Diary: urinary performance, Yves Saint Laurent's X-rated drawings, plus more Basel gossip

Artists standing ovation (and micturation)
Massage your ego at the Kunsthaus Baselland courtesy of the Basque performance artist Itziar Okariz, whose sound installation Applause invites visitors to activate a crescendo of clapping that endures for a reassuring seven-and-a-half minutes. It also supplies an inadvertent soundtrack to the artists notorious early work next door, To Pee in Public or Private Spaces. Between 2000 and 2004, Okariz filmed herself copiously urinating in public places, inc