David Mathews
David Mathews is an illustrator and animator from Delhi, based in Vienna.
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Culture Art | November
An Old Master Comes to Town The KHM journeys into the quotidian magnificence of Pieter Bruegel the Elder The works of Flemish renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder have an ineffable quality, giving them an allure that has only grown over time. As detailed in The Mill and the Cross by Michael Francis Gibson, the […]
Raw art From Crazy and Untrained Minds at Museum Gugging
Art brut and its origins are laid bare at Museum Gugging.
Amongst the many startling visions on display at the Museum Gugging is an unassuming pencil sketch of a man dressed in a mundane suit, sh...
Albertina Exhibition Proves That Egon Schiele’s Drawings are as Good as hi...
The Albertina displays a different view of Egon Schiele's oeuvre.
The cultural landscape of Vienna is indelibly marked by the work of Egon Schiele, and the superb collection of his paintings at t...
Indulge Your Macabre Curiosity at the Narrenturm’s Sensational Medical Mus...
The world’s first psychiatric clinic lives on as the pathological-anatomical museum.
Hidden away in a corner of the Altes AKH (Vienna’s former general hospital), the Narrenturm (Tower of Fools) i...
Werner Herzog Retrospective at Filmarchiv Austria
Iconic and iconoclastic, the famous German director is celebrated in a retrospective at the Austrian Film Archive
Vienna’s Filmarchiv Austria currently has the distinction of hosting the first trul...
On Screen: The Red Turtle
Having garnered a number of awards at 2016 film festivals, including the Prix spĂ©cial « Un Certain Regard » at Cannes, Studio Ghibli’s The Red Turtle is due for general release in 2017. In the meantime, Vienna’s animated-film enthusiasts can view a one-off screening at the Filmcasino on January 14th. A new film from Studio Ghibli […]
On Display: The Future Has Arrived
At the Kunsthalle, The Promise of Total Automation imagines the shape of things to come An intriguing attempt to parse the possible futures headed our way, The Promise of Total Automation at the Kunsthalle examines the implications of our age of change. It’s what the curators call “the allure of an automated life” that is […]
On Stage: The Misunderstanding
A searing and original production of Camus’ absurdist drama, tackling notions of alienation and isolation Theater-goers, rejoice! One of Vienna’s eminent theatrical institutions, the Volkstheater, is now bringing Austrian theater to an international audience. The first fruits of this endeavor can be seen in the The Misunderstanding, an extraordinary meld of puppetry and theater. Penned […]
