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Art Collective Ousted From Viennese Kunsthalle Speaks Out

Avatar photo by Avedis Hadjian January 23, 2023January 24, 2023

“We wanted Kunsthalle Wien to address multiple Viennas, not just the old established one,” said What, How & for Whom, whose contract at the institution was not renewed.

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Immersing Yourself in the Works of Gustav Klimt

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu October 6, 2022October 6, 2022

Gustav Klimt: Gold in Motion transforms a historic bank in Manhattan into the unlikely setting of an immersive art experience one visitor called “mesmerizing.”

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Italy Thwarts Potential Illegal Sale of $2M Artemisia Gentileschi Painting

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie July 20, 2022July 20, 2022

The Carabinieri’s art crime unit said Gentileschi’s masterpiece “Caritas Romana” was on its way to be sold in Vienna.

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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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?

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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

Avatar photo 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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