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. AContinue reading “Individualistic, sensitive, powerful – contemporary drawings at the Albertina”
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Making Truth
Can you believe it’s already the 1st of December and this year is nearly done? But, scary as that is, that’s not what I want to talk about. Rather, this is a flashback to just a couple of weeks ago when I got to meet some Viennese artists. For me it´s always a thrill toContinue reading “Making Truth”
Tricky imperial mysteries at the KHM
I like both a good mystery and art. So I was thrilled to be invited to join a new “mystery hunt” game at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna: The Emperor´s magic circle (“Der magische Kreis des Kaisers“) – the title alone conjured up images of conspiracies and bewitching secrets in my brain. What would it take,Continue reading “Tricky imperial mysteries at the KHM”
Return of the dead to Weltmuseum Wien
Yes, they are back this weekend, the dead and not so dead, celebrating Día de los Muertos with a whole series of events at Weltmuseum Wien. After a year´s absence, fortunately the Weltmuseum opened its doors again for the festivities and exhibitions surrounding this traditional Mexican holiday. Why, you might ask, would a Mexican holidayContinue reading “Return of the dead to Weltmuseum Wien”
A noisy orchestra of colours: Bosch & Banisadr
Ali Banisadr speaks of the fantastic colourful figures that populate his canvases as if they were independent beings, born into his creative world out of a chaotic cacophony of sound and colour that slowly comes together as a symphony. It is not often that I get to meet an important contemporary artist, and I feelContinue reading “A noisy orchestra of colours: Bosch & Banisadr”
Individual nature – Kiki Smith
Before it´s too late (just one more week), I absolutely had to go see the exhibition of Kiki Smith´s large size canvases and other works at the Lower Belvedere museum. The Belvedere is showing about sixty works of this American artist´s multi-facetted oevre in the exhibition Processions , including sculptures, large tapestries, and objects andContinue reading “Individual nature – Kiki Smith”
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 duringContinue reading “A long time tramming”
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 roomsContinue reading “Street art goes museum”
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 GlobeContinue reading “A global adventure at home”
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 IContinue reading “Together and Proud in Vienna”
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