Andrew Standen-Raz
Following studies in Anthropology at UCL, Film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Law at Loyola, Andrew worked for Miramax Films, 20th Century Fox Studios, and won two awards as a public relations counsel at Ruder Finn. After seeing the US political system from the inside while working for the VOA at a Democratic & a Republican political convention, Andrew returned to Europe to make documentary films, including "Vinyl: Tales from the Vienna Underground", which premiered at Karlovy Vary. He is currently curating for a film festival, developing new film projects, and developing an organic food app
What Do Refugees Take With Them? The Wien Museum’s Fluchtspuren Exhibit Has Answers
The exhibition What Remains: Traces of Refugees (Fluchtspuren) leaves its mark with a few personal objectsSize isn’t everything, especially when your survival literally depends on the coat on your back. What would you grab...
How to Get Involved in Politics in Austria
How do you make your voice heard in a country that is not entirely your own?Politics often seems like a cross between a telenovela and a car crash – you’d like to ignore it, but...
In Heimat:Machen, the Volkskundemuseum Confronts its own Role in Shaping National Identity
The past is only foreign if you deny its powerful impact on the presentThanks to fresh research by curators Birgit Johler und Magdalena Puchberger, the exhibition Heimat:Machen (Creating:Homeland) at the Volkskundemuseum (The Austrian Museum...
Opinion | Will you be Replaced by a Robot Soon?
Can we control the spread of AI and robots into every aspect of our lives?Sophia has been granted citizenship by Saudi Arabia; she has been a star guest on the “Tonight Show” and her...
The Good Life is as Easy to Define as Love or Justice
Why Vienna tops the rankings of the world’s most livable cities is about attitude as much as anythingFor the mild-mannered “Zettlpoet” Helmut Seethaler, The Good Life entails pasting tiny poems on Vienna’s trees and...
Why you Should go to Vienna Design Week
Vienna's Design Week is a feast of ideas that reveal the many ways design enhances our livesGiven any traveler’s willingness to pay for charm, it’s a wonder how many miserable corners fill our world....
“How to Live Together” at the Kunsthalle Wien is a Guide for Better World
A new group show at the Kunsthalle encourages us to shed our preconceptions and love the things that set us apart.The tempting possibility of a Utopia, a perfect world where we all get along...
