Natural History Museum [ENA] “Clothes of the Millennia – Inspiration for Today” at the NHM Vienna is a model example of how a museum can translate archaeological knowledge into a vivid, contemporary aesthetic experience, without sacrificing scholarly precision. Framed as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Natural History Museum, the historical fashion show turned the Lower Dome Hall into a living timeline, in which seven thousand years of textile history walked past the audience in the form of 55 models.   [Full story...]

Vienna State Opera [ENA] Animal Farm at the world famous Wiener Staatsoper is one of those most rare operatic evenings that manages to be both intellectually acute and immediately theatrical. Alexander Raskatov’s adaptation of Orwell’s dystopian classic does not merely retell a familiar story of revolt and betrayal; it turns that story into an unsettlingly vivid and impressive stage experience.   [Full story...]