Category: art
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Finally exposed to paintings again
Going to an art museum may not usually seem that exciting, but when I rode my bike to the Belvedere21 yesterday, for the first time in months, since Covid-19 Lockdown measures shut down all of Vienna´s museums, I felt pretty exhilarated. The modern art venue of the venerable Belvedere Museum offered special thematic tours on…
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Venice in between
Between the floods (the terrible Acqua Alta of 12 Nov 2019) and the lock-down due to the Covid-19 epidemic in 2020, Venice has not had much luck lately. La Serenissima Repubblica di San Marco is suffering, and I feel for the inhabitants of this beautiful city (and of course all others affected by it). Usually…
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Ping Pong for photographers
One of several cultural activities I meant to write about while the exhibition is still open was a visit to the OstLicht Gallery with Instagramers Vienna, an invitation by Female Photographers Vienna. This was supposed to be on until 28 March, but of course COVID-19 also closed down this space, although from the website I…
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All clear for contemporary art
I had wanted to wait for the opening of Albertina Modern and introduce two fantastic modern art institutions in one go. Because under one beautiful roof – at the historic and just reopened Künstlerhaus Wien – we now have now have two galleries. The original owner, the Künstlerhaus Vereinigung (Vienna Association of Fine Artists), is…
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Family matters
They say, you can choose your friends, but not your family. Well, I guess that depends on how you define family. The way the Dom Museum Wien sees it, there is certainly many ways to look at families, and family histories can be tragedies or comedies, or both. The current exhibition, Family Matters at the…
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Tropical Art Deco
Miami isn´t just about beaches and shopping malls and traffic jams – duh! But that´s pretty much what I used to associate with it. How wrong I was! It is all that too, but there is so much more. The thing is, I have family there, and so I have been to Miami many times,…
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Italian vibes in Miami
A year ago we drove from Vienna all the way to the Amalfi coast, in search of a bit of warmth. We were not so lucky, most of the time it was rather cold and rainy. But this January, we really did get lucky – only what you see here is not really Italy. When…
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A Renaissance genius – Albrecht Dürer at the Albertina
Albrecht Dürer had an impressive natural talent for life-like drawing and painting. Born in Nuremberg in 1471 as the third son of a goldsmith, young Albrecht already painted an impressive self-portrait at the age of 13 and later in life produced astounding, almost photorealistic portraits. The Albertina museum has a selection of over 100 drawings,…
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A moody Christmas present in my inbox
I just got a really nice Christmas present in my inbox. The third issue of the Street and Moody Zine, aptly sub-titled Merry drunk! I’m Christmas! is out. For the latest issue the editor featured my Aarhus photo as chapter cover for the Moody section and also included two more of my photos. So permit…
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Individualistic, sensitive, powerful – contemporary drawings at the Albertina
Drawing is more subtle than painting. It does not tend to jump out at you quite so much. It asks you to take your time, to look at detail, to admire fine lines. The Albertina Museum has put together a fine exhibition of contemporary drawings from the Guerlain Collection from the Centre Pompidou Paris. A…
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