NewsDiscoveries
Like ‘Tutankhamun’s tomb’: first look inside emperor's sepulchre in 500 years reveals magnificent treasures
Discovery in Vienna's St Stephen's cathedral was made with photographs taken through a small hole in the marble
NewsAccessibility
How to make museums more accessible for disabled people? Ask them
Research groups have designed new technologies and initiatives for the V&A, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza
ReviewExhibition catalogues
Vienna museum's Caravaggio and Bernini catalogue presents the artist's studio as a theatrical site
Exhibition at Kunsthistorisches on the two Baroque heavyweights helps to clarify the relationship between Roman painting and sculpture of the period
PreviewExhibitions
Caravaggio and Bernini show promises to be about more than just its titular #barockstars
Exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum will highlight the multiple trends and rich aesthetics of early Baroque art in Rome
NewsAppointments & departures
Uffizi's Eike Schmidt reveals why he cancelled move to Kunsthistorisches Museum at the eleventh hour
Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government
NewsAppointments
Uffizi’s Eike Schmidt cancels move to Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Move comes just one month before the German art historian was due to take the reins of the prestigious museum
ReviewBook Shorts
Thomas Bernhard’s Old Masters as a graphic novel
The Austrian writer’s bilious attacks are neutralised by the cartoons
ReviewBooks
Bruegel: great research, great exhibition—shame about the catalogue
The Kunsthistorisches's Bruegel exhibition catalogue fails to include any scholarly information
PreviewExhibitions
The music of Mark Rothko finally sounds in the land of Mozart
First exhibition in Austria reveals Abstract Expressionist’s identification with the work of the Old Masters
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in Vienna this weekend
From a busy Bruegel blockbuster to a whimsical Wes Anderson world conjured from the Kunsthistorisches Museum archives
PreviewExhibitions
Largest ever exhibition on Pieter Bruegel the Elder opens in Vienna
Show at the Kunsthistorisches Museum unites more than three-quarters of the artist's paintings
PreviewExhibitions
Museums pay tribute to Vienna’s visionary voyeurs, Klimt and Schiele, on 100th anniversary of their deaths
The artists are the subject of exhibitions across the Austrian capital—and beyond
BlogIn the frame
Hollywood comes to Vienna: Wes Anderson's pick of the Kunsthistorisches Museum
ReviewExhibitions
‘Everything refers to everything else’: Vienna exhibitions reveal impact of other artists on Raphael and Rubens
Concurrent surveys in Austrian capital also show how travel inspired the Old Masters
News
How Uffizi 'super-director' Eike Schmidt transformed Florence's tourist magnet
The museum's first foreign leader is halfway through his tenure and heading to Vienna in 2019
NewsAppointments & departures
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt to lead Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum
German-born sculpture specialist was first non-Italian to lead prestigious Florentine institution