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Hundreds Denounce Academy of Fine Arts Vienna’s Cancelation of Lecture on Palestine

by Jasmine Liu June 15, 2022June 21, 2022

Scholar Walaa Alqaisiya’s talk was pulled following accusations of antisemitism from pro-Israel groups.

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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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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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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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Milena Büsch’s Large Paintings Parody Consumer Culture

by Max L. Feldman August 10, 2019August 9, 2019

These deceptively decorative works critique the conventions and implied values of the classic bourgeois interior.

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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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Excavating Mark Rothko’s Theatrical Foundations

by David Carrier June 22, 2019July 12, 2019

The paintings Rothko made before 1948 are considered minor, but an exhibition in Vienna claims that they are essential to understanding the artist’s mature works.

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Vienna Museum Cancels Palestine Event with South African Anti-Apartheid Leader

by Dorian Batycka March 25, 2019

In response to the cancellation, Ronnie Kasrils wrote: “It’s disappointing then to find those rights now curtailed in Austria for wanting to express solidarity with the Palestinian people and sharing the South African experience and lessons with the Austrian people.”

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Discovering the Women of Art Brut

by Edward M. Gómez February 23, 2019February 22, 2019

In Vienna, a new exhibition showcases the ideas and accomplishments of self-taught female artists.

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