Gallery Run: Triggered Photography
With the rise of general access to camera technology, what Susan Sonntag calls “a democracy of photographs,” fine art photography has had to defend its aesthetic function from becoming usurped by journalism, advertising, iPhone apps and Facebook feeds. All this came to the fore in November, the European Month of Photography: Eyes On, staking out [...]
Art Metropolis, Living Memory
Variety caters to the pleasure principle, but it also creates a painful, existential dilemma: You’d have to be a loaf of bread sliced very thin,…
Gallery Run, Nov. 2012: I Love Ottakring
The 16th District is on the rise in the art scene, hosting “Soho in Ottakring” in the spring and Vienna Design Week – with pop-up…
Graffiti Gone Gallery
Away from viral anarchistic squiggles on the façades of buildings, street art has made it onto gallery walls. Graffiti got so hip, it has gone…
Young Contemporaries, Fledgling Art
Every month galleries in all districts simultaneously open their doors from afternoon to evening, beckoning with wine and art for the Gallery Crawl (Gallerien Rundgang).…
About Nina Prader
Remembering to Reinvent
Birds were twittering, a raven squawked as children frolicked and cattle graze in the lush grass: This was…
Gallery Run: Actionism, the Life Ball, and Guest Workers
Next to gilded Klimt, the wild performances of Viennese Actionists of the 1960s are one of the international…
The White Cube: What makes an art space
The notion of “the white cube” is now collective art knowledge. The ideology of what qualifies as a…
365 The Fox House: Seedling Storefront
If you are in the arts scene, or you consider yourself a cultural revolutionary in Vienna, then you…