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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
We could call this exhibition a battle of the swaggerers.
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Transforming the Cinema Into a Wholly Sustainable Space
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”
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
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
Surprises and puzzles in Venice and Vienna, from Sean Scully to Tintoretto.