Andrew Standen-Raz, Author at Metropole

The 56th Viennale promises a more international direction under its first female head In 1991, Philippe Petit, infamous for tightrope walking betwe...

Andrew Standen-Raz - October 25, 2018

Art

Revealing Spaces

At the Architekturzentrum Wien, the exhibits are just the tip of the iceberg. If you can’t make it to Kannikegården this month to see Lundgaard &...

Andrew Standen-Raz - August 23, 2018

Cover Stories

The Sociable City

Conversations with Viennese architects reveal the secrets to creating a liveable city. “Everything is Architecture,” wrote the Pritzker prize-win...

Andrew Standen-Raz - August 23, 2018

Food & Drink

The Future of Meat | Impossible Burgers, Bioreactors and the Real Cost of Cheap Protein

To the late chef Anthony Bourdain, “Life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is not a life worth livi...

Andrew Standen-Raz - June 30, 2018

Art

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 objects Size isn’t everything, especially when y...

Andrew Standen-Raz - May 28, 2018

Stage

Fear and Loathing at the Wiener Festwochen

This year’s Wiener Festwochen deliver soothing magic for a world on the edge of a nervous breakdown. What compels some of us to seek out provocat...

Andrew Standen-Raz - May 2, 2018

Science & Technology

Art Ex Machina | When AI Enters the Studio

As robots and AI pervade our living rooms and workplaces, will they also hold the mirror up to our lives?

Andrew Standen-Raz - March 1, 2018

How To

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 c...

Andrew Standen-Raz - February 1, 2018

Art

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 present Thanks to fresh research by curators Birgit Johle...

Andrew Standen-Raz - November 30, 2017

Opinion

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 h...

Andrew Standen-Raz - November 30, 2017

Cover Stories

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 anything For the mild-mannered “Zettlpoet” H...

Andrew Standen-Raz - September 28, 2017

City Life

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 lives Given any traveler’s willingness to pay for charm, i...

Andrew Standen-Raz - August 30, 2017

Art

“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 ...

Andrew Standen-Raz - June 1, 2017

Stage

How the Wiener Festwochen are Breaking all the Rules in 2017

The Wiener Festwochen push the envelope with a new co-director setting the tone Being voted “most-livable” city can be a double-edged sword. Ever...

Andrew Standen-Raz - April 29, 2017

Cover Stories

Austria’s Obsession with Extreme Sports and how it Changes us

How Austria's taming the rush of death-defying adrenaline highs condition us to be more resilient. In just one tenth of a second your brain goes ...

Andrew Standen-Raz - April 28, 2017

Opinion

The Time I Found out Just How Great the Austrian Health System Is

Medical Meanderings: From dodgy diagnostics in the U.K. to a tree-filled quad in the Alpine Republic. A tale of two cities. When a sympathetic ...

Andrew Standen-Raz - March 31, 2017

Special Report

Will Chancellor Christian Kern’s “Plan A” Tame the Refugee Problem?

Or does Kern's new narrative play into the hands of the populists? There have been no bombs in Austrian cities. There are no policemen in body ...

Andrew Standen-Raz - March 31, 2017

International

Austrians Promote Social Entrepreneurship in Africa

Two Austrian-led organizations ask whether social entrepreneurs in Africa can combat the world’s “wicked problems” any better than development NGOs ...

Andrew Standen-Raz - March 6, 2017

Stage

Franz Grillparzer’s Medea

The Volkstheater tackles the original woman scorned in Franz Grillparzer’s Medea How do you create empathy for a mother who murders her children?...

Andrew Standen-Raz - March 6, 2017

Film

Nadiv Molcho’s First Feature Film, The History of Now

Nadiv Molcho – the young actor, director and member of the NENI clan – is used to defying naysayers. His first feature film is The History of Now ...

Andrew Standen-Raz - March 3, 2017

Business & Career

The Undeclared Economy

How does Austria deal with Europe’s estimated €1 trillion shadow economy of black-market crime, petty tax evasion and corporate profit shifting? ...

Andrew Standen-Raz - February 6, 2017

Opinion

Opinion | The Luxury of Home

When the chips are down, how does a top-rated city give shelter to those who have lost everything? Recessions remind us that home is a luxury, the li...

Andrew Standen-Raz - December 5, 2016

Stage

A War of Words – Molière’s Misanthrope

The archetypal angry middle-aged male splutters to life in Molière’s Der Menschenfeind (The Misanthrope) Our current love affair with the instant...

