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Relearning Excellence | A Post-PISA response
There was a time when the Vienna school system was among the most respected in Europe. Current PISA results are far from that
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Cultural Whale or Fish out of Water?
You couldn’t miss it if you tried. After the vast vineyards, golden sunflower fields, apricot trees heavy with fruit and century-old farmhouse...
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Mind Matters | Our Top Picks for the Biennale
Artist Andreas Kattner shares his top 10 moments from the Venice Art Biennale.
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Into The Multiform
Mark Rothko makes his first appearance in Austria, with a comprehensive retrospective spanning his entire career.Unconstrained by the boundaries o...
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Women’s Art at the Fringe
The Kunstforum brings the women of Art Brut to the forefrontWith the current Zeitgeist’s fondness for inclusivity, it is perhaps unsurprising that...
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Back from Oblivion
Vienna’s female artists get some long overdue time in the limelight at the Lower Belvedere.Three women gaze down from the wall: One in a red dre...
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A Feast for the Senses
The MAK honors Koloman Moser influential and abundant body of work"Koloman Moser Universalkünstler" proclaims the publicity by the Museum of Appli...
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The View from the Other Side
The Galerie Wienerroither & Kohlbacher presents the twisted dreamscapes of Alfred Kubin.Austrian artist Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) once remarked...
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The Resurrection of Beauty
Designers Sagmeister & Walsh make a plea for pleasing aesthetics.The question is almost impossible: What is beauty, ...
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Culture Art | November
An Old Master Comes to Town
The KHM journeys into the quotidian magnificence
of Pieter Bruegel the ElderThe works of Flemish renaissance painter...
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Metropole’s Top 5 Picks for Vienna Art Week 2018
As the annual Vienna Art Week rolls in again, the city fills to the brim with artists, with hundreds from around the world dropping by to open an exhi...
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Must-See Art Events This Month
Take a closer look at Claude Monet's impressive collections at the Albertina, and celebrate up-and-coming local and international art at the Vienna De...
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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 &...
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Buying Art for the First Time | An Essential Guide to Viennese Etiquette
Metropole and viennacontemporary join forces to help new buyers navigate the local art scene in styleWhen you visit the sauna for the first time...
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A Golden Age for Gentle Radicals | Josef Hoffmann & Koloman Moser
The cruelest punishment imaginable,” said the Viennese modernist architect Adolf Loos, “would be to be locked up in a prison cell decorated by Josef H...
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Hide from the Heat at the Cool Calle Libre Street Art Festival
See how Street Art breaks boundaries in the world of artAs summer scorches Vienna, the torturous heat may tempt locals and visitors into momenta...
June 2018
The Female Gaze | Florentina Pakosta’s Retrospective at the Albertina
The combative artist gets a large retrospectiveThere is no denying that throughout the history of art, the bulk of works has come from men who p...
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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 y...
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Wow! Or Never | The Heidi Horten Collection
The Heidi Horten Collection at the Leopold Museum spins recent art history into an aesthetic narrative.Imagine a greatest hits collection of 20t...
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The MAK Celebrates Otto Wagner’s 100th Anniversary
The MAK shows the enduring influence of the seminal architect, from the 19th century to today.Leaving an epochal impact on Vienna’s appearance, ...
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Get a Glimpse of the Man Behind ‘The Kiss’
The Klimt Villa offers an insightful glance into the private life of the iconic painter.“I am convinced that I am not particularly interesting a...
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Rachel Whiteread, Creator of Vienna’s Holocaust Memorial, Returns for a Major Exhibit
The celebrated British sculptor gets her first extensive review in Austria.Best known in Vienna for her Holocaust memorial on Judenplatz, Turner...
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Austrian to Take the Helm at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
Max Hollein, the current director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is poised to take over what is regarded as one of the world’s mos...
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Retrospective | Anton Romako
A big retrospective presents outstanding works from Anton Romako, a painter ahead of his time.One of the great pioneers of Modernism, Anton Romako...
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“The Shape of Time” Brings New Masters to the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Old Masters meet the new, bridging the gaps in the KHM’s collection with an new exhibit, "The Shape of Time".Despite representing some 5,000 years...
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Elina Brotherus Is Coming to the Kunst Haus Wien
The noted contemporary photographer Elina Brotherus blends formality with playfulness.Autobiographical and perfectionistic, Elina Brotherus’ m...
