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Art in Vienna
  • Escape to Vienna: On creating in foreign lands
    by Herb Ranharter
    Among all this glut of artwork your work will be analyzed, improved, derided, perhaps loved or hated; but it will not be ignored, no matter what.

  • Vienna in Focus: A Visit with Michael Fuchs
    by Herb Ranharter
    Just outside of Vienna, going west along the Danube, lies the town of Klosterneuburg. This is where the Michael Fuchs studio is. Art2u News Online contributing editor Herb Ranharter has returned to Austria, and paid a visit to Michael Fuchs.

  • Vienna in Focus:: Michael Fuchs at 50: A Retrospective
    by Herb Ranharter
    A follow up on a season of Vernissage (gallery openings) in Vienna and surrounding areas: Art is afoot, everywhere. As the temperature drops from 30+ deg. to 10 deg. and less, the culture vanishes into the indoors, to delight on the visual image. Society responds to the art and parties around the rich displays.

  • Vienna in Focus: Friedensreich Hundertwasser and Architecture in Vienna: Architecture and the Creative Process
    by Herb Ranharter

  • Vienna in Focus: Gustav Klimt's Last Studio
    by Herb Ranharter
    ...(T)he city of Vienna ... cashes in on a Klimt bonanza of biblical proportions. Klimt's work has become the base for an industry about town as lucrative as the Mozart-based activities all over the region. One can hardly go anywhere near the city core without drowning in Mozart, Beethoven, Schiele or Klimt.

  • Franz Xaver Messerschmidt: Artist/Sculptor
    commentary by Herb Ranharter

  • From Vienna to Cesky Krumlov to Tulln: A quest for the genius of Egon Schiele, Part 1
    Photographs and Commentary by Herb Ranharter
    "The Schiele Museum in Cesky Krumlov is easily found by hanging a right at the main square.... (Y)ou really can't miss it, that is if you can pry yourself loose from the enchantment of the village itself ... the smells of restaurants and cafes luring you to succumb and lose your purpose."

  • From Vienna to Cesky Krumlov to Tulln: A quest for the genius of Egon Schiele, Part 2
    Photographs and Commentary by Herb Ranharter
    "I looked about town to see what is in my immediate vicinity. The big billing goes to the Schiele collection in the new Leopold Museum in the equally new Museum Quarters near the Vienna Ringstrasze at the foot of Mariahilferstrasze."

  • From Vienna to Cesky Krumlov to Tulln: A quest for the genius of Egon Schiele, Part 3
    Photographs and Commentary by Herb Ranharter
    "The museum is an emulation of the jail in Neulengbach where Schiele was incarcerated for lewd behavior, and the cells now house more than 100 of his original drawings."

  • Art in Vienna: In the Studio with Peter Newrkla
    Photographs and Commentary by Herb Ranharter
    "It isn't often that one finds a kindred spirit; it is a rare and special thing. Just as I am pulling up tent in Austria I stumbled upon a childhood friend whom I hadn't seen in at least 40 years.... He works in oil painting, I work in pen and ink and printmaking; our ideas match in astounding similarity yet our results are deliciously different."
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Books, Reviews, Author Interviews Commentary
  • Perspective: Next Trip to Nicaragua, Someone Else Can Drive
    by Erik Shiozaki
    In the 1990's, Erik and I shared an art studio in Berkeley, California. At that time, he was an independent filmmaker and photographer. Erik is currenty the owner/operator of Vaya Con Silla de Ruedas, a paratransit tour business in Costa Rica. Find out what happened in 2007 when he took his daughter and some friends to Nicaragua. If you were thinking of going there, his experience could put a chill on your travel plans. --Roxane Gilbert, publisher

  • Once-In-A--Moon Turning Wheel of Golden Dharma:
    Taradhatu Peace Pilgrimage, 2001
    by Leonora Orr
    It was all so beautiful and artfully orchestrated with sound intention, flexibility, joy and wonder at the streaming miracle of it all, particularly in contrast to other "Realities" of war and conflict in Afghanistan.

  • Sensation: A Rational View
    by Camille Chang
    ...Art is the artist's attempt to relate his message to the world and is, at best, a crude way to represent a quality by using a quantity. So, we have the case of "Sensation," an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art....

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Printmaking: The Collaborative Process
  • 'Non-Toxic' Printmaking Resistance/Renaissance
    by Keith Howard
    "The alchemy and total disdain for personal health and environmental consciousness has been replaced by the next generation of Non-Toxic Printmakers who want to become part of printmaking history.... They want to clean up printmaking and make it a more vital art form which is totally unencumbered by the shackles of its inherited toxic history."

  • Collaboration / Editioning: An Interview with Ruth Fine
    by Sandy Walker
    Ruth Fine is a printmaker and the curator of modern prints and drawings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. She discusses the collaborative role of the printer as it relates to the issue of crediting the printer as a contributor to the aesthetic worth of the fine art print.

  • It's a Collaboration: An Interview with Sheila Marbain
    by Sandy Walker
    In 1996, I was introducted to Sheila Marbain.... Little did I know at the time that I was being introduced to one of the rare and secret treasures of the art world.

  • Focus on a Printmaker: An Interview with Linda Lee Boyd
    by Benny Alba
    "Linda is a very fine artist whose pieces are quiet, like herself, and yet a strong, intense energy is there below the placid surface." Dan Robeski, president, California Society of Printmakers

  • The Hidden Experience: An Interview with David Bonetti
    by Sandy Walker
    Straight talk about printmaking and the state of the arts in San Francisco in a conversation between artist/writer Sandy Walker and David Bonetti, the art critic for the San Francisco Examiner.

  • The Process & The Product: An Interview with Alex Katz
    by Sandy Walker
    Internationally recognized artist Alex Katz discusses the process of printmaking as a collaborative effort between artist and master printer

  • The End Result: An Interview with Master Printer Doris Simmelink
    by Sandy Walker
    Master Printer Doris Simmelink has worked extensively with artist Alex Katz. She talks about the fun and the challenge of employing printmaking technique to reflect the artist's sensibility.
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