Austria Has A Provocative Contemporary Art Festival, But Is Anyone Seeing It?

In far-right governed Austria, the Steirischer Herbst “appointed its first non-German-speaking director and is now redefining itself as an international art event. The Russian-born curator Ekaterina Degot, working with a collective of other exhibition makers, has used the historically loaded title ‘Volksfronten’ (People’s Fronts) for an exploration by more than 40 artists of what she describes in her catalog introduction as today’s ‘alarming déjà vus of the 1930s.'”

Article source here:Arts Journal