’s archive, with some material to be digitised. The collaboration agreement was signed in late September; this is a report on the research programme, rather than an announcement that new ownership findings have been reached. For an art lover in Zürich, it offers a reason to look beyond the label beside a painting.
205 worksFive years of provenance research Art history meets the archive
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Zürich & the lake
The Bührle research programme gains an academic partner
22 October. The UZH–Kunsthaus agreement connects the collection study to teaching and placements for students. Zürich has allocated a one-off CHF600,000 to related university research, including two doctoral projects on the art market and institutional networks. The museum’s five-year provenance project began in April. These are commitments to investigate and document history; the programme itself does not establish that a particular work was looted. UZH.
23 October. The lake crossing plans to replace the ageing Schwan with a new vessel in autumn 2028. It will still use fossil fuel: the operator says it cannot finance the additional cost of an electric option. It promises better manoeuvrability, capacity and lower emissions per car carried. Those are the operator’s expectations for the new ship, rather than measured results from a vessel already in service. NZZ · German.
Just Eat plans a different employment model
22 October. Just Eat plans to move deliveries in Zürich and several other German-speaking regions towards self-employed couriers and external fleets, potentially affecting around 700 employed courier posts. The company argues that the change will improve flexibility and availability. Unia challenges whether workers would truly be independent. The proposed shift makes this a local employment story as well as a change behind a familiar delivery app. SRF · German.
November’s Swiss votes begin with an unsettled picture
23 October. The first SRG poll ahead of 29 November finds close contests on several proposals, while restrictions on fireworks have a clearer lead. The marriage-tax initiative starts with 55% support and 34% opposition. The survey was conducted from 5–18 October, before much of the final campaign. It is an opening snapshot, with room for opinions to change, rather than a forecast of four results. SRF / gfs.bern · German.
The SVP’s Federal Council field takes shape
23 October. Zug’s SVP has nominated Thomas Aeschi, Michael Graber has confirmed his interest, and Thomas Matter has decided against standing. They join a selection process with several previously declared contenders and a Friday midday nomination deadline. Today’s developments concern who enters the party’s contest; they do not settle either its final ticket or the subsequent parliamentary election. SRF · German.
Britain launches a 72-hour preparedness message
22 October. The government’s Be Ready campaign asks households to consider how they would manage a short interruption to essential services. Ministers cite severe weather, cyber incidents and hostile-state attacks as possible causes. The recommended three-day supplies include water, food, a torch and a radio. This is general resilience guidance, rather than an announcement that a specific attack is imminent—relevant context for family and friends in Britain. The Guardian.
23 October. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled as Champi brings dangerous seas, wind and rain near Taiwan. One person has died after being swept away by waves, and evacuation measures include communities near a landslide-created dam. Taiwan’s forecasters expect slow, potentially erratic movement before the storm moves away. The warning is about continuing disruption and rainfall; landfall is not assumed. BBC live reporting.
BBC investigation documents repeated attacks on Sudanese hospitals
23 October. The BBC has identified at least 43 attacks on hospitals and other health sites in El Fasher between May 2024 and October 2025. Its investigation describes staff deaths, injuries and abductions as the RSF advanced. The group rejects the findings and alleges military use of facilities; the BBC says it could not independently verify that justification. The new development is the investigation into the earlier siege. BBC investigation.
Trump says Ukraine’s satellite service is restored
22–23 October. Donald Trump says the US has restored service after restrictions affected Ukraine’s military satellite communications. Earlier on Thursday, Volodymyr Zelensky said service was not yet fully restored. Elon Musk denies being responsible for the slowdown, while the White House denies ordering it. The competing accounts leave questions about what happened and who controlled it—an important distinction when reading claims that the issue has been resolved. BBC.
Gateshead faces a projected £47.4 million funding gap
23 October. Council forecasts point to a shortfall of £47.4 million over five years, with £11.6 million needed for the next financial year. The projection already assumes annual council-tax rises of 4.99%; those increases have not all been approved. Officials hope changes in social-care demand and costs could reduce the gap. For Tyneside, the practical question is which services and spending choices appear in forthcoming budgets. ChronicleLive / Local Democracy Reporting.
