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Vienna’s Belvedere Museum Highlights Three Early Modernists Who Straddled Europe and Asia

by Avedis Hadjian March 8, 2022March 8, 2022

For the first time in three centuries the Belvedere Museum is displaying creations by artists who are not Austrian and have no connection to Austrian art.

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Researchers Trace the Origin of Venus of Willendorf to Northern Italy

by Jasmine Liu March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

But they are also open to the possibility that it may have originated from eastern Ukraine.

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What Are Messerschmidt’s Bizarre 18th-century Sculpted Heads Trying To Tell Us?

by Avedis Hadjian February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

For Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, his Character Heads were his way to forestall the demons that tortured him.

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To Evade Social Media Censors, Vienna Museums Pivot to OnlyFans

by Hakim Bishara October 19, 2021October 19, 2021

The profile includes works by Egon Schiele, Amedeo Modigliani, Peter Paul Rubens, and a prehistoric Venus of Willendorf figurine.

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Austria Should Repatriate the Mexica Headdress

by Kayla Johnson August 17, 2021August 17, 2021

The headdress in Austria is the only one of its kind and it’s not only a work of art, but a representation of the identity and landscape of Mexico that was stripped from the nation by colonial forces.

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A Dürer Retrospective Celebrates His Remarkable Drawings

by Olivia McEwan January 3, 2020

A show at Vienna’s Albertina reverses the more commonly held belief in art history that drawings are merely preparatory to paintings.

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Iraqi Performance Artists Use Silence as a Gesture of Dissent

by Cleo Abramian November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

The Vienna-based group Iraqi Autumn draws attention to the international community’s silence regarding the outbreak of violence in Iraq over the past two months.

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Caravaggio and Bernini, Together at Last

by Michael Glover November 9, 2019November 11, 2019

We could call this exhibition a battle of the swaggerers.

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Transforming the Cinema Into a Wholly Sustainable Space

by Georgia Holz November 6, 2019November 5, 2019

The exhibition Ecocinema explores the relationship between humans and nature, and goes a step further: transforming the Kunsthalle into four movie theaters, using sustainable, natural materials.

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The Relationship of Decadence to Decay in Austria’s “Pleasure Capital”

by Skye Thomas October 10, 2019October 11, 2019

Within the theme of the “Grand Hotel Abyss,” the Steirischer Herbst 2019 art festival dropped visitors into a continuous past, present, and future of decadence, theatrics, and deviance.

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A Living Forest Planted in a Soccer Stadium Incites Rightwing Backlash

by Jasmine Weber September 17, 2019September 17, 2019

Curator Klaus Littmann’s grove of trees planted in the middle of an Austrian soccer stadium has become an unlikely flashpoint.

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Reconciling Secular Art in Sacred Spaces

by David Carrier July 20, 2019July 21, 2019

Surprises and puzzles in Venice and Vienna, from Sean Scully to Tintoretto.

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