Is this a courtly drama or a parody of one? In his opera "Flavio", George Frideric Handel tells a story of love, jealousy, ambition and wounded pride at the court of the King of the Lombards in the 9th century.

Every year the excitement over the country's “white strips of snow” ramps up in the media. Last year a satirical broadcast on the "Lake Neusiedl Desert" caused a wave of cancellations there. Tourism and climate change are two controversial topics everybody is talking about.

Hechenblaikner gives a guided tour of the exhibition "Toourism" in a conversation with an Az W guide, while referencing his archive of photographs of contemporary Alpine tourism: an expansive, romantic rural Alpine setting for an après-ski culture that has distorted tradition beyond recognition while also leaving scars in the landscape. It is time to think about a new kind of tourism.

What's it like growing up in the city? I like taking taxis and the underground, I want to ring other people's doorbells and go through every door, I want to get on every moped and say hello to the people I choose. It's often loud in the city, I prefer to be loud myself and sometimes I'm very quiet and watch the ducks.

By now, everybody agrees that it makes sense to have greenery in the city, because it cools and cleans the air while also being pleasant to look at. But this wasn’t always the consensus. Fifty years ago, Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s ideas were ridiculed. We take a look at some of the projects in the permanent collection at the Architekturzentrum Wien and then set off in search of green oases in Vienna by underground and on foot.

The new project by Alexandra Bachzetsis is a profound and lustful exploration by the performer of her biography as a dancer, choreographer and artist.