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...video-sharing websites. At any rate, it suffices to say that Snow’s work is not as relevant as Goldin’s was in her time. History, as it is wont to do, has repeated itself. In an interview for an exhibit of his photos at Austrian museum the Kunsthalle Wien, Snow’s contemporary and friend, Ryan McGinley, places the recurrence of these contemporary art themes into context. “When you live in downtown Manhattan each generation of kids that are involved in that culture seem to be all doing the same thing...
European counterterrorism officials were not exactly surprised by news this week that Islamist radicals in north Africa have kidnapped two Austrian tourists, but they are concerned. Their monitoring over recent months has noted increasing jihadist calls to abduct foreigners as part of the wider surge of terrorist activity in the region. Some fear a spate of politically motivated kidnapping could be in the offing...
...messages that still haven't been definitively authenticated - an audio file delivered to a specialized U.S. intelligence website, and a written communiqué to an Algerian daily - the Algerian group al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility this week for kidnapping two Austrian tourists on Feb. 22. A man identifying himself as an AQIM spokesman said the couple - identified by Austrian media as Andrea Kloiber, 43, and Wolfgang Ebner, 51 - were in good condition, but warned that any armed attempt to free the captives would gravely imperil their lives...
Look up Adolf Hitler in Wikipedia and you’ll learn that he was “an Austrian who led the National Socialist German Workers Party,” which “emphasised nationalism and antisemitism and murdered many of its opponents to ensure success.” Look up the Holocaust: “the term used to describe the killing of approximately six million European Jews during World War II.”So it is that, on a website that serves as a central information source for our era, one of history?...
...Mozart of Pickpockets, about two doofus criminals who adopt an immigrant waif, was outshone by a droll Dutch gem, Tanghi Argentini, and a Danish hospital weepie, At Night. In a year when the best foreign-language films weren't even nominated, the Oscar went to The Counterfeiters, an Austrian drama about (really?) the Holocaust. Points to it, though, for lacing its noble sentiment with the bleak cynicism of a forger who remains devoted to his craft under the worst circumstances. In Feature Documentary, a strong category this year, the Guantanamo exposé, Taxi to the Dark Side, beat...