The University of New Orleans International Summer School in Innsbruck, Austria celebrated 40 years in the Alpine city during its grand opening on June 28, 2015. The U.S. Ambassador to Austria, Alexa Wesner, joined dignitaries from Innsbruck and New Orleans.
 

170 guests joined the opening ceremony of Habsburg Splendor at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH). The director of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) Sabine Haag attended the opening alongside MFAH director Gary Tinterow and a “21st century Habsburg”, Maria-Anna Galitzine, who happens to call Houston her home.

Theaters in Silver Spring, MD and New York City began two week showings of the legendary movie The Third Man on June 26. You can still see the movie in Silver Spring (until July 3), New York City (until July 9), and Los Angeles (on July 3).

Our Spring Edition of the Austrian Information Zine is out! This issue is focusing on gender issues and women in Austrian politics, from the landmark achievement of women’s suffrage after World War I to the developments in gender policy over the past decades. 

Mark Damisch has toured more than 40 countries, including Japan, Israel, Australia. He has performed at the Shuvalov Palace in St. Petersburg; in Klin, at Tchaikovsky’s House; in Iskra, at the New Jerusalem Monastery; in Warsaw, at the Museum of Jan Paderewski; and in Kyiv, Ukraine, at the National Philharmonic Hall to raise funds for local orphanages.