NewsRestitution
Austria promises to return ancient artefacts to Russia that were taken as war trophies
An Austrian army officer took the 2,000-year-old objects from a war-damaged museum in the port of Temryuk at the end of the Second World War
ReviewBook Shorts
Thomas Bernhard’s Old Masters as a graphic novel
The Austrian writer’s bilious attacks are neutralised by the cartoons
NewsContemporary art
Curator will plant 299 trees in Austrian football stadium in statement against climate change
Klaus Littmann was inspired by a dystopian drawing created more than 30 years ago
NewsVienna
Albertina Museum director defends landmark gift of Essl collection
Klaus Albrecht Schröder says contemporary art acquisitions, criticised by Austrian Court of Audit, will fill a gap in country’s public museums
NewsAustria
Austria returns wrong Klimt to wrong family
Painting of apple trees is pulled from exhibition after admission that its restitution was a mistake
ReviewBooks
The influence of Klimt in Central European art after the First World War
The adaptations and expansions of the Austrian painter in the nations of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire
NewsVienna
Austrian culture minister Gernot Blümel ‘is a no-show’, claims opposition
Austrian People’s Party politician has refused to schedule parliamentary culture committee meetings and has overseen a decline in the culture budget
PreviewExhibitions
Niko Pirosmani: the ‘vagabond’ who inspired the Russian avant-garde
The self-taught artist, whose work commands surprisingly high prices at auction, is the subject of an exhibition at Vienna's Albertina museum
PreviewArt market
Vienna Contemporary here to stay with decade-long venue booking
The contemporary art fair, now in its third year, made its mark at Vienna's Marx Halle
ReviewBooks
Pull up a pew: vast volume surveys church cabinetmaking in 17th- and 18th-century Austria
Illuminating historical overviews and a mass of documentary research covers an under-studied subject
NewsPolitics
Plant from Las Vegas gunman’s garden is at the centre of anti-gun exhibition in New York
The Austrian artist Martin Roth says the aim is to create a space to discuss violence in the US and help visitors, including school children, take action