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The Albertina is Paying Tribute to Keith Haring in a Retrospective until June 24th
A tribute to the artist,
from graffiti to the Guggenheim.One of the most recognized artists of the 1980s, Keith Haring channeled ancient cave...
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Klimt in Virtual Reality | See Frederick Baker’s Klimt’s Magic Garden at the MAK
Frederick Baker’s tour de force Klimt’s Magic Garden premiers a work and a technology.This is not the Klimt that launched a thousand place mat...
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Underrated Martha Jungwirth Will Surprise You at the Albertina
The renowned Austrian artist Martha Jungwirth garners some late fame.Pointedly setting spots of paint, blurred surfaces and strong colors, Aus...
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Photography Icon Man Ray is Coming Vienna! Check Him out at the Kunstforum
A glimpse beyond the iconic artist’s photographs.One of Dadaism and Surrealism’s most recognizable artists, Man Ray became a household name as...
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Detergent, Knackwurst and Socialism
The Waschsalon in the historic Karl Marx-Hof shows how the Social Democrats shaped Vienna.The museum Das Rote Wien im Waschsalon (Red Vienna at ...
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Baroque Star
Rubens – The Power of Transformation shows a master channeling the past to create something entirely original.Enormously productive, Peter Paul ...
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The Westlicht Explores Polaroids in What Might Be Their Final Exhibit
Predating Instagram by several decades, Polaroid’s instant photographs were a hit from the mid-20th century up to the digital revolution, fitt...
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The University of Applied Arts Celebrates its 150th Birthday
A spawning ground for many venerable creators, the Universität für Angewandte Kunst (University of Applied Arts) – or Angewandte for short – i...
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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 Johle...
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130 of Rafael’s Paintings and Drawings are Coming to the Albertina
The iconic Raphael awes at the Albertina as an iconic painter and draftsmanIf imitation is the sincerest form of flatter...
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Vienna’s New Weltmuseum Takes You Around the World in 14 Rooms
The Weltmuseum revises our approach to ethnology while celebrating our diversityAs the world changes, so do our perspect...
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Bringing Bruegel Back to the Albertina
The Flemish master is shown to be a meticulous draughtsmanCombining exceptional craftsmanship with a keen eye and attent...
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The World of 2017 Captured in Moments at Westlicht
Photojournalism proves its impact anew with the winners of the 60th annual contestBearing witness to the momentous event...
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Get Ready for Sign Week Vienna!
The first Sign Week Vienna is all about exhibiting Viennese storefront design, public typography and sign paintingGiven Vienna’s great tradition...
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Rediscovering Raphael: The Italian Master Returns to the Albertina
A new show on the Renaissance polymath demonstrates the creative process of a geniusMentioned in the same breath as Leonardo and Michelangelo, R...
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Express Yourself! Unsung Austrian Expressionist Anton Kolig at the Leopold Museum
One of Austria’s finest expressionists receives his first major show in over 50 yearsWith a dynamic and dazzling figural style marked by a fierc...
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The Startling Rise of Viennacontemporary in the European art Scene
No longer in its infancy, Viennacontemporary asserts itself as the leading art marketplace in AustriaThe best art fairs offer a little something...
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Woman: The Mumok Revisits the Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s
Showcasing photos, videos and performance pieces from the feminist avant-garde of the 1970s, this exhibition at the Mumok is fascinating - and more re...
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This Year’s Vienna Biennale Delves into the Robot Revolution
The Vienna Biennale explores the disruptions and innovations affecting the world of work as we know itTo live and work with robots is not a scie...
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“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 ...
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Raw art From Crazy and Untrained Minds at Museum Gugging
Art brut and its origins are laid bare at Museum Gugging.Amongst the many startling visions on display at the Museum Gugging is an unassuming pe...
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Discover Never-Before-Seen art by Maria Lassnig at the Albertina This Summer
The celebrated Austrian artist is shown in a new light with many previously unseen worksSomewhat ironically for an artist of such renown, Maria ...
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Edward Burtynsky’s Stunning Photography Shows our Impact on the Planet at the Kunst Haus Wien
Mankind’s effect on the mother nature captured by the renowned Canadian photographerIn a journey of seven years that spanned five continents and...
