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A new Israeli production for the occasion of Tel Aviv's 100th anniversary. "The Child Dreams", is based on the play of Hanoch Levin, the most important Israeli playwrite. Levin's plays have been performed in Germany, France, and many other places all around the world. The Child Dreams is one of the most important, powerful and inspiring plays ever written in Israel. The music is composed by Gil Shohat and directed by Omri Nitzan, artistic director of the Cameri Theatre.
The coductor is maestro Asher Fisch, the music director of the Israeli Opera. ...

Inspired by Gottfried Helnwein's Installation "Fall of the Angels" (1999), Spanish classical composer Juan J. Colomer decided to create an oratorio based on these images. Helnwein and Colomer agreed to collaborate on a multi-media art-project. ...

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Renowned Austrian-born artist, Gottfried Helnwein has committed himself and his art to reminding the world of the Holocaust. His exhibit, Ninth November Night, consists of 20 large panels of children's portraits displayed in commemoration of Kristallnacht. "Ninth November Night" was originally displayed in 1988 in Cologne, Germany. Days into the exhibit, the paintings were vandalized by neo-Nazis.
This exhibit will have its American premiere in Philadelphia in November, 2008 ...

Von 21. Oktober 2008 bis 4. Februar 2009 setzt die Albertina die Ausstellungsserie fort, die sie im Vorjahr begonnen hat. Unter dem Titel „Kunst nach 1970.II Aus der Albertina“ werden rund 150 Werken präsentiert, die einen Einblick in ihre große Sammlung an Gegenwartskunst der Albertina geben. In diesem Jahr wird besonders Augenmerk auf die österreichischen Künstler gelegt. ...

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Some might think that Los Angeles - its unrelenting sun, its one-step-away-from-reality perch -- is an incongruous place for someone like Helnwein. What he creates, regardless the medium - watercolor, oil, photography, performance art, sculpture - is a thorny psychological excursion into our sublimated self, our obscured corners and dark humors. His explorations into war crimes, Catholicism, disfigurement and the Holocaust are both unflinching and surgical. His work is in museum collections around the world, including those of LACMA and the Smithsonian, and critics have labeled it grotesque, fearless, disturbing and "veer[ing] dangerously close to offensive." People are surprised, he says, when they discern that he doesn't "seem insane." ...

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