July/August 2016

Vienna’s pools are more than just a place to cool off, they are an arena for the city’s social life

Every year the Danube Canal promenade gets a little more sexy, with laid-back bars, delicious street-food-style eateries and the urban attitude to mat...

Performance and its place in Viennese lifeFlip through the digital version...

These tips will help you to channel your inner Anna Netrebko, Elfriede Jelinek, Christoph Waltz or Fred Astaire.Taking in a Zauberflöte at the Staat...

Austrian football fans have reason to celebrate. Against all odds, their team has not only qualified for the European Championship, but is also taken ...

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Europe’s largest contemporary dance festival soars above all preconceptionsDancers dream of space, limitless space to move. Of rooms with no...

For the discerning cinephile, summer screenings under the heavens have a special romanceAustrians love taking things outside. With hot but seldo...

Austria has a new chancellor and with him comes a new minister. Thomas Drozda is in charge of Arts and Culture, and while he is new to the job, we ask...

Students and professors, officials and artists all feel at home in this venerable neighborhoodIf location is everything, the Piaristenviertel in...

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

After 18 years, the Canadian-American singer-songwriter is still going strongKnown for his characteristic, warm voice, a complex, ever-changing st...

Austria’s new media-savvy chancellor Christian Kern offers a “New Deal,” while facing down the far right It was high drama in the Austrian Parliament...

Youth choirs from around the world sing for a better tomorrowHosted by Vienna’s classical music posterboys the Wiener Sängerknaben, the World Pe...

Salzburg is far more than Mozartkugeln, especially during festival seasonThe majestic Salzburg cathedral is the scenic backdrop for the seminal...

Austria still needs to stamp its identity on supporting roles in international film and TV productions. One Brit in town has a mission to help things ...

A group of gifted high schoolers will defend Austria’s “physical” fitness at the International Young Physicists’ Tournament in early JulyThe Aus...

The creators of It’s All About the Meat, Baby share their plans for the future of Vienna burgers and how to make the best oneResurrected from th...

Vienna’s dramatists have a long, brilliant and turbulent history. But no year was quite so momentous as 1929, the year modernity was born.Hedwig K...

Even in the world of wine, appearances matterSo there you are in the Vinothek, staring at the shelves. So many wine labels; so many vintages… Now w...

Ben Wheatley's retro-futurist dystopia is slick, atmospheric and nightmarishHigh-Rise, an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's scathing social critique ...

Two expat dancers, Stephanie Cumming and Katarina Meves warm up for Impulstanz in the Painting 2.0 exhibit at MumokPhotos: Markus Thums Styling...

Scientists are teaching computers about the complex factors that make music expressive. Might computers outperform humans someday?The digital ag...

We met Sharon Booth, an inpirational Canadian-born, Juilliard-educated dancer who found her way to Vienna, now teaching contemporary dance at the Staa...

Enter, stage leftThe Irish dramatist Seán O’Casey once said, “All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” As an exp...

The nearby open air festivals will keep you busy while Vienna is on vacationBathed in sunshine, white wine and world-class entertainment, the Au...

Doing business with people from different cultural backgrounds can be tricky. Understanding them is the first step to making it workThere is an ol...

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei explores the meaning of migration at Vienna’s 21er HausAi Weiwei is thrilled by the possibilities of his ...

Austria's true challenge of the ongoing refugee crisis lies not in handling the immediate influx, but in making sure those who stay, stay with a purpo...

Screening at Sundance and Cannes, this indie family drama explores parenthoodWinning best director at Cannes’ Un certain regard competition this y...

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

Raise the curtain! Cue the lights! For these Vienna-based performers, the show must go on. A classical violinist, an opera soprano, a musical theater ...

Under a night sky, boating can rekindle romance – if you avoid the obstaclesWith schools out and the European Championships drawing to a close, ...

Trump notwithstanding, America has been far more successful than Austria at making newcomers feel part of society.The key is approach: A fervent b...