A show at Vienna’s Albertina reverses the more commonly held belief in art history that drawings are merely preparatory to paintings.
Tag: Vienna
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.
Milena Büsch’s Large Paintings Parody Consumer Culture
These deceptively decorative works critique the conventions and implied values of the classic bourgeois interior.
Reconciling Secular Art in Sacred Spaces
Surprises and puzzles in Venice and Vienna, from Sean Scully to Tintoretto.
Excavating Mark Rothko’s Theatrical Foundations
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.
Vienna Museum Cancels Palestine Event with South African Anti-Apartheid Leader
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.”
Discovering the Women of Art Brut
In Vienna, a new exhibition showcases the ideas and accomplishments of self-taught female artists.
The Artists Who Led Secret Lives as Musicians
Double Lives showcases the sound-based creations of people better known as artists than musicians.
Viennese Museum Board Blasts New Austrian Government for Coopting Its Motto
Austria’s new coalition government, which includes the far-right Freedom Party, quotes the Secession’s motto in its official program for governing during the next five years.
The Postcard as the Engine of Early Modernist Culture
What significance does a single image have in visual culture? The postcard, that old redoubt of tourists in need of a (semi-ironic) memento to send back home, doesn’t play such an active role in our contemporary aesthetics, but it once did.
Oldest Temple Found, State of Arts Funding, Detroit Police Terrorize Art Patrons
… winning design of new U.S. embassy in London announced … Vienna’s famed Secession hall is turning gallery space into a sex hall as part of an art project … the 2010 Whitney Biennial has opened and the reviews have started to roll in.