July/August 2016

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 life Flip 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 preconceptions Dancers dream of space, limitless space to move. Of rooms with no...

For the discerning cinephile, summer screenings under the heavens have a special romance Austrians 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 neighborhood If location is everything, the Piaristenviertel in...

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

After 18 years, the Canadian-American singer-songwriter is still going strong Known 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 tomorrow Hosted by Vienna’s classical music posterboys the Wiener Sängerknaben, the World Pe...

Salzburg is far more than Mozartkugeln, especially during festival season The 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 July The 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 one Resurrected from th...

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

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 Kie...

Ben Wheatley's retro-futurist dystopia is slick, atmospheric and nightmarish High-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 Mumok Photos: Markus Thums Styling...

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

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

The nearby open air festivals will keep you busy while Vienna is on vacation Bathed 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 work There is an ol...

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...

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

Screening at Sundance and Cannes, this indie family drama explores parenthood Winning 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 obstacles With 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...