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Anoka Faruqee’s art Seems to Capture Time Itself at the Vienna Secession
Faruqee’s pulsating compositions make their solo debut in EuropeMost revolutions turn stuffy with time. But the Secession certainly tries to cul...
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Albertina Exhibition Proves That Egon Schiele’s Drawings are as Good as his Paintings
The Albertina displays a different view of Egon Schiele's oeuvre.The cultural landscape of Vienna is indelibly marked by the work of Egon Schiel...
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Spanish Photographer Christina Garcia Rodero on View at Insituto Cervantes
Her unreleased masterpieces presented at new exhibition.One of Spain’s most renowned artists, Cristina Garcia Rodero approaches photography wi...
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Was Painter Carl Spitzweg the Erwin Wurm of the Biedermeier era?
A Leopold Museum exhibition juxtaposes the past and present with two artists famous for their satirical takes on everyday social norms.Somewhat ...
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Don’t Exaggerate, Unless You’re a Caricaturist Exhibiting at Vienna’s Eurocature F...
Eurocature, the annual conference and exhibition of caricature artists, brings together international talent to create spitting images.Now in ...
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Indulge Your Macabre Curiosity at the Narrenturm’s Sensational Medical Museum
The world’s first psychiatric clinic lives on as the pathological-anatomical museum.Hidden away in a corner of the Altes AKH (Vienna’s former ge...
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Everything you Wanted to Know About Biedermeier Glass but Were Afraid to ask
Glasses from the Empire and Biedermeier Period documents a rising middle class and its search for its own aestheticThere’s nothing new about con...
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Vulgar Fashion
The Belvedere’s Winterpalais takes a walk on fashion’s exquisite ugly side exploring vulgar fashionPlunging necklines, exposed straps, emblazone...
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On Display: Vienna Art Fair – Five Things Worth Seeing This Week
From Feb 23–26, 2017, Art Vienna presents works from Austrian and select international galleries.The debut of this art fair will be held at the Le...
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Film Stills: Magical Moments
Film stills as drama suspended, art as advertisement: Even if you’ve never seen the movie, chances are you know the imageThey are the indelible ...
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Georgia O’Keeffe: The Reluctant Icon
Georgia O’Keeffe stars in her largest retrospective outside of her home countryMost people first get to know Georgia O’Keeffe through her volupt...
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Franz West at the 21er Haus
The prolific artist’s collaborations with other notables underline the significance of participationA firm believer in communication and partici...
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That Clinking Clanking Sound can Make the World go ‘Round
The Money Museum documents the country’s history with cold hard cashMoney is ubiquitous; after all it makes the world go round. However, for a m...
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Sarah Morris. Falls Never Breaks
Visual artist Sarah Morris’ solo exhibition focuses on her cinematographic workNo stranger to the weird of the everyday, painter and filmmaker S...
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The Color Woodcut in Vienna Around 1900
How the Vienna Secession revived an archaic technique – in brilliant colorExploring a lesser-known chapter of the storied Secession, Vienna’s fi...
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Hubert Scheibl, Austrian Contemporary Artist, Between Abstract and Bold art
The prominent Austrian artist redecorates the Belvedere’s OrangerieCelebrated as one of Austria’s most prominent contemporary artists, Hubert Sc...
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Walking the Talk
Vienna Art Week explores the finer points of aesthetics under the theme Seeking BeautyVienna is in for an arts talkathon. From November 14-20, t...
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Home-Field Advantage at Viennacontemporary
Nina Prader brings you her impressions of the viennacontemporary art fair Last week, you read her account of how Austrian artists repre...
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Artist Martin Kippenberger, Enjoying One Last Laugh
Germany’s jocular anti-traditionalist genius returns to Vienna posthumously.Widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of the late...
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Spot-On Masterpieces
The Albertina pin-points Pointillism’s meticulously methodical mark-making.Georges Seurat once insisted that, although some saw poetry in his pa...
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Shunga: Erotic Art from Japan
One of the foremost collections of erotic art from the floating world makes waves in Vienna.Despite countless attempts by officials to prohibit ...
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Austria at ABC – Showing Presence, Making Monuments
In this two-part article, Nina Prader examines how Austrian contemporary art shows its colors at fairs in Berlin and Vienna.Part I: Wieners and Cu...
