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This exhibition, put together by the chief curator of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Levent Calikoglu, is the first large-scale show of contemporary art from Turkey in Rotterdam. The exhibition showcases works by 14 artists from the 1970s to the present. They vary in technique: photography, painting, sculpture and video installation all collaborate to give an image of...
Tile European Vine Art Fair is one of the most impressive art sales in the world, selling museum-quality works from the world’s leading galleries. Although it was old Master paintings, these days the fair is divided into nine sections, including paintings, furniture, jewellery, prints and contemporary design.
More than 260 art and antique dealers coming from 18 countries...
The recently renovated National Maritime Museum celebrates the city's shipping history. The east side of this grand building features seven exhibitions from the museum’s extensive permanent collection, while the western side spotlights interactive kid friendly experiences and the north side's focus is on the Port of Amsterdam.
Exhibition The Golden Age
Though it sounds all...
This monthly art tour through the centre of Haarlem now includes 24 studios and galleries. We re talking realistic paintings by Willem Belgrisch at the Galerie De Kromme Gevel, costume design at Atelier Paladijne, industrial architecture-inspired ceramics in the studio of Janneke Makkink and fashion accessories designed by Jet Meijeis at Salon Hippie Deluxe, Grab a...
Adjacent to the De Regenboog drop-in centre for the homeless and recently re-housed, this affiliated workshop offers its students a hot meal at lunchtime and the chance to acquire a new skill in the form of candle making. All day long, happy crafters can be seen pouring fluorescent molten wax into a variety of distinctive moulds. The brightly coloured results are worthy of any...
Set up in 1976 by owner Paul Derrez, Galerie Ra is something of a grande dame of the local art jewellery circuit, having outlived its competitors by more than a decade. Recently relocated from the Vijzelstraat to the Nes, Derrez insists that the jewellery gallery is 'not about the glitz and glamour'.
Antiquated cabinets line the walls of this urbane space, offering a solid...
New talent is showcased every six weeks and the recent Angele van den Thillart exhibition, which includes oil paintings and sculptures of close-up body parts, was, according to avid Galerie de Salon fan Marta Bos, 'Classic, weird and wonderful'. While Deen's aim is to transform the salon into a full-time gallery, he's quite happy at present: ‘Being a barber is like being an...
Set up the troupe of Dutch artists and designers, this minimalist, whitewashed boutique and gallery shuns girly couture in favour of what co-founder and fashion designer Hester Slaman terms 'baroque fashion and art - something a little darker’. Renowned photographer Paul Blanca's moving black and white photos (he photographer ballet teacher Nora Kimbell naked and screaming in...
If the latest Damien Hirst is out of your price range, artist Mark Raven may be a reasonable substitute. Stationed in the centre of town on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, this (self-named) artistic hub sells his etchings in many guises. There's an original canvas of Oudebrugsteeg in the Red Light District for €650 nestled next to a row of T-shirts of the same work for €10, 'I...
When is a pipe not a pipe? When it's collected, fetishised and displayed for its artistic, cultural and historic value; when it becomes an artifact.
Some 2,000 local and international pipes till the grand wooden display cases lining the pristine sea green-walls in this circa-1680 canal-side time capsule. The Pijpenkabinet, with its worn wooden floors and burgundy ceiling beams...
Brusquely banished from The Museum of Spectacles (you can't pop in Monday to Wednesday sans appointment, silly).
Part curiosity shop, part spectacle store, it feels more like an optical wardrobe than a museum. Spread over two floors of an antiquated town house in the shadow of the Noorderkerk, which was once, aptly, an optician's shop, there's all manner of quirky relics,...
Just as it's a bit mind boggling that one of the world's greatest poets, William Butler Yeats, spent some of his precious time writing a book of odes to felines, passers-by might never imagine that a classic 17th-century canal house along the scenic Prinsengracht holds the KattenKabinet, a museum devoted entirely to, you guessed it, cats.
Owner Bob Meijer still lives in part...
Why Saudi Arabia? That's the natural question one might ask when entering this one-room museum, overlooking the Leidseplein, devoted entirely to politically engaged contemporary art by six artists from that country.
Aarnout Helb, a 46-year-old retired Dutch lawyer, has been collecting art since he was 16 and started focusing on Saudi Arabian art two years ago after reading the...
Fluorescent art suggests flower power, the 1960s and drugs. Physics or geology, however, may not be the first things that come to mind.
Electric Ladyland prides itself on being the only museum of its kind in the world, which combines science with fluorescence for an experience that you definitely can't have anywhere else. Brooklyn-bred Nick Paladino, a quintessential American...
A veritable temple to the idea that, when it comes to innovative artistry. West is best, SMART Project Space has been in its current home in the former Pathological Anatomical Laboratory since 2008. Since then, SMART has played host to multidisciplinary shows that seek to expand upon traditional relationships between the artist and audience. A case in point was this year's ':...
