Max Liebermann – Impressions of Summer
From 1870 to 1914 the German artist Max Liebermann spent many happy summers at Scheveningen in The Netherlands with his friend the artist Jozef…
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Mondrian’s Journey Through Modern Art
Piet Mondrian is unquestionably one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century. A key figure in the De Stijl movement whose 100th anniversary…
New Realities – The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
This summer the Rijksmuseum is presenting a major retrospective of 19th-century photography. Three hundred photos from the museum’s own collection including portraits, nudes, cityscapes…
Small Wonders – The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
They are among the most sophisticated, mysterious and unknown works of Dutch art: the masterfully carved figurines, miniature shrines, coffins, skulls and prayer nuts…
Tumult in the City – Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Tumult in the City, is the first major exhibition of the Tachtigers (artists of the 1880s) or Dutch Impressionists as they are sometimes known,…
Jean Fouquet’s astonishing Virgin
Jean Fouquet’s Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels is one of the most original depictions of the pair in art history. One half of…
Ensor and Spilliaert – two gentlemen of Ostend
Ostend was birthplace and muse to two of the greatest Belgian artists of the late nineteenth century, James Ensor and Léon Spilliaert. The former…
Mundaneum, Mons – The Paper Google
A century before Google entered the consciousness of the world’s population residents of Belgium had access to their very own analogue search engine….
Musée Fragonard – not for the faint hearted
The Musée Fragonard, or to give it its full title Le Musée de l’Ecole Nationale Véterináire d’Alfort, situated in an obscure suburb of Paris,…
Fantin Latour – Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
A fleur de peau, at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris is the first retrospective dedicated to Fantin Latour for 35 years. Famous for…