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Wereldberoemd ‘broddelwerk’ – waarom Monets waterlelies en blauweregens nog steeds zo bijzonder zijn

Vroeger vond men het drie keer niks, tegenwoordig zijn de schilderijen van waterlelies en blauweregens de beroemdste doeken van de Franse schilder Claude Monet. We bezochten zijn tuinen in Giverny en keken even door de ogen van de meester. Mokken en sokken Denk je aan de schilder Claude Monet, dan gaan de eerste gedachten waarschijnlijk uit naar diens kleurrijke doeken… 

Shout out! The big fill-in for the new arts plan.

The Council for Culture has just proposed the new Basic Infrastructure (BIS), and it has become a very big, in traditional terms 'prosperous', baby. Since the Council is not allowed to name names, and can only list functions, we have already made a fill-in list here, in which we list (very briefly, because little time and not knowing about everything) which existing cultural... 

Our readers' list. What we should all never forget from 2017.

Nou hebben we het hier niet zo op hypes en tradities, maar toch. De donkere dagen rond kerst zijn dit jaar wel erg donker, dus waarom niet iets met lijstjes. Dit jaar even geen lijstje van de redactie met toppers, maar willekeurige inzendingen van willekeurige lezers, in willekeurige, zij het licht alfabetische volgorde. Motto van de lezersvraag was: welke dingen… 

A déjà vu as fresh as an oven bun: The Hague is truffled with artworks by Jan Goeting. But you don't see them until you know

Every city in the Netherlands has artists who enjoy local fame and glory but just beyond the city limits produce only questioning looks. Take the Goeting family of painters from The Hague. They are Jan Goeting (1918-1984), his wife Catharina (1912-1987) and son Joep (1946-1986). The nice thing about this family is: every Hagenaar or Hagenees over 55 knows many works by at least Jan... 

Entree van het Gemeentemuseum. Foto Studio Vollaerszwart

Hoe de citydresser alles Mondriaankleuren geeft, en waarom het museum dat prima vindt

Op de verjaardag van Piet Mondriaan, 7 maart, bood de gemeente Den Haag haar inwoners een kolossale gedecoreerde taart aan. Het past in een zeer actieve campagne rondom 100 jaar De Stijl. Terwijl het Gemeentemuseum dit jaar drie inhoudelijke Stijl-tentoonstellingen presenteert, gaat Den Haag helemaal los met Stijl-imitaties en beplakte winkelruiten. Een tegenstelling? Minder dan het lijkt, want deze citydressing… 

Gerrit Rietveld's Red and Blue Chair in original and later condition (source: commons.wikimedia.org)

The Rietveld chair was brown - 10 things you didn't know about De Stijl #MTDD

Something with straight lines and planes and primary colours. We all get that far with De Stijl. But did you know that there was also Style music and that a mechanical figure danced to that, er, Style? Let's get things straight before the Mondrian to Dutch Design exhibition season begins. 1. Mondrian was not the big man of De Stijl Piet... 

Ten reasons to go to literary festival Winternachten

Writers Unlimited could hardly have chosen a more appropriate theme for this year's literary festival Winternachten: Is this the real life? That question will be on many a mind when the new president of the United States is inaugurated on Friday. Fortunately, some eighty writers who do have something meaningful to say about the state of... 

Edith and Judith after arrival. So that's not how they hang in the exhibition! Photo Gemeentemuseum The Hague

Magical girls by Klimt and Schiele

There are outside opportunities to be taken advantage of. Egon Schiele's Portrait of Edith by his wife Edith will be joined by Gustav Klimt's Judith I from Vienna for a one-off at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Two fascinating works, both very rarely on loan. And although the artists knew and appreciated each other, there is almost no greater difference imaginable than... 

Stations of the Cross of St Bernulphus Church (author's photo)

Toorop and Berlage: good marriage at Gemeentemuseum

The Jugendstil curls of the famous 'salad oil poster' adorn the logo of the major Toorop exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. And while this choice is recognisable and appealing, there is something to be said against it. After all, the museum is so keen to show other sides of Toorop. And there are surprisingly many of them. The Gemeentemuseum has a history with... 

Appel rotzooide niet maar wat aan

Tien jaar na zijn dood blijkt Karel Appel tijdlozer dan je met alleen Cobra in het achterhoofd zou denken. Dat is te zien op een groot en indrukwekkend retrospectief in het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Daar prijkt het oeuvre van een zeer veelzijdig kunstenaar, die zich tot op hoge leeftijd bleef ontwikkelen. Een impressie van de tentoonstelling in aanbouw. Tekeningen Naast… 

Rik Wouters, Autumn, 1913, 135 x 140 cm, Oil on canvas, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp ©Lukasart in Flanders

Belgian colour on Dutch cheeks - 7 reasons why you should visit 'Colour Unleashed' soon

Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong time. Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in the period when modern art was born? Then I correct myself: no, there were many problems and uncertainties back then too. But the new exhibition Colour Unleashed at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag makes me hesitate again. Because the exhibited... 

Montecelio, M.C. Escher, March 1924, East Indian ink on paper, © The M.C. Escher Company BV, Baarn

Newly discovered and unique: unknown Escher on display in The Hague #escher

Museum Escher in het Paleis has acquired an unknown early work by M.C. Escher. The museum announced this today. In the print, a depiction of the Italian town of Montecelio, the famous graphic artist experimented with a variety of techniques. The museum is delighted. Because it's not every day you find an unknown but important Escher anymore. It must have been quite a marriage,... 

Sierk van Meeuwen, Terrorist (source: zomerexpo.nl)

'Also nice. A hot chick with a kalashnikov.' Amateurs and pros in Haags Gemeentemuseum

The annual Summer Expo at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is open to submissions from amateurs. But in the end, as many as 70% of the entrants turn out to have attended an art school, and even 80% of the selected entries were made by professional artists. With two guests, I visit the Summer Exhibition. Museum visitor Rob van Berlo picks his favourites. Gallery owner Nena Milinkovic I ask the same,... 

Nature conservation on canvas in Dordrecht and The Hague

The double exhibition 'Holland op z'n mooist - Op pad met de Haagse School' opens at the Dordrecht Museum on 5 April and at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag on 4 April. The two museums are joining forces with Natuurmonumenten to show the nature of the late 19th century alongside that of today. In two exhibitions (genre pieces in Dordrecht, landscapes in The Hague),... 

Anton Corbijn in het Gemeentemuseum (foto auteur)

Anton Corbijn in Den Haag: Iconische portretten, gedateerde muzikanten

In de zalen van het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag heeft Mark Rothko plaatsgemaakt voor fotograaf Anton Corbijn. Groter verschil lijkt bijna niet denkbaar, maar een tentoonstelling met veel popfoto’s past naadloos in de missie van het museum om 20e eeuwse avant-gardekunst te brengen, benadrukt directeur Benno Tempel. Corbijn, die dit jaar zijn 60e verjaardag viert, wordt geëerd met een dubbeltentoonstelling; behalve… 

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