Category: museum
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Stones that speak
On Friday I showed you bits of my neighbourhood, which was created during the days of working class housing- and food shortages that followed World War I and the breakup of the Habsburg Empire. But of course this problem extended to all of Vienna, and the cooperative garden settlements that were built in the 1920s…
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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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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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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 to…
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