Tag:Art

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Polish artists bring Vienna’s streets, stages and dance floors to life

After delays and controversy, Albertina Modern opens with an extensive review of Austrian art from 1945-1980.

Founded in 1741, the Burgtheater always had a strong link between language and national identity, but today it stages an international ensemble of artists. Just like the Volkstheater, Vienna’s stages are opening up to Europe and beyond.

The shoe designer is blending the line between fashion and art with sculptural footwear.

A chance encounter with Christo and Jeanne Claude, the artists who once planned to wrap up one of Vienna’s Flakturm in a giant gauze.

The famed Austrian painter’s recently recovered “Portrait of a Woman” is confirmed as the one stolen from an Italian museum over two decades ago.

I guess human beings will always pay attention to anything that moves. Or makes noise. In fact, I paid attention to people doing both for more than an...

The opening concert of Vienna’s festival of new music kicks off five weeks of contemporary sounds.

You couldn’t miss it if you tried. After the vast vineyards, golden sunflower fields, apricot trees heavy with fruit and century-old farmhouse...

The scene may feel like an impenetrable world from the outside. In truth, it’s within any art lover’s reach. The trick is knowing where to look – and how.

Sleepy little town on the Danube – or hotbed of political intrigue and architecture? Surrounded by vineyards and just an hour from Vienna, Krems is both.

Ever since its inception, Impulstanz has grown in reach and output while welcoming all ages, all levels, all bodies.  The expansive world of contem...

Born out of the ashes of the Great War, the Salzburg Festspiele carries on Max Reinhardt's dream of a Europe united through culture. Where other...

Thiasus’ production of The Vagina Monologues brings real-life stories about the joys and sorrows of femininity to Vienna. When The Vagina Monologue...

Rojava offers lessons on love, life and death from the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria Rojava, the self-described autonomous admi...

Christophe Slagmuylder, the new artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen, presents his first program.   

Every month, we list up a bunch of quotes that we like. Here are our best quotes about architecture:  

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...

Whether it’s with handmade leather crafts, a hot new fashion emporium or tiny houses for everyone, this month’s local finds make it easy to express yo...

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 &...

Metropole and viennacontemporary join forces to help new buyers navigate the local art scene in style When you visit the sauna for the first time...

Follow big and little sister on a break-in! The destination: Artist Hannes Mlenik’s Arch in the Vienna Prater Ateliers. Once inside, the sisters con...

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...

Twenty years of the Arnold Schönberg Center and an exhibit on Jung-Wien, Vienna’s fin-de-siècle creative wave “New music is never beautiful on fi...

The combative artist gets a large retrospective There is no denying that throughout the history of art, the bulk of works has come from men who p...

The Heidi Horten Collection at the Leopold Museum spins recent art history into an aesthetic narrative. Imagine a greatest hits collection of 20t...

The noted contemporary photographer Elina Brotherus blends formality with playfulness. Autobiographical and perfectionistic, Elina Brotherus’ m...

A tribute to the artist, 
from graffiti to the Guggenheim. One of the most recognized artists of the 1980s, Keith Haring channeled ancient cave...

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...

The Akademie der bildenden Künste has helped turn generations of students from all over the world into masters of the visual arts. Behind the h...

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

On this centennial of the deaths of four Viennese masters, the city looks back on the birth of modernism and a vision of the “total work of art,” an e...

Just as we should not condemn a work of art because of the artist’s private behavior, we should also be careful about applying norms of social respect...

Art is always of its time, and the best of it, timeless. From classical portraiture to contemporary installations, visual art recreate...

Great art has the power of legend. So it’s perhaps not surprising that one of the most spectacular legal disputes in post-war Austria was over the “Th...

Predating Instagram by several decades, Polaroid’s instant photographs were a hit from the mid-20th century up to the digital revolution, fitt...

A spawning ground for many venerable creators, the Universität für Angewandte Kunst (University of Applied Arts) – or Angewandte for short – i...

The past is only foreign if you deny its powerful impact on the present Thanks to fresh research by curators Birgit Johle...

