Abstract

Another spectre is haunting Europe and has even made it to Manhattan. Seventy years after his assassination on a sultry afternoon in Sarajevo, his Excellency the Archduke Franz Ferdinand has returned and has brought with him a danse macabre, a multinational celebration of a long-gone multinational empire. First sighted in Venice in die Palazzo Grassi in die summer of 1984, he reappeared quickly in an old haunt, die Künsderhaus in Vienna and dien moved on to conquer die world: die Centre Pompidou in Paris and now die Museum of Modern An in New York.

As die end of die century approaches, the fin-de-siècle is rediscovered.