The rise of mass-market printing in the 19th century transformed both the information industry and society: books, newspapers, and magazines became mass media, and a host of new professions related to graphic design, photography, and journalism emerged. Art responded to these changes by turning toward abstraction, as photography and print media took over the role of documentation. In the 20th century, the relationship between media and art evolved into a critical dialogue. The Dadaists responded to the propaganda of totalitarian regimes, the postwar “New Realists” reflected on consumerism, and during the Bauhaus period, art and media even collaborated on utopian visions of modern society. From the 1960s onward, the “open form” (opera aperta) gained prominence, followed later by feminist, gender, and postcolonial discourses. In the era of globalization and the decline of print media, critical engagement with media reality is key for art, often accompanied by a sense of melancholy over the end of paper. The collection of Annette and Peter Nobel, assembled since the 1980s, charts this dialogue between art and print through more than 2,000 works. The exhibition HIT BY NEWS, curated by Christoph Doswald, presents a selection from this collection and offers a critical perspective on how media shape our society—in the past, present, and future. Datum und Uhrzeit Tue—Sun 11:00—19:00