Women's World: Dealers, Divas and Curators Reconceptualize Vienna

Like a Habsburg eagle the ViennaFair, which ran Oct. 10-13, looks simultaneously towards the capitalist West (half its exhibitors come from Austria, Germany and Switzerland) and the post-Communist East (nearly two-fifths come from Central & Eastern Europe). The eastern lurch has long been sponsored by Erste Bank, who do business in the region, and was strengthened by the Fair's 2012 acquisition from Reed Exhibitions by two Russians, Sergey Skatershikov and Dmitry Axenov. Skatershikov, an art inv...