Sitting in the Toilet on the River, a work by Russian émigré artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, I watched the Rhine violently rush by. The cacophonous main exhibition hall of Art Basel was only a ...

“It is universal. It is about suffering, fear, the tragedy of man,” says Emilia, sitting in a marbled atrium of the capital’s Metropol Hotel. “One half of the artist,” as she calls ...