A Gustav Klimt landscape has sold for 30 million Euros in New York. The painting, entitled “Litzlberg am Attersee” was stolen by the Nazis in Austria in 1938 and recently returned to the owner this year. The painting, which depicts rolling hills beside a lake, was in The Salzburg Museum of Modern Art until last […]
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New MQ boss named
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An Upper Austrian real estate manager has been appointed as head of Vienna’s Museumsquartier (MQ). Federal Social Democratic (SPÖ) Culture Minister Claudia Schmied and Viennese SPÖ Culture Councillor Andreas Mailath-Pokorny announced yesterday (Weds) Christian Strasser would head the MQ for five years from 1 October. His contract can be extended without public submission, they explained. […]
Vienna-based artist Petronilla Hohenwarter is travelling to Chicago this October to take part in the art project Artists Respond Globally (ARG).The project pairs artists in Chicago with international artists from South Africa, Malaysia, Brazil, Austria, Bulgaria, France and Germany, who then work together remotely. The project finishes with an exhibition in Chicago in October 2011.ARG […]
Cerha to get Salzburg gong
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Friedrich Cerha will be honoured with the 2011 Salzburg Music Prize, it has emerged.The 84-year-old composer and conductor who received the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 2005 is the third artist after Salvatore Sciarrino and Klaus Huber to get the award which includes a prize money of 60,000 Euros.The three-member […]
Croat uni rejects Erste’s 8,000
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A Croatian university has controversially turned down an offered 8,000-Euro donation by the foundation of one of Austrias biggest banks.Erste Banks Erste Stiftung foundation wanted to support the Faculty of Philosophy in Split with 8,000 Euros, but dean Dr. Marko Trogrlic rejected the offer citing fears it would “interfere with the facultys autonomy”.Ljiljana Kolesnik, who […]