Storm Austen puts Twickenham on wind alert
22 October · warning for 23 October. A yellow warning covers Twickenham from 10:00 to 21:00 UK time today, according to the local report of the Met Office alert. Possible effects include short power interruptions and disruption to exposed routes and public transport. The strongest forecasts concern other parts of the country, so the headline’s highest gust speeds should not be read as a precise prediction for a Richmond street. Twickenham Nub News.
Art Basel Paris cuts its weekend short
22 October · closes 23 October. The fair says it will close at 19:00 today and will not open on Saturday or Sunday, citing planned demonstrations and safety. The Art Newspaper reports the change from an email sent to VIP guests yesterday. This materially changes the week’s earlier story about brisk sales: anyone planning a weekend visit needs to check arrangements now, including their ticket or invitation. The Art Newspaper.
22 October. In Re-membering, Mathenge places versions of herself in domestic scenes shaped by cultural memory and the upheavals surrounding Kenyan independence. Books, toys and maps become charged objects, and familiar rooms acquire unsettling details. Colossal’s new illustrated profile explains the paintings’ relationship to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writing. The New York exhibition closes tomorrow; the images offer a rewarding encounter wherever you are. Colossal.
Ibrahim Said turns the vessel into a sculpture of time
22 October. Said’s new exhibition draws on the pottery workshops of Old Cairo, Islamic decoration and ancient Egyptian forms. An 18-month residency with access to the Metropolitan Museum’s collection helped shape the work. Curved bands, repeated patterns and linked ceramic bodies make a useful change of scale from mural hunting: look closely at how the object creates spaces as well as surfaces. Shaping Time opened yesterday in New York. Colossal.
An enormous Kiefer painting finally has a room
22 October · opening 13 October. Black Flakes, measuring 11.2 metres high, spent almost two decades in storage because the Würth Collection lacked a suitable space. A dedicated pavilion designed by David Chipperfield’s office opened in Künzelsau on 13 October. The new report explores how Kiefer helped determine the room’s proportions and light. It is a striking case of architecture being built around the experience of one artwork. The Art Newspaper.
23 October. A solo set of voice and bass brings Anouchka Gwen to Pavillon Le Corbusier from 20:30 to 21:30. The Zürich-based musician’s programme, Songs of Love and Despair, offers a small-scale evening inside an exceptional architectural setting. Admission is CHF10 plus museum entry, and the museum recommends registering. It is a one-night performance rather than a long exhibition you can leave for another weekend. Museum für Gestaltung.
Next Thursday: a five-day Zwischenreich
29 October–2 November. Djuna and Christoph Bertschinger’s exhibition at Galerie 111 runs only from 29 October to 2 November. The opening is next Thursday, 17:00–21:00, at Zweierstrasse 111. This is the sort of short viewing window worth putting in the diary now. The same gallery’s current six-day Back Bone show, by Urs Jaermann and Florian Fuchs, remains open through Tuesday; both dates are in the calendar. Galerie 111.
Basel after work: a short tour and a Sound Bar
29 October. Museum Tinguely’s Late Thursday on 29 October combines music and drinks from 18:00 with free, twenty-minute introductions to the museum. The German tour starts at 19:00 and the English version at 19:30; each has a 25-person limit and no advance registration. A separate sign-language exhibition tour starts at 19:30. These timed visits offer an accessible alternative to committing to a full museum day. Museum Tinguely.
The art & performance calendar
Short exhibitions and individual visits • all times Zürich local
Moulis’s young president wants Bordeaux to be heard differently
23 October. At 29, Théophile Cordonnier combines work at his family’s organic Château Anthonic with the presidency of Moulis-en-Médoc’s appellation body. In a new French-language profile he describes the exhausting assumption that Bordeaux is expensive and unchanging. His focus is practical collective action and the economic survival of a small appellation. It is a grower’s view of the region, far removed from the top-château price league. Vitisphere · French; subscription.
