Flying Too Close to the Sun
Flying Too Close to the Sun is another unique-concept book from Phaidon Press. It is illustrated with every genre of art from every era. There...
The Museum of Lost Art – book review
From the bestselling author of The Art of Forgery, Noah Charney, comes this fantasy art adventure, The Museum of Lost Art. This is a stroll through...
Designed in the USSR: 1950-1989
Designed in the USSR: 1950-1989 is another book from Phaidon. Not a cookbook this time but a rather topical design book which does indeed offer...
Rubenshuis in Antwerp – travel review
Antwerp is often overlooked, visitors to north-west Europe gravitating to its more celebrated cousins of Paris and Amsterdam. It is, however, a treasure-trove of history,...
The Glass of Ettore Sottsass – art book review
Ettore Sottsass (1917 – 2007) was an Italian architect and designer. His body of work included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, and strangely, office equipment, which...
Jan Steen Exhibition at Mauritshuis The Hague – review
The Mauritshuis is home to some of the most famous Dutch paintings of the Golden Age. The gallery is a perfectly formed and fitting contemporary...
Charmed lives in Greece: Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor – travel review
From 8 March – 15 July 2018 – The influence of modern Greece on the lives and work of three influential artists is explored in...
Treasures of the Mughals and the Maharajas – review
The Al Thani Collection Treasures of the Mughals and the Maharajas, published on the occasion of the extraordinary exhibition of the Al Thani Collection in...
Leeuwarden – Friesland Cultural Capital of Europe 2018 officially opened
The opening ceremony was performed by The King and Queen of The Netherlands in Leeuwarden-Friesland. Church bells rang out across the entire province of Friesland,...
Leeuwarden – European Capital of Culture 2018
1 January – 31 December 2018 The European Capital of Culture 2018 takes place in Leeuwarden, the capital of the Dutch province of Friesland. It...
In Nuenen with Vincent van Gogh – travel review
Vincent van Gogh’s Nuenen is documented in charming fashion at the Vincentre Who is this ‘Vincent’ and where is Nuenen? We are exploring the life...
Kröller-Müller Museum – gardens and galleries – travel review
This delightful museum is a triumph. Yes, it will be a draw for lovers of art but it has such broad appeal for those who...
The Textile Museum, Tilburg – travel review
‘No, Mum, not a museum!’ Yes, many of us have heard that sad and somewhat panic-stricken refrain from youngsters who are dreading the prospect of...
Drawings for Paintings: in the Age of Rembrandt by Ger Luijten, Peter Schatborn – review
Dutch artists have, for centuries, been admired for the realistic quality of their work. Seventeenth-century landscapes and scenes of ordinary life are all here. One...
Between Heaven and Earth: Atelier NL – art review
It seemed unlikely. A pottery in a church in Eindhoven. But here it was and it is indeed a divine space in which to sympathetically...
Vietnam Eye – Contemporary Vietnamese Art – book review
This is the most comprehensive tome on contemporary art in Vietnam today. It is a page-turner for any art lover but it also appeals to...
Het Noordbrabants Museum acquires van Gogh watercolour – until 19 March 2017
Het Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Holland has recently acquired from a private collection The Garden of the Vicarage at Nuenen by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)....
Art Place Japan by Fram Kitagawa – review
Every three years hundreds of square miles of countryside in north western Japan are transformed into a sprawling and many-faceted art installation. More than 150...