Museum Tinguely Exhibition Examines Women's Perspective on Machines and Art

The Museum Tinguely in Basel is presenting an exhibition that approaches artistic work from a female perspective, framed around the proposition that women are not machines. The show is titled "Frauen sind keine Maschinen." Separately, the Kunstmuseum Basel is showing work by Roy Lichtenstein, the major Pop and comic artist, under the title "Sweet Dreams, Baby!" Lichtenstein is credited with revolutionizing art and making it accessible to a mass audience, while at the same time embedding himself firmly within traditional art history. That dual position is demonstrated through the numerous references in his prints to the great masters. Both presentations place questions of artistic tradition and mass culture in Basel.