Xenia Hausner: Lucky Break
Rainer Metzger and Katharina Sykora
A new book on Xenia Hausner, the artist who is a leading figure in Vienna’s hugely influential realist movement.

Hausner’s use of bold color and dramatic lighting—the product of her career as a set designer—offer as much insight into the...

Chet Baker was twenty-one when Charlie Parker discovered him and introduced him to such stars as Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan. It was the beginning of a meteoric rise to fame. Within a year, his melancholy, seductively elegant trumpet solos and his silken voice had made him the epitome of "West Coast cool jazz," which expressed a whole generation’s attitude to life.