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Istanbul´s streets through the eyes of Ara Güler
If, like me, you are into classic street photography, the exhibition “Istanbul´s Eye” (das Auge Istanbuls) at the Leica Store near the Vienna opera is for you. Until 24 August you can visit their upstairs gallery and look at a selection of photographs by the famous Armenian-Turkish photographer Ara Güler. Admittedly I had not heard…
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A long time tramming
Vienna has one of the best public transport systems in the world. I live in one of the outer districts, and yet I can make it into downtown in under half an hour, including walking time. Yesterday I got to find out more about the long history of trams and public buses in Vienna during…
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Fridays for Future
Time for a pro-nature conservation rant (after all, my VienNature Culturegram has the word “nature” in it, and I´ve been neglecting that part a bit). “Species have always gone extinct”. “The earth´s climate has changed many times before”. This and other unscientific global warming and climate change myths are commonly spouted by the uninformed and…
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Street art goes museum
The Wien Museum´s central location on Karlsplatz has now been emptied out in preparation or extensive renovation and reconstruction works that will start this fall. Meanwhile though, the museum curators Karina Karadensky and Christine Koblitz had the excellent idea to make the walls of the museum available for street artists, who have painted all rooms…
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A global adventure at home
No, I am not talking about traveling the world. Or maybe I am — but while staying home in my city. What I did the other day was virtually travel around the globe, actually around a lot of globes, right here in Vienna 🙂 I joined Instagramers Austria for a visit to Vienna´s Globe…
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Together and Proud in Vienna
I´ve been a bit lazy about blog writing lately, what with the nice summer weather and so many photo opportunities around town that I can hardly catch up even with the photo editing. But I do want to show some of my recent photos from the day of the Lifeball 2019 in Vienna, and I…
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This is important
The impressive portraits by the German-Italian photographer Luigi Toscano of surviving victims of Nazi atrocities on Vienna’s Ringstrasse were damaged three times during their showing in Vienna. In these pictures Luigi Toscano confronts us with large-scale versions of the faces of contemporary witnesses, survivors of the Holocaust, with eyes that look directly at you, serious…
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Subjective stories of objects at Weltmuseum Wien
Things. Lots of things. Beautiful, curious, “exotic”, “ethnic”, historic things. That is what you will find at the Weltmuseum Wien, which houses an extensive collection of artifacts accumulated by collectors over the last few centuries by explorers of other worlds. These traveling collectors (such as Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este) were usually rich or…
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Fashion, and art, darling
If you´ve been reading my blog for a while you know that I am a fan of the Tiefe Kümmernis, probably Vienna´s only art expert who is also on occasion a drag queen. This weekend s/he is leading another tour entitled “Fashion, Darling” at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna on 28 April, and it´s all about…
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OstLicht reloads
If you are into photography and live in Vienna, you may have stopped by the centrally located Westlicht Gallery. But have you been to its sister gallery, Ostlicht? I have to admit, despite really enjoying photography, last week´s #instawalk with @igersaustria was my first visit to this great gallery. Ostlicht. Gallery for Photography is located…
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