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World Press Photo ‘16
Photojournalism’s finest comes to ViennaWith the dissemination of images today moving faster than the shutter speed of a camera, it’s easy to fe...
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Vienna Contemporary 2016
Austria’s leading contemporary art fair presents emerging talent, highlighting collaborative new work from around Central EuropeShowcasing both ne...
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Foreign Gods at Leopold Museum
The Leopold Museum unveils a fine collection of tribal artServing as inspiration from the turn of the last century onward, African and Oceanic art...
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Metamorphoses on Canvas
Painting 2.0 tracks the art form and its adaptation to the information ageAt the exhibition Painting 2.0, the state of the art begins with its dem...
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On Display: Calle Libre – Living Walls
The Calle Libre Festival turns urban walls into galleriesWhen Jakob Kattner looks around Vienna, he doesn’t see the historic architecture that ...
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On Display: Heritage Twice Removed
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei explores the meaning of migration at Vienna’s 21er HausAi Weiwei is thrilled by the possibilities of his ...
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On Display: Otherworlds
Michael Benson’s photo safari through the solar systemWhile a mission to Mars, let alone the rest of the solar system, is still in the realm of ...
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On Display: Wilhelm Lehmbruck
The influential sculptor gets his first major retrospective in AustriaConsidered one of the most important German artists of the early 20th cent...
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On Display: The Future Has Arrived
At the Kunsthalle, The Promise of Total Automation imagines the shape of things to comeAn intriguing attempt to parse the possible futures heade...
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On Display: Talks – Tracking the Fakes
Expert Jane Kallir puts Egon Schiele’s works under the microscopeThere’s nothing like a good art forgery scandal to get the blood flowing: beaut...
April 2016
On Display: Body, Psyche and Taboo at MUMOK
Agents Provocateurs: Vienna’s two seminal 20th century art movements go head to head.Body, Psyche and Taboo, currently showing at the MUMOK, bri...
April 2016
On Display: Chagall to Malevich
The Russian avant-garde’s most fertile years get a comprehensive showWith few artistic periods as innovative as the short window between the la...
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On Display: Abstract Loop Austria
Postwar Austrian art gets a major retrospective with works by Marc Adrian, Richard Kriesche, Helga Philipp und Gerwald RockenschaubThe intention...
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On Display: Welten der Romantik
A luscious but flawed exhibition bridging the Northern and Mediterranean streams of the Romantics at the AlbertinaNinety years before the Secess...
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On Display: Picturing the 20th Century
An exhibition of iconic photographs from the revolutionary camera that made them possible – the legendary LeicaThe sailor kissing a girl in Time...
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Exhibition Review: Elitist Populism
Art pressed into the service of political persuasion is rarely convincing. This exhibition proves a point.
The online blurb is refreshingly honest: P...
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Eliasson’s Baroque Baroque
For the next couple of months we will exchange ideas and blog posts with TEDxVienna.
The Belvedere's Winter Palace, an unexpected exhibitio...
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Will you be an artist in the sharing economy?
For the next couple of months we will exchange ideas and blog posts with TEDxVienna. This guest post is by Julia Fellner.
Galleries, art fa...
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On Sale: Your Own Original
At the Kunstsupermarkt, original art has a tiny price tag. Who knows? You may pick up the next Ernst Fuchs, Hermann Nitsch or Gottfried Helnwein....
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Art for Arms
From antiquity to today, looting art for the black market remains big businessThere is nothing new about plundering antiquities for money. In 18...
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On Display: Women Through Men’s Eyes
Portraits by Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka at the Lower BelvedereGustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka are hardly new to art lovers ...
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On Display: Feininger & Kubin
Illustrating the unlikely friendship between two artists, the Albertina displays over 100 worksAt first glance, it may not be evident that t...
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On Display: We are Alone – Edvard Munch
Munch at the Albertina: Isolation and despair, yes, but absolutely worth itYou may want to fortify yourself with a good lunch before going into ...
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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...
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On Display: Curated by Vienna
“Tomorrow Today“ reflects on art and moneyAn annual, six-week event backed by the Vienna Business Agency, Curated by Vienna brings international...
In With The Old | Antique Shopping in Vienna
A new take on trash reduction, the 48er Tandler (The 48’s Scrap Dealer) is the latest innovation of Vienna’s beloved bright orange-clad MA 48
(Magis...
