Places · Aarau / Connecticut

Aarau / Connecticut

Visit some of the sights around Fabian's workshop in Danbury.

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What to see

Museums, galleries, and other unique spaces.

The cantonal art museum in Aarau, Switzerland. Swiss art from the eighteenth century to now.

Basel museum devoted to Jean Tinguely's kinetic sculptures, in a Mario Botta building on the Rhine.

Tinguely's Métamatics: motorized sculptures that produce their own drawings. On view at Museum Tinguely.

Swiss Science Center in Winterthur. Hands-on exhibits on physics, light, and perception.

Design campus in Weil am Rhein, just over the German border: buildings by Gehry, Hadid, and Ando, and a design museum.

Museum of modern and contemporary art in Riehen, outside Basel, in Renzo Piano's 1997 building.

Connecticut's only museum devoted solely to contemporary art. About fifteen minutes from Danbury.

Five-hundred-acre sculpture park in the Hudson Valley. Large-scale outdoor works.

Dia's museum in a former Nabisco factory on the Hudson. Long-term installations from the 1960s onward.

Fabian Oefner's series of cars photographed as if exploding. Each picture is assembled from hundreds of stills.

Know before you go

fabianoefner.com. TED: Psychedelic Science. The pictures circulate as evidence. They are theater.