Kunstmuseum Basel’s new director arrives in style

The Kunstmuseum Basels new director, Josef Helfenstein, will have an unusually free hand when he takes over this autumn. He and his curators will be able to develop the museums exhibition programme straight away, and he will inherit far more space to show its collection.Museums arrange exhibition programmes two or three years in advance, so incoming directors usually have to wait to see their own shows materialise. But the institutions outgoing director, Bernhard Mendes Brgi, has, with his succ