Italy’s independent growers look beyond the cellar door
21 October · catch-up. A Nomisma study for FIVI describes small producers balancing direct sales, restaurants and exports. Cellar sales provide roughly a fifth of turnover among the businesses discussed, while cross-border direct selling remains burdened by administration. The federation’s November market in Bologna provides the immediate backdrop. WineNews’s Italian report is a useful guide to the businesses behind the bottles—and why buying directly can matter to them. WineNews · Italian.
Marina Cvetic receives Italy’s business honour
22 October. The head of Masciarelli received her Cavaliere del Lavoro honour at the Quirinale yesterday, following the earlier announcement of the award. WineNews revisits her role in building the Abruzzo estate and its international presence, alongside its work in hospitality at Castello di Semivicoli. It is an introduction to a producer and a region that deserve attention beyond Italy’s better-known wine destinations. WineNews · Italian.
The wine diary
Meet the makers • dates, places and original listings
Roche’s sales beat expectations; Xolair brings a warning
22 October. Roche reported third-quarter sales of CHF16.13 billion, up 7% at constant exchange rates and above the company-compiled consensus. Reuters highlights a weaker point: Xolair’s CHF848 million sales missed expectations as cheaper competition arrived. The group’s nine-month growth was 6% at constant currencies but only 1% in reported Swiss francs. For the Swiss pharma industry, commercial performance and exchange-rate effects remain distinct stories. Roche results.
A melanoma vaccine shows benefit, but expectations were higher
22 October. Merck and Moderna report that adding investigational intismeran to Keytruda reduced the hazard of recurrence or death by 42% in a phase-three trial after melanoma surgery. Two-year recurrence-free survival was 82.2%, versus 70.0% with Keytruda alone; overall-survival data remain immature. BioSpace describes investors’ disappointment relative to earlier hopes. Clinical benefit, regulatory approval and commercial success are three different questions. Merck / Moderna trial release.
At SAP’s AI event, the hard question is still adoption
22 October. Reporting from Birmingham, ITPro heard SAP, HMRC, Centrica and the CBI discuss the gap between buying AI and embedding it in work. Governance, trustworthy data and accountability featured alongside the technology. HMRC’s digital chief raised the need to stop an autonomous service safely. For capability leaders, the useful question is which decisions employees must practise when automation works—and when it suddenly does not. ITPro: on-site reporting.
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Appointments
Two continuing opportunities • checked today
ICRC: Head of Learning & Development
Open listing · deadline reminder.Deadline: Sunday 25 October. This Geneva role reports to the Chief People Officer and leads the organisation’s learning and capability agenda. The advert seeks 12–15 years of relevant experience, senior advisory ability and evidence of organisation-wide strategy. English is required; French and ICRC field experience are assets. It is a 100% open-ended contract with a six-year required rotation and a planned January start. Original ICRC advert.
Zurich: Skills Strategy & AI Capability Lead, 80–100%
Open listing · rechecked 23 October. The Zürich-based role connects skills strategy, workforce insight and practical learning for AI-enabled workflows in Life, Health & Bank Distribution. Its emphasis on simulations, business outcomes and senior stakeholder influence fits your enterprise capability interests closely. The original advert remains open and specifies no remote working. It does not state a closing date; review the scope and location requirements directly before deciding whether to apply. Original Zurich advert.
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Sports
McLaren • Harlequins • the weekend
Piastri says the McLaren is starting to make sense
22 October. Oscar Piastri describes recent rounds as a return towards the performance he expects, after struggling to adapt to this year’s car. He says techniques that worked last season have sometimes held him back. McLaren brings new parts to Austin, but he is cautious about a circuit that mixes its stronger high-speed corners with slower sections. This is the driver’s assessment of progress, not a prediction of Sunday’s result. Formula 1 interview.
