Legendary studio’s archives opened for upcoming photo exhibit

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More than 100 photographs from the archive of one of Vienna’s most renowned studios will be on display at the city’s WestLicht (www.westlicht.com) gallery from next week.Organisers of the “Photo Simonis” exhibit said today (Thurs) the archive material of the studio of the same name was rescued when the company stopped doing business in 2005. […]

Moustached Mona Lisa watches over Vienna crossroads

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A sculpture of a bearded Mona Lisa crafted by an Indian artist praised as “Asia’s Damien Hirst” has gone on display in Vienna.Subodh Gupta said yesterday (Tues) he wanted to communicate with late French-American artist Marcel Duchamp with his work “Et tu, Duchamp?”.Duchamp controversially reproduced Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting with a moustache and […]