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Vienna Austria's annual calendar of events is filled with festivals, exhibitions, performances, sports, culinary and cultural things to see and do this year.
From Erotica to Art Nouveau
Where: the BA-CA Kunstforum, Freyung 8, 1st district
Dates: until July 22
Times: 10 am to 7 pm daily, Friday 10 am to 9 pm
Things to see: Masterpieces by 35 artists from the late-19th century to today explore sensuality, seduction, temptation and desire. The exhibition of eroticism in modern art features works by Dalí, Degas, Duchamp, Gauguin, Giacometti, Klimt, Magritte, Picasso, Renoir, Rodin, Schiele and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Koloman Moser Exhibition
Where: Leopold Museum, MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, 7th district
Dates: May 25 to September 10
Times: 10 am to 6 pm daily, Thursday 10 am to 9 pm
Things to see: The first exhibition of work by one of the co-founders of the Wiener Werksätte and one of the pioneers of the Jugendstil movement.
Vienna Spring Festival
Dates: April 10 to May 5
Performances to hear: Concerts by Mariss Jansons, Fabio Luisi, Myung-Whun Chung, Elina Garanca, Maxim Vengerov and Erika Pluhar.
Vienna Festival International Music Festival
Where: Konzerthaus
Dates: May 5 to June 19
Concerts to see and hear: Twentieth-century classical music by composers from Claude Debussy and Alban Berg to Olivier Messiaen interpreted by Gidon Kremer, Thomas Hampson and Rolando Villazón.
Viennafair Art Fair
Where: Vienna Trade Fair Center, Messezentrum, 2nd district
Dates: April 26 to 29
Things to see: Contemporary Central European art by young artists and international stars and contemporary art from Central and Southeastern Europe.
Night Skating
Where: Assemble at Heldenplatz, 1st district
Dates: May to September on Friday nights
Life Ball
Where: City Hall and City Hall Square, 1st district
Date: May 26, 2007
Things to see and do: Austria's flamboyant AIDS charity event features outrageous costumes, dancing and celebrities like Sharon Stone, Catherine Deneuve and Naomi Campbell.
Riverside in the City
Where: walkways along the Danube Canal, the “Little Danube”
Dates: all summer
Things to see and do: For swimming, go to the Badeschiff, a former Danube barge with a pool and sun deck, moored between Schwedenplatz and the Urania. For food and beach volleyball visit the riverfront Summerstage, upstream by the Rossauer Lände subway station. For cool drinks, chill out at the Strandbar (Beach Bar) Herrmann, at the Urania, a public observatory opened in 1910. Adria Wien has a garden grill.
Summer at Vienna's MuseumsQuartier (MQ)
Where: MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1, 7th district
Dates: June 20 to 24 (the 7 festival for fashion, music & photography), July 12 to August 12 (ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival)
Things to see and do: Rent boules, enjoy model car racing, take guided tours of the Leopold Museum (Schiele), the Museum of Modern Art and the Kunsthalle, play open-air chess, watch backgammon tournaments, enjoy weekend DJ events, readings, and children's activities.
Kokoschka Exhibition
Where: The Albertina, Albertinaplatz 1, 1st district
Dates: September 7, 2007 to January 6, 2008
Times: 10 am to 6 pm daily, Wednesday 10 am to 9 pm
Things to see: View major late works by Oskar Kokoschka from his creative periods in exile in Prague and England. Admire works by the Master of Austrian Modernism in Switzerland, where he began painting landscapes, portraits and large floral watercolors in 1953.
Vienna & Wine
Dates: October 1 to November 30
Things to see and do: Discover typical Viennese white wines, like Riesling, Weissburgunder and Grüner Veltliner and red wines like Zweigelt and Blauburgunder at tastings. Take guided tours of vineyards and cellars of 320 local vintners inside the city limits. Enter the competition with 1,000 bottles of Viennese wine as a first prize and 10,000 instant wins.
The Late Titian Exhibition
Where: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Maria Theresienplatz, 1st district
Dates: October 18, 2007 to January 6, 2008
Times: Tuesday to Sunday 10 am to 6 pm, Thursday 10 am to 9 pm 10 am to 6 pm daily, Thursday 10 am to 9 pm
Things to see: View the Venetian Renaissance master artist's late works, painted for European princes and the Pope.
Vienna – Paris: Van Gogh, Cézanne and Austrian Modernism
Where: Lower Belvedere Palace and Orangery, Rennweg 4, 3rd district
Dates: October 3, 2007 to January 13, 2008
Times: Daily 10 am to 6 pm
Things to see: View 250 works by Cézanne, Gauguin, Klimt, Kokoschka and Van Gogh, depicting modernism as a pan-European project.
The Magic of Advent and the New Year's Trail
Where: Around City Hall
Dates: November 17 to December 24 and December 31 (New Year's Eve)
Things to see: Enjoy Christmas markets during Advent. On New Year's Eve, a dozen stages in downtown Vienna offer shows, waltzes, operetta, rock and folk music. More than 80 booths sell sparkling wine and foods from around the world.
More things to see and do in Austria:
Vienna Choir Boys Perform Concerts Christmas and Year-Round
New Walking Tour, Wine Center, Hotels and Spa Open in Austria
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