The Weltmuseum revises our approach to ethnology while celebrating our diversity As the world changes, so do our perspect...

The Flemish master is shown to be a meticulous draughtsman Combining exceptional craftsmanship with a keen eye and attention to detail, ...

The Old World has no claim to great European art. A magnificent gallery showcases Vienna’s treasures in the Big Apple Europeans like to believe t...

A new show on the Renaissance polymath demonstrates the creative process of a genius Mentioned in the same breath as Leonardo and Michelangelo, R...

MAK director Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on the resonance of objects, digital humanism and how we can design our way out of the singularity Every...

In Vienna, with so much arts and culture, design may seem like an afterthought. In fact, it's all around us, shaping how we live, eat and dress T...

One of Austria’s finest expressionists receives his first major show in over 50 years With a dynamic and dazzling figural style marked by a fierc...

No longer in its infancy, Viennacontemporary asserts itself as the leading art marketplace in Austria The best art fairs offer a little something...

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...

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...

Mankind’s effect on the mother nature captured by the renowned Canadian photographer In a journey of seven years that spanned five continents and...

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...

Faruqee’s pulsating compositions make their solo debut in Europe Most revolutions turn stuffy with time. But the Secession certainly tries to cul...

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...

Her unreleased masterpieces presented at new exhibition. One of Spain’s most renowned artists, Cristina Garcia Rodero approaches photography wi...

A Leopold Museum exhibition juxtaposes the past and present with two artists famous for their satirical takes on everyday social norms. Somewhat ...

The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW) celebrates its 200th anniversary with a cascade of events Friends of mine used to live...

Glasses from the Empire and Biedermeier Period documents a rising middle class and its search for its own aesthetic There’s nothing new about con...

The Belvedere’s Winterpalais takes a walk on fashion’s exquisite ugly side exploring vulgar fashion Plunging necklines, exposed straps, emblazone...

Nychos is a rising star of the Viennese and international graffiti scene. He gave us a look into his life as a street artist from a beach in Maui, bec...

Film stills as drama suspended, art as advertisement: Even if you’ve never seen the movie, chances are you know the image They are the indelible vis...

Georgia O’Keeffe stars in her largest retrospective outside of her home country Most people first get to know Georgia O’Keeffe through her volupt...

The prolific artist’s collaborations with other notables underline the significance of participation A firm believer in communication and partici...

The Money Museum documents the country’s history with cold hard cash Money is ubiquitous; after all it makes the world go round. However, for a m...

Visual artist Sarah Morris’ solo exhibition focuses on her cinematographic work No stranger to the weird of the everyday, painter and filmmaker S...

How the Vienna Secession revived an archaic technique – in brilliant color Exploring a lesser-known chapter of the storied Secession, Vienna’s fi...

The prominent Austrian artist redecorates the Belvedere’s Orangerie Celebrated as one of Austria’s most prominent contemporary artists, Hubert Sc...

Nina Prader brings you her impressions of the viennacontemporary art fair   Last week, you read her account of how Austrian artists repre...

Germany’s jocular anti-traditionalist genius returns to Vienna posthumously. Widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of the late...

The Albertina pin-points Pointillism’s meticulously methodical mark-making. Georges Seurat once insisted that, although some saw poetry in his pa...

Egon Schiele – Death and the Maiden paints a picture of flawed genius. It’s always challenging to portray a beloved historical figure. Striking a bal...

One of the foremost collections of erotic art from the floating world makes waves in Vienna. Despite countless attempts by officials to prohibit ...

Photojournalism’s finest comes to Vienna With the dissemination of images today moving faster than the shutter speed of a camera, it’s easy to fe...

Austria’s leading contemporary art fair presents emerging talent, highlighting collaborative new work from around Central Europe Showcasing both ne...

The Leopold Museum unveils a fine collection of tribal art Serving as inspiration from the turn of the last century onward, African and Oceanic art...

Painting 2.0 tracks the art form and its adaptation to the information age At the exhibition Painting 2.0, the state of the art begins with its dem...