Norris joins complaints about Austin’s bumps
22–23 October. Lando Norris supports Max Verstappen’s criticism of the Circuit of the Americas surface, describing the physical strain of repeated impacts. Verstappen argues that patching and grinding have not solved the underlying problem, and that current cars can bottom out heavily under braking. The discussion adds a technical and human dimension to the weekend: qualifying speed is not the only thing drivers will be managing. BBC Sport.
Itoje leads a changed Saracens side to The Stoop
23 October. Saracens have named nine changes for Sunday’s derby with Harlequins. Maro Itoje returns to the second row alongside George Martin, while Fergus Burke starts at fly-half. The club’s team announcement provides an early look at the opposition Quins must handle. Kick-off is 16:00 Zürich time on Sunday 25 October, equivalent to 15:00 in Britain after both countries change their clocks. Saracens team announcement.
Regine Sauter will leave national politics in 2027
23 October. Zürich FDP National Councillor Regine Sauter says she will not seek re-election next autumn. She plans new work including the presidency of the Garbald Foundation, which supports the historic villa and a centre for scientific and cultural exchange in the Bregaglia valley. She says she will continue working on the bilateral agreements and AHV reform through the remainder of her parliamentary term. NZZ · German.
Harald Schmidt on satire, audiences and staying adaptable
23 October. SRF’s new interview with the former late-night host moves between comedy, public image and the differences he sees between Germany and Switzerland. Schmidt treats the interview itself as a performance, mixing evasions with sharp observations about what attracts readers. For a comedy enthusiast learning German, it is a lively listening-and-reading choice: the page accompanies Urs Gredig’s conversation broadcast last night. SRF interview · German.
Christoph Geiser sees a lifetime gathered in thirteen volumes
23 October. A completed collected edition gives the Bern-based novelist an unusual chance to examine his work while still writing. SRF’s profile follows the development of his prose from realism towards experiment and his determination to challenge family silences. The final volume, Die Spur der Hasen, revisits his grandmother’s history. It offers a substantial Swiss literary discovery, with an accessible interview as the entry point. SRF Kultur · German.
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The Back Page
Act • experiment • play
The weekend’s useful deadlines
23–25 October.Tonight: Art Basel Paris closes at 19:00 local time. The Tyne Bridge’s ten-day closure starts at 23:00 UK time.
Sunday: ICRC applications close; Brentford play at 15:00 Zürich, Harlequins at 16:00, and the US Grand Prix starts at 21:00. Clocks go back overnight, so the Sunday times already account for winter time. Tyne Bridge closure details.
Original design exercise. Bern’s hospital outage suggests a useful capability exercise: remove one everyday digital system from a simulated task. Ask a small team to complete the hand-off using its approved fallback process, then identify the missing information, permissions or equipment. Measure what blocked the work and repair that obstacle. The aim is to test the organisation’s readiness, not to reward people for remembering a slide. Inspiration: SRF’s Insel report.
The gallery-wall puzzle
Original puzzle • spatial counting. Imagine a gallery wall divided into four columns and three rows of equal square panels. Every grid line is continuous.
How many different rectangles can you outline using those lines? Count every size, including squares.
How many of those rectangles are squares?
How many are wider than they are tall?
A frame must follow the grid: no diagonals or tilted shapes. Start with the obvious twelve little panels, then look for a way to count without losing track. Allow three to five minutes.
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Puzzle solution — open when ready
60 rectangles, of which 20 are squares and 25 are wider than they are tall. A rectangle is fixed by choosing two of the five vertical grid lines (10 choices) and two of the four horizontal lines (6 choices): 10 × 6 = 60. Squares come in three sizes: 12 unit squares, 6 two-by-two squares and 2 three-by-three squares, giving 20. For wider-than-tall frames, heights of 1, 2 and 3 units contribute 18, 6 and 1 respectively: 25. The remaining 15 rectangles are taller than they are wide. Counting every pair of boundaries independently confirms all three answers.