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The Helnwein exhibition sets a museum visitor record. Stella Rollig, the director, states: "If anyone from Austrian Fine Art of the last fifty years could be called a star, then there is only one person who meets all the criteria: Gottfried Helnwein"

"Gottfried Helnwein's latest exhibition, "Face It", is the artist's first show in his native Austria since 1985. A retrospective of 40 works from the 1970s to the present, it is more shocking than the Royal Academy's infamous "Sensation" of 1997. Helnwein aims to disturb not with, say, an elephant-dung Madonna, as Chris Ofili did then, but with a far more controversial Virgin. Of all his paintings, the most disturbing is Epiphany (1996), for which he dips into our collective memory of Christianity's most famous birth. This Austrian Catholic Nativity scene has no magi bearing gifts. Madonna and child are encircled by five respectful Waffen SS officers palpably in awe of the idealised, kitsch-blonde Virgin. The Christ toddler, who stands on Mary's lap, stares defiantly out of the canvas. Helnwein's baby Jesus is Adolf Hitler."

Choreographer: Johann Kresnik

"Il était une fois Walt Disney" is an exhibition that examines Art in relation to Walt Disney. The sources of inspiration for the Disney studios and Disney Recycled by Contemporary Art. Curator Bruno Girveau states: "Pop Art made Mickey and Donald into icons, and artists continue to be inspired by Disney’s legacy today. This section shows some thirty works based on Disney characters, created by a diverse group of modern and contemporary artists that includes Gary Baseman, Christian Boltanski, Gottfried Helnwein, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. As French painter Robert Combas said in 1977, “Mickey is no longer Walt’s property, he belongs to us all.”

The film is shown on German, Austrian and Swiss Television, channel 3Sat

For the past twenty-four years the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy Foundation, in association with the UCLA Film and Television Archive, has presented a series of film programs featuring the outstanding documentaries of the previous year. The film, NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT, was considered by the Academy’s Documentary Screening Committee to be one of the outstanding documentaries of 2004. It is our wish to include a screening of "Ninth November Night" in this prestigious series on the evening of Wednesday, November 30, 2005.

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Gottfried Helnwein is best man and Hamish Bowles reports exclusively about this event in VOGUE, March 2006.

Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times writes: "Gottfried Helnwein's wondrous staging of "Der Rosenkavalier" is eccentric and anachronistic — yet utterly faithful to its spirit. The thing you should know about this "Rosenkavalier" is that it is terrific. Helnwein's vision of "Rosenkavalier" is monochromatic and a riot of color. It is updated but couldn't be more 18th century. And none of those opposites contradicts."

The Visions Of Lewis Carroll, consists of four short films, followed by a feature length film.

The film, NINTH NOVEMBER NIGHT by Henning Lohner, was considered by the Academy’s Documentary Screening Committee to be one of the outstanding documentaries of 2004.