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Les Nabis from Hermitage Petersburg on display in full glory on the Amstel

by Madeleine Red
16 September 201311 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

In the main hall of the Hermitage Amsterdam, the music room of businessman and art collector Ivan Morozov has been recreated. The hall, where normally the top pieces of the exhibitions hang on the Amstel, now shows what the music room of Morozov's Moscow city palace looked like. With grand piano and all. But above all: with wall decorations by Maurice Denis, who was specially commissioned for this purpose. For once, these paintings have left the Hermitage so that St Petersburg can also work on a similar reconstruction. There is little chance of them leaving St Petersburg after that.

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How to choose from the profusion offered by the Tefaf

by Madeleine Red
18 March 201330 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Suppose you have a small capital in your pocket. And you go to the Tefaf for a day. It's a festive feeling: an art gift for yourself. But once inside, there's a good chance you'll be shocked. Because how to choose from 30,000 objects? In those 265 stands from renowned galleries from 20 countries: Argentina, United States, Canada, Italy, Japan? And which corner will you look in? Antiquities? Or modern, antiquarian, design? Will you go for a sculpture, a canvas, jewellery, chair or a book?

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Fiction in dance films, (how) does it work? Good question at festival Cinedans

by Fransien van der Putt
8 March 20138 July 2016
6 min read
DANS

Fransien van der Putt, together with choreographer and dance film-maker Angelika Oei, saw five new Dutch dance films during Cinedans. Some of the results were promising. The films all transcended the level of visual gimmick. In its place is a struggle with fiction and physical credibility.

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Peter the Great: the curious tsar is back in Amsterdam

by Madeleine Red
8 March 201329 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Netherlands-Russia year is kicking off and what better way to start than with an exhibition dedicated to the most famous Russian of all time? At

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'A lot of art is too much about pleasing'

by Daniel Bertina
11 February 20138 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL

It started with an email out of the blue. Artist Joncquil had Googled my website and was struck by the name. I myself had almost forgotten how I had ever come up with the name, Joy of Irony: a song by the legendary, highly underrated English noise/metal band Fudge Tunnel. Joncquil came to my site because of his expo at the time, Himmel und Joy. He had read some of my pieces and introduced himself. Maybe one day we could have coffee to talk a bit about art.

Thus it happened.

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Peter van Onna: 'Treaty of Utrecht is also topical now'

by Thea Derks
6 January 201329 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC

Three hundred years ago, the Treaty of Utrecht was signed, bringing an end to both the War of Spanish Succession, and the War of Queen Anne. Remarkably, this peace treaty was not negotiated on the battlefield, but at the negotiating table. It took a year and a half for the many parties to come to an agreement, and the treaty counts as the beginning of...

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Internet users can comment on plan to abolish CKV

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 October 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Minister Bijsterveld of OCW is going to ask the country for advice. A so-called internet consultation was launched this week on her ministry's intention to abolish Cultural and Artistic Education for Havo and VWO pupils. 'The Field' can now respond, so we suggest you make your views, and especially your substantive arguments known to the ministry, via this link:

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'Pearls' at the Leiden Cloth Hall is a boundless experience

by Maarten Baanders
21 September 20128 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

'Pearls' is an exhibition with the limitlessness, fantasy and dreamlike vistas that come with a fairy tale. Associations with the pearl roll in all directions. Those who wander around in 'Pearls' forget for a moment everything to do with sober everyday reality. Pearls appear everywhere. The works of art accompanying this exhibition are scattered among the fixed...

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Artists paint artists in 'We, the Artists'

by Daniel Bertina
15 September 201230 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL

Unruly Gallery, a tiny underground art gallery on Amsterdam's Cliffordstraat, presents the group exhibition We, the Artists. Featuring portraits of artists created by other artists. How self-referential do you want it to be? Very worthwhile nonetheless. Unruly Gallery is one of the few artist-run galleries in Amsterdam with a refreshing do-it-yourself attitude. The gallery was set up by Niels Meulman and Adele...

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Science shows: the story accompanying a work of art is more important than the art itself

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 December 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

It has finally been scientifically proven: a work of art does not stand alone. A work of art is only truly appreciated when the viewer is told that it is real art. British professor Martin Kemp conducted research with brain scans at Oxford University and provided proof that the way we look at art is "completely irrational". The research...

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Exhibition Sketches of Beauty sheds new light on metre-long sketch designs for 'Gouda Glasses'

by Madeleine Red
23 November 20118 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

The stained-glass windows of the Sint-Janskerk in Gouda, known as the Gouda Glasses for short, are famous abroad. Domestically, the colourful splendour and artistic value of the sometimes 20-metre-high windows is less well known. Even less known are the paper sketches for these windows, which have recently been restored. The exhibition 'Sketches of beauty', opened by Queen Beatrix, closes...

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Dancers of Busy Rocks combine rigour with lightness and humour in 'Studium'

by Maarten Baanders
16 April 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Springdance 2 — Studium by Busy Rocks - photo Teodora Mihai

It is nothing new that simple movements, close to the everyday, are given a place in dance performances. But the particular way they are constructed and highlighted in 'Studium' by Belgian group Busy Rocks makes you look at them with fresh wonder.
Three of the four dancers, darkly dressed, lie down on the floor against each other in carefully crafted poses. On this construction of bodies, a dancer, dressed bright white, takes her place in a horizontal position. The lighting makes the body lying above seem to float. The underlying figures push up the limbs in such a way that the white figure moves as if she is walking. The manipulation is done with great precision. Looking at it with tilted head, one sees perfectly natural steps.

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Shukshin's Stories: a 'gypsy boy-with-trane' painting by a grand master. #hf10

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 June 201030 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

The Russian soul. So there is something about that. And you get something from that when you see a Chekhov play (if done well), or read one of his short stories. Or when you read the works of Tolstoi, Dostoevsky or any other inhabitant of that vast nothingness east of Poland. Or seeing the paintings, which a few...

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