At Your Service – Art and Labour An exhibition by the Technisches Museum Wien and ERSTE Foundation 23 March 2012–3 March 2013 Technisches Museum Wien Mariahilfer Straße 212 1140 Vienna, Austria www.technischesmuseum.at The Technisches Museum Wien and ERSTE Foundation are exploring new ground, engaging technology and art in dialogue. For the exhibition entitled AT YOUR […]
Theme of Relationship Between Human and Nature Explored in Exhibition at Rosphoto
SAINT PETERSBURG.- The exhibition by Mathias Kessler(Austria) at ROSPHOTO is result of the author’s research into the theme of relationship between human and nature. “In 2004, after a string of natural disasters and as a result of the ongoing media foc…
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com to Digitize Vast Archive for Web
WASHINGTON (AP).- Joseph Finkelstein had never seen a photograph of his grandfather. The family had no idea when he died or where he was buried. Finkelstein’s father last saw him on April 28, 1945, when they were separated at Mathaussen Concentration …
Exhibition Highlights Catalytic Role of Printmaking in the German Expressionistic Movement
NEW YORK, NY.- German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse focuses on the explosive production of graphic art—prints, drawings, posters, illustrated books, and periodicals—associated with Expressionism, the broad modernist movement that develop…
Maria Altmann, Who Recovered Gustav Klimt Paintings Looted from Her Family, Dies
LOS ANGELES (AP).- Maria Altmann, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Austria who successfully fought to recover Gustav Klimt paintings looted from her Jewish family, has died. She was 94. Altmann died Monday at her home in the Cheviot Hills area of Los Ange…
Spectacular Installation by Eva Schlegel Deals with the Theme of Flying and Falling
VIENNA.- A spectacular installation dealing with the theme of flying and falling between success and failure, at the very edge of that which is possible, stands at the center of the exhibition Eva Schlegel. In Between, is open at the MAK Exhibition Ha…
Spectacular Installation by Eva Schlegel Deals with the Theme of Flying and Falling
VIENNA.- A spectacular installation dealing with the theme of flying and falling between success and failure, at the very edge of that which is possible, stands at the center of the exhibition Eva Schlegel. In Between, is open at the MAK Exhibition Ha…
Model of Former Nazi Castle Headed to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
VIENNA (AP).- A model of an Austrian castle where the Nazis murdered about 30,000 people — including many who were mentally ill or disabled — is headed to a U.S. museum. Hartheim Castle was one of several notorious institutions that Adolf Hi…
Model of Former Nazi Castle Headed to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
VIENNA (AP).- A model of an Austrian castle where the Nazis murdered about 30,000 people — including many who were mentally ill or disabled — is headed to a U.S. museum. Hartheim Castle was one of several notorious institutions that Adolf Hi…
German Artist and Director Christoph Schlingensief Dies at Age 49
BERLIN (AP).- A spokesman for a cultural festival says German director and screenwriter Christoph Schlingensief, who was considered one of the most important figures in the country’s contemporary theater, has died. Ruhrtriennale festival spokesman Oli…