Andrew Standen-Raz - November 1, 2016

Cover Stories

Beautiful Minds

If our education decides our future, what happens to upward mobility and equal opportunity? A democracy depends on citizens knowing what they are v...

Andrew Standen-Raz - October 1, 2016

Art

On Display: Calle Libre – Living Walls

The Calle Libre Festival turns urban walls into galleries When Jakob Kattner looks around Vienna, he doesn’t see the historic architecture that ...

Andrew Standen-Raz - July 1, 2016

Business & Career

Business & Career: Beyond the White Cube

How young, savvy art producers bring new talent directly to the public by exploiting new spaces, technology and social media, thereby sidestepping the...

Andrew Standen-Raz - July 1, 2016

Film

On Screen: Lights, Camera, Sacher – Behind the Scenes

ORF has the entire city wondering about the new big-budget mini-series filming at the Hotel Sacher Crossing the street from the Vienna State Oper...

Andrew Standen-Raz - June 1, 2016

Business & Career

Business & Career: We Are What We Eat

As industrial farming comes under attack, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) hopes to change the game Revolution is the new black. Every pilla...

Andrew Standen-Raz - June 1, 2016

May 2016

On Tonight: Pratersauna – In Nomine Party

The prominent Pratersauna nightclub reopens after renovation The rumor mill was abuzz: Last month, Martin Ho, the Dots Group entrepreneur, se...

Andrew Standen-Raz - May 1, 2016

City Life

City Life: The Lost Property Office – Temporary Spaces for Innovation in Vienna

Abandoned offices and storefronts in Vienna provide affordable temporary space for creative urban innovation Without human activity a city’s surf...

Andrew Standen-Raz - May 1, 2016

April 2016

On Stage: English Mondays at the Schauspielhaus

Two Pints of Theatre & a Packet of Crisps: English Mondays promise a provocative brew of cutting edge theatre English is made for the stage....

Andrew Standen-Raz - April 1, 2016

February 2016

How to…be a Data-Savvy Spy

Fear of Big-Data snoops sifting through your chat history, photo streams, and following your private trips across town? Greta Garbo understood ab...

Andrew Standen-Raz - March 10, 2016

Grätzl

Grätzl: Weißgerberviertel – Art on the Riverside

My Home is My Grätzl This month: the Weißgerberviertel in Vienna's 3rd district One sunny weekend in February, I set off with two friends to exp...

Andrew Standen-Raz - March 1, 2016

Cover Stories

Cover Story: Private Lives

From the internet to the bedroom, Austrians care about – and protect – the personal sphere. It’s a cultural thing. On a cold, grey day in January...

Andrew Standen-Raz - February 1, 2016

December/January 2015/2016

Scenes of Vienna: Politics Killed the Radio Star

Citizens and celebrities gather at the ORF Radiokulturhaus to mourn and protest the passing of an era. Early in Spring, Das Ohr, the four-meter h...

Andrew Standen-Raz - December 10, 2015

Business & Career

Business & Career: Behind the Gallery Walls

In staging their signature shows, Vienna’s art exhibitors navigate an opaque world filled with secretive collectors, oligarchs and layers of fancy law...

Andrew Standen-Raz - December 10, 2015

December/January 2015/2016

Profiles: The Artist is Present

The importance of art depends on what society makes of it. Four pillars of Vienna’s art scene told us how they – a museum director, a curator, a galle...

Andrew Standen-Raz - December 1, 2015

People

The Train of Hope: Organized Chaos at the Encampment on the Gürtel

Picture: © Christopher Klettermayer Part II You sense the Train of Hope camp even before you see it. Exiting the underground into the train stat...

Andrew Standen-Raz - November 2, 2015

City Life

City Life: The Kindness of Strangers

With tens of thousands of asylum seekers overwhelming public institutions, couples like Skye and Zoltan Kiss are opening their homes Skye and Zol...

Andrew Standen-Raz - November 1, 2015

News

Scenes of Vienna: Boarding the Train of Hope

“Three people in one room want to commit suicide? Stay cool.” What keeps everyone going is the sense of humanity. You sense the Train of Hope cam...

Andrew Standen-Raz - November 1, 2015

People

The Train of Hope: Among the Refugees at Vienna’s Hauptbahnhof

Picture: ©Christopher Klettermayer Part I It started with a post on Facebook, Martina Barwitzki told me. It was her friend Julian: Some refugees...

Andrew Standen-Raz - October 31, 2015

Art

On Display: Ego, Curator

The language of remixing our world is shifting: programmers, selectors, managers, organizers and producers are all making way for curators. Curat...

Andrew Standen-Raz - October 1, 2015