“A bicycle from Poland. Pieces of a Messerschmitt fighter plane from U.S. Air Force archives in Alabama. Camp log books from Caen. An embroidered handkerchief, tossed out a prison window by a woman on her way to execution for helping Allied paratroopers. A rusty watchtower searchlight, unearthed just last year. Wedding rings, watches & photos confiscated upon arrival here 1938-45.
On 5 May, two new permanent exhibitions were opened at Austria’s concentration camp memorial at Mauthausen along with a Room of Names – all part of an ongoing redesign scheduled for completion in 2018.”>full text (c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
Archive for review
Wittgenstein – The Duty of Genius
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, biography, Great Britain, Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy, review on 17 July 2013 by delclem
“Assessing the life of a philosopher may be a writer’s greatest challenge – with few individuals do the spiritual and emotional realms play such a prominent role in moulding professional consequences. With that in mind, author Ray Monk sets off on a very specific quest in Ludwig Wittgenstein: Duty of Genius – to draw, where countless others have failed, an unbroken line between the work of the philosopher and the man himself.” >review (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
Korngold biography
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Brno, Czechoslovakia, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Hollywood, Music, opera, review on 15 July 2013 by delclem
Fifteen years after its first publication, a biography of the composer is translated into German >review & illustration (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
“When the Devil Danced in Hungary”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Hungary, László Krasznahorkai, Literature, review, Satantango on 30 June 2013 by delclem
“One evening in October 2010, the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai—a man in his fifties with a biblical look—appeared on the balcony of the Collegium Hungaricum in Berlin, a white modernist building that’s a block north of Unter den Linden. At the same time an image of a dog, in silhouette, was projected from inside the building onto a large window below the balcony. Without introduction or explanation, Krasznahorkai then began to speak.”>more/ review (c) NYROB, 2013
Franz Ferdinand’s Journey around the World
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria, diary, review, travel, World on 28 June 2013 by delclem
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, “the Austrian crown prince whose assassination triggered World War I, started a trip across the world in 1892. His newly published diary from the journey reveals a world of extremes, from island cannibals to skyscrapers.”>full text (c) SPIEGEL INT’L, 2013 Photo (c) DOROTHEUM, 2010
55th Venice Biennale
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Biennale, exhibition, Italy, review, Venice on 22 June 2013 by delclem
Model houses of Austrian officer Peter Fritz at the main pavilion in the Giardini. It’s Biennale time again in the historical lagoon city. >full text & more photos
(c) wieninternational.at 2013 >alternative text (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013
“In the Dark Depths of the Unconscious”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, exhibition, Poland, review, the Fantastic, Vienna, Visual Arts, Zdzisław Beksiński on 10 June 2013 by delclem
“Emaciated bodies, skeletons, phantom-like apparitions and post-apocalyptic landscapes – all of these are motifs that the Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005) captured on canvas. All of these paintings have something ephemeral, other-worldly, something difficult to capture. Even if you take a closer look it is difficult to get a clear idea of what you are seeing.” Exhibition to be seen at the Phantastenmuseum in Vienna until 22 June >review & photos
(c) WIENINTERNATIONAL.AT 2013
“The real Karl Marx”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags biography, Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx, Marxism, review on 6 June 2013 by delclem
“In many ways, Jonathan Sperber suggests, Marx was ‘a backward-looking figure,’ whose vision of the future was modeled on conditions quite different from any that prevail today (Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
>review (c) NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2013
International Exhibition Incident
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, controversy, De l'Allemagne, exhibition, France, Germany, Louvre, Madame de Stael, Nationalism, Paris, review on 30 April 2013 by delclem
New tensions between EU pillars Germany and France fought in the cultural field? De L’Allemagne, “an exhibition of art in the Louvre has provoked fury in Germany for portraying the country as a dark and dangerous neighbour – has it ignored key movements deliberately, or is it all a matter of taste?”
photo: detail from Max Beckmann’s The Hell of Birds (c) The Louvre
>full text (c) THE IRISH TIMES, 2013
“Berlin Exhibition on Judaism Hits a Nerve”
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Berlin, exhibition, Germany, Jewish Museum, Judaism, review on 7 April 2013 by delclem
“Bill Glucroft is not an expert on the Torah, Israeli politics or the Holocaust. But on Thursday afternoon he fielded questions on each of those subjects from visitors to the Jewish Museum here in the German capital as part of a new exhibition.
To critics of the show, called “The Whole Truth” and intended to demystify Jewish life for a curious but largely uninformed German public, it was neither the questions nor the answers that were controversial, but where Mr. Glucroft sat: in a glass box, like just another exhibit.”>full text & photo (c) NYT, 2013
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