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Christo in Vienna
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.
Online
Klimt Portrait Passes the Test
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.
General
Wien Modern III | Anything That Moves
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...
Online
Wien Modern Erupts
The opening concert of Vienna’s festival of new music kicks off five weeks of contemporary sounds.
Art
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...
How To
How To… Become an Art Collector
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.
Out of Town
A Charming Tour of Krems | Wine, Music & Art
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.
Culture
Popular Movement
Ever since its inception, Impulstanz has grown in reach and output while welcoming all ages, all levels, all bodies. The expansive world of contem...
Culture
Performing Private Parts
Thiasus’ production of The Vagina Monologues brings real-life stories about the joys and sorrows of femininity to Vienna.When The Vagina Monologue...
Culture
A Hello to Arms | Rojava at the Volkstheater
Rojava offers lessons on love, life and death from the Autonomous Administration of North and East SyriaRojava, the self-described autonomous admi...
Culture
Challenging Conservatism
Christophe Slagmuylder, the new artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen, presents his first program.
Culture
Quotable Quotes | Architecture
Every month, we list up a bunch of quotes that we like. Here are our best quotes about architecture:
Art
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...
Culture
Local Finds | Architecture
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...
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 &...
Art
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...
Culture
A Tale of Two Sisters
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...
Art
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...
Culture
“Supersaturated with Electricity” | Anticipation for Arnold Schönberg Anniversary Exhibi...
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...
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
City Life
How the Akademie der Bildenen Künste has Turned Generations of Students Into Masters of the Visual A...
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...
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?
Cover Stories
The Birth of Modernism | 100 Years of Artistic Excellence and Revolution
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...
Opinion
Opinion | Moralism & the Arts
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...
Blog
Editors Letter | To Every Art its Freedom | March 2018
Art is always of its time, and the best of it, timeless. From classical portraiture to contemporary installations, visual art recreate...
Vienna Legal
Vienna Legal | The Lady in Gold
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
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 presentThanks to fresh research by curators Birgit Johle...
Art
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...
International
Visiting Adele Bloch-Bauer at the Neue Galerie in NYC
The Old World has no claim to great European art. A magnificent gallery showcases Vienna’s treasures in the Big AppleEuropeans like to believe t...
Art
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...
Melange
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on Design for the Neo-Biedermeier age
MAK director Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on the resonance of objects, digital humanism and how we can design our way out of the singularityEvery...
Cover Stories
The Turbulent Times of Viennese Design
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 dressT...
Art
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...
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 livesGiven any traveler’s willingness to pay for charm, i...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
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 toneBeing voted “most-livable” city can be a double-edged sword. Ever...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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 ...
Music
Celebrating 200 Years of Teaching Music and Performing Arts
The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW) celebrates its 200th anniversary with a cascade of eventsFriends of mine used to live a...
Art
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...
Art
Vulgar Fashion
The Belvedere’s Winterpalais takes a walk on fashion’s exquisite ugly side exploring vulgar fashionPlunging necklines, exposed straps, emblazone...
People
Acquainted with the Night
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...
Art
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 ...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Art
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...
Film
Egon Schiele – Portrait of the Artist
Egon Schiele – Death and the Maiden paints a picture of flawed genius.It’s always challenging to portray a beloved historical figure. Striking a b...
Art
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 ...
Art
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...
Art
Vienna Contemporary 2016
Austria’s leading contemporary art fair presents emerging talent, highlighting collaborative new work from around Central EuropeShowcasing both ne...
Art
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...
Art
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...
