{"id":113729,"date":"2026-08-10T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/113729\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:39:38","slug":"kenny-schachter-on-switzerlands-engadin-valley-the-scenic-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/113729\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Schachter on Switzerland&#8217;s Engadin Valley &#8211; The Scenic Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Schachter, the artist, curator, dealer, and irreverent art critic, has escaped <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/arts-intel\/cities\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York<\/a> in favor of Switzerland\u2019s Engadin Valley for years, basing himself right above Vito Schnabel\u2019s Saint-Moritz gallery (he can see the neon sign out of his window). Between teaching at the University of Zurich and working as an advisory-board member of the annual Engadin Art Talks conference, he has come to know the region\u2019s art world\u2014and its back roads\u2014like a local.<\/p>\n<p>The popular perception of Switzerland is as a stalwart of neutrality\u2014a safe haven with the world\u2019s most robust and stable economy. Then again, there\u2019s also its sordid past as the Nazis\u2019 primary banker and personal safe-deposit box, not to mention the immigration kerfuffle last month where the Swiss electorate narrowly voted down an attempt to cap immigration. As abhorrent as it is unsettling, I discovered while researching this story that Switzerland only granted women the right to vote in 1971, making it one of the last Western nations to do so. (Some autonomous cantons held out as late as 1990!) And, prior to 1988, Swiss law designated the husband as the \u201chead of the family,\u201d requiring his permission for a wife to open a bank account or work outside the home. For Christ\u2019s sake, I\u2019m astonished that women in Switzerland have never been barred from driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenny Schachter, the artist, curator, dealer, and irreverent art critic, has escaped New York in favor of Switzerland\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[55349,55350,55351,23220,55352,55353,35017,11232,55354,55355,35024,55356,32556,30569,55357,55358,55359,55360,35021,55361,35171,2525,55362,55363,55364,55365,529,32554,55366,55367,55369,55368,55370,55371,1613,55372,5954,55373,6943,16829,55374,17,13987,55375,55376,55377,55378],"class_list":["post-113729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-air-mail","tag-alpine-driving","tag-art-destinations","tag-art-galleries","tag-art-travel","tag-boutique-hotels","tag-bruno-bischofberger","tag-contemporary-art","tag-cultural-travel","tag-dada-daily","tag-engadin","tag-engadin-travel","tag-engadin-valley","tag-giovanni-segantini","tag-heidi-bucher","tag-honda-integra-type-r","tag-integra-type-r","tag-joseph-beuys","tag-julian-schnabel","tag-julier-pass","tag-kenny-schachter","tag-luxury-travel","tag-maloja","tag-martino-gamper","tag-meyers-manx","tag-mili-weber-museum","tag-museums","tag-pontresina","tag-richard-gauntlett","tag-road-trips","tag-s-chanf","tag-scenic-drives","tag-scuol","tag-segantini-museum","tag-st-moritz","tag-st-moritz-travel","tag-summer-in-switzerland","tag-super-mountain-market","tag-swiss-alps","tag-swiss-design","tag-swiss-travel","tag-switzerland","tag-switzerland-travel","tag-the-scenic-route","tag-thestable","tag-villa-flor","tag-vito-schnabel-gallery"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}