Category: museum
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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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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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Love – actually, Ganymed in love at the KHM
All you need is love, and Ganymed: another wonderful evening of performances and art at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. What a beautiful evening of theatre, and music, dance, and the visual delights of the setting at the KHM! Love and song – songs about romantic love dominate the charts. But do we really know…
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Not good enough? Think again!
Well, it´s international women´s day again, the moment in time when all the hardships and injustices done to women in the past and in the now are brought to the forefront of media attention. But the focus of my blog today is not on the general politics of or against feminism and women´s rights. Rather,…
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An art salon in a princely collection
In what I would call an eye-popping exhibition space with walls in blazing red, blue and green (I love it!), the Albertina Museum is showing masterpieces from the Princely Collections of the House of Liechtenstein in an exhibition titled “From Rubens to Makart“. The Liechtenstein collections contain major works of European art spanning five centuries…
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Wild beasts and peasant life at the Albertina: Niko Pirosmani
Just before leaving for a two week trip I managed to finally go see the exhibition of paintings by the Georgian painter Niko Pirosmani at the Albertina Museum. There is just one more day to see this exhibition of naive depictions of animals, farmlife, and battle scenes. Painting to make a living Pirosmani was born…
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Japanesery
Before 1854 trade with Japan was confined to a Dutch monopoly and Japanese goods imported into Europe were for the most part confined to porcelain and lacquer ware. But when the 200-year-old Japanese foreign policy of Seclusion ended and trade between Japan and the West opened up, a sort of collection craze of Japanese art…
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