The most requested articles concerning cultural themes like art in 2020

Generated on 18 December 2020. Statistics from 1 January until 17 December 2020 by Google Analytics.

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Fashionoffice 2020 year reviews via statistical data started with the overall counting of the three best performing articles, followed by a ranking of the ten most requested articles with relation to the pandemic. Now, the next statistical review shows the highest ranking articles about culture, art with an artist on top whose activities in Vienna and Bristol were dedicated to love and against racism.

1. Marc Quinn's same-sex sculpture for Vienna is a memorial for victims of the Nazi era, against hate, violence, homophobia and a call to show love
The top-ranking of artist Marc Quinn's work is a coincidence how only fate can arrange. On 1 July 2020, the City of Vienna presented Marc Quinn's draft of a sculpture for the memorial for homosexual men and women who were victims of the persecution in the Nazi era. The artwork for the Resselpark in the 4th district of Vienna was selected by a jury on 29 June 2020. The article received average attention in the first days when uploaded but peaked around two weeks later on 17 July after Marc Quinn's Black Lives Matter protester statue was de-installed on 16 July only one day after it was installed without permission.

2. Leopold Museum Vienna 'Imagine Tomorrow' (20 Feb - 31 Aug 2020) explores the impact of Egon Schiele on artist and ecological forethinker Friedensreich Hundertwasser
On the 2nd place, two prominent artists from Austria - Egon Schiele and Friedensreich Hundertwasser - whose works have changed the perception of self-expression, sexuality through portraits and the role of art for climate activism.

3. Swarovski's 'Vienna Opera Ball' tiara by Christian Lacroix staged by artist Philipp Fürhofer after original Mozart 'The Magic Flute' designs and equipped with day & night surprise mirror
On the 3rd place, the exhibition of Swarovski tiaras created through the years by Christian Lacroix, Karl Lagerfeld,... for the Vienna Opera Ball.

4. MAK Museum of Applied Arts Vienna throws light on 'Women Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte' at upcoming exhibition (27 May until 20 September)
2020 was the year of postponed openings and events! One of the exhibitions was about female artists of the Wiener Werkstätte. The exhibition is postponed to 2021.

5. Highlights of Wiener Festwochen (15 May - 21 June) explore the current political and environmental situations of our world by tracing the history of the last hundred years
The Wiener Festwochen are highlights of the city's annual culture programme. This year, the Viennese multidisciplinary festival with strong focus on theatre, performance happened in great parts digitally. The opening speech was streamed live from the Burgtheater.

6. Video series presents Tiberius designer Marcos Valenzuela working with Austrian artists from music and theatre stage
The music and performing arts scene was hit hard by the pandemic. Vienna-based designer Marcos Valenzuela teamed up with musicians, opera singers and provided artist portraits from the angle of a couturier.

7. MQ Vienna Fashion Week opens with special staging under the direction of fashion and culture projects producer Adia Trischler on 7 September
Vienna Fashion Week had luck this year! It happened in a lockdown-free time slot!

8. Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum explores in new exhibition the regional heritage of traditional clothing from various perspectives such as the definition of gender
The exhibition of a new research on traditional Austrian clothing was opened, closed, and extended. The findings of the research will last.

9. Art, culture, and fashion seen from a global perspective by Nigerian-born British fashion designer Duro Olowu at the exhibition 'Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago' at MCA Chicago
Virtual gallery tours, video introductions by curators into exhibitions became a new normal in 2020. MCA Chicago publishes a video introduction by Duro Olowu speaking about fashion, museum interventions and collecting art.

10. New opening dates of arts & crafts, fashion, furniture,... exhibitions at MAK Vienna
Never before, Fashion.at (since 1996) has added so many annotations concerning postponed dates to older articles. At this article, a summary of new opening dates for three exhibitions such 'Show Off. Austrian Fashion Design' was published.

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