In the Empire, a man always writes the same book and others wear the same shirt

We were deep in Amsterdam's canal belt for a while. After all, prominent resident of this city Rudi Fuchs was presented with a new booklet, written by himself together in the pages of De Groene Amsterdammer. This weekly magazine, by all accounts the oldest in the country, hosts the art connoisseur and former museum director in its pages. On it, he stomach writing about works of art that inspire him, about how beautiful, how technically good or at least remarkable it is put together, that kind of...