Inch per inch, Vienna possesses arguably the world’s densest collection of landmarks, so culturally and aesthetically rich is the city core that you could hardly toss a pebble without it bouncing off ...

The Essl Collection is going on a permanent loan to the Albertina Museum in Vienna until at least 2044, the collection’s owners Karlheinz Essl and Hans Peter Haselsteiner announced yesterday, together ...

I visited Vienna in October 2004 and at the time the Albertina had an exhibition of Michelangelo sketches (which was wonderful) but when I asked a security guard how to get to the Durer permanent ...

No artist in the history of New York City quite exemplifies the grit and determination of the 1980s quite like Jean-Michel Basquiat. In a first for Austrian audiences, Basquiat’s legacy is being given ...

Klaus Albrecht Schröder, director of the Albertina in Vienna, Austria (or should we say the Albertinas, ever since the opening of a space devoted to modern art in a nearby building?), has made his ...

Drowning Girl, 1963, Oil and acrylic on canvas; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Philip Johnson Fund (by exchange) and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bagley Wright © Estate ...

Mention the name Albertina in New York or Paris or, for that matter, in Vienna -- and you might get a flicker of recognition, but little more. Although this tradition-bound Viennese institution houses ...

The art of the Russian avant-garde numbers among the most diverse and radical chapters of modernism. At no other point in the history of art did artistic schools and artists’ associations emerge at ...