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Article date: Monday, August 17, 2020

Albertina Shows 'The Beginning. Art in Austria, 1945-1980'

The opening exhibition of ALBERTINA MODERN, entitled The Beginning. Art in Austria, 1945 to 1980, offers the first-ever comprehensive overview of a period that numbers among Austrian art history’s most innovative. On exhibit are the most important artistic stances situated at the threshold of postmodernism—from the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism to early abstraction, Viennese Actionism, kinetic and concrete art, Austria’s own version of pop art, and the socially critical realism so characteristic of Vienna.

Article date: Saturday, August 15, 2020

UNESCO Rallies International Community to Safeguard Beirut’s Cultural Life and Heritage

Following the devastating twin explosions in Beirut, Lebanon, on 4 August, UNESCO mobilized leading cultural organizations and experts from Lebanon and abroad in an online meeting on 10 August to coordinate emergency and longer-term measures to safeguard the city’s severely damaged cultural heritage and rehabilitate its cultural life.

Article date: Tuesday, August 11, 2020

11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art to Open in September

Since September 2019, the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art has been unfolding as a process with “exp. 1”, “exp. 2”, and “exp. 3”. From 5 September to 1 November 2020, the upcoming exhibition, the epilogue, will bring together these experiences and the issues they raise in four locations, including the Gropius Bau.

Article date: Monday, August 10, 2020

Austrian Art Market Benefits from the Reduction in VAT to Five Per Cent

The Austrian galleries have a difficult spring behind him. Without the participation in foreign trade fairs, many art dealers are in a precarious situation, because in contrast to Germany, there is a lack of local collect prevails in the Alpine Republic still in force. The Federal government supports the participation in international art fairs with up to 14 000 Euro.

Article date: Friday, August 7, 2020

Two Royal Statues Return from US to be Displayed at Grand Egyptian Museum

Egypt on Thursday received two enormous royal statues that had been displayed as part of the exhibition “Sunken Cities: The Enchanting World of Egypt” in the US. The statues will be installed at the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Article date: Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Magritte in Full Sunlight at the Musee de l'Orangerie - the "Renoir" Period 1940-1947

The Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie have organised an exhibition of René Magritte’s "Renoir Period", which extended from 1943 until 1947. The first exhibition to show a still largely unknown chapter of Magritte’s work in its entirety, it compares Magritte’s works with those of Auguste Renoir, who inspired him.

Article date: Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Mamco Geneve Exhibits Traces of Articulations by Franz Mon

Franz Mon (born in 1926 in Frankfurt am Main) is one of the pioneers of experimental literature and art breaking new ground in the mid-twentieth century. His poetic work started in the wake of the spirit that pervaded all the arts in the 1950s and shattered the boundaries of genres.

Article date: Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Shareholders Agree to the Board of Directors’ Package of Measures

The Extraordinary General Meeting of MCH Group Ltd. on 3 August 2020 approved all the proposals of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors can thus proceed with the implementation of the package of measures submitted for the financial recovery and further strategic realignment of the company.

Article date: Tuesday, July 28, 2020

CUMEDIAE - Supporting Creativity In the Wake of the Global Pandemic

"The creative industries are special industries in that they exist between different worlds. Two worlds that need to communicate one with each other for any creative idea to be turned into a sustainable project: on the one side, the world of those with the passion of creativity; and on the other, the world of those with some knowledge about funding, management and the legal framework".

Article date: Friday, July 24, 2020

‘Art Needs No Roof’ in Vilnius: 100 Billboards With Contemporary AR

Lithuanian capital Vilnius has turned its centre into an open-air art gallery. The outdoor advertising exhibition contains 100 works of local art. Art lovers may contact the artists through the special website. The website contains images and descriptions of art objects, their prices and contacts of authors.

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