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What Happens to Jewellery Stolen From a Museum? The MAK Vienna Heist

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collage with the Van Cleef Arpels necklace stolen from the Museum Mak in Vienna

Last Thursday, two men did something that sounds more Netflix than Vienna. They bought ordinary entrance tickets to the MAK, walked into Glanzstücke, the museum’s Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition, smashed a display case with a hammer and left with one of the most extraordinary diamond necklaces of the 20th century. No masks. Middle of … Read more

Notorious Women #1: Sabine Wiedenhofer at Galerie Kovacek If Walls Could Talk.

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The awarded Austrian artist Sabine Wiedenhofer, whose work "If Walls Could Talk" is at Galerie Kovacek, photographed in front of one of her paintings

Welcome to our first article from the series Notorious Women, that will bring you, once a month, the profile of extraordinary women from all walks of life. We are honoured to start Notorious Women with Austrian artist Sabine Wiedenhofer, who is exhibiting her latest work, “If Walls Could Talk“, at Galerie Kovacek contemporary. Sabine Wiedenhofer … Read more