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• ghentian hecklers
  Spectators at the Gentse Feesten , frowned upon by an opera house of Statler and Waldorf s...
• vermeer & van meegeren
  Two small but interesting exhibitions related to Johannes Vermeer ... The Mauritshuis hosts ' The Young Vermeer ', bringing together three of his early works: ' Diana and
• wind-up stone
  Seen in Vlissingen (or Flushing as it's called in English), this sculpture by Jan Haas . Officially titled: 'Duizenden jaren deel van / een massief / op het punt van beweg
• heel ander blad
  For Dutch speakers, the collage newspaper 'Heel Ander Blad' ('Very Different Paper') by artist Luuk Wilmering offers an effective piece of media satire. The concept - cutt
• the gift
  ...a work of art is a gift, not a commodity. Or, to state the modern case with more precision, (...) works of art exist simultaneously in two 'economies', a market economy
• van warmerdam trees
  If you're familiar with Alex van Warmerdam 's films and plays, the current exhibition in Stedelijk Museum Schiedam won't offer any big surprises. The majority of the work
• a tool to deceive and slaughter
  Intriguing conceptual art piece by Caleb Larsen, titled ' A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter '. It consists of a shiny black box connected to the web, which will put itself u
• mondrian's trees
  The exhibition ' Cézanne - Picasso - Mondrian, A new perspective ' at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, which ended this weekend, connected three of the great modernist artists
• oblique strategies
  In 1975, musician Brian Eno and painter Peter Schmidt created a deck of cards containing short statements or questions. Called ' Oblique Strategies , over one hundred wort
• most people are other people
  "De meeste mensen zijn andere mensen" - or in English: "Most people are other people" - on the former Heineken building in Rotterdam. It's a quote from the king of epigram
• praying woman
  Great wall painting in Rotterdam, by Brazilian artist Dante Horoiwa . Part of the Reflexo on Urban Art festival, which invited "10 Brazilian graffiti artists to paint huge
• shopping astronaut
  Almost forgot to post this stencil graffiti from Stokes Croft, Bristol, which seems to be by an artist called SPQR . (Actually a better photo is this one .) Meanwhile that
• waiting for a ball
  In 1998, photographer Hans van der Meer published his photo book 'Dutch Fields' ('Hollandse Velden'), a superbly satirical look at amateur football. Its carefully framed i
• woman holding a balance
  On a rare loan from Washington DC, Johannes Vermeer 's ' Woman Holding a Balance ' ('Dame met weegschaal') is on display at the Rijksmuseum , along with ' The Milkmaid ' (
• medusa's head
  Two awesome renderings of Medusa in Florence. One already showed up in the previous post : Cellini 's bronze statue of Perseus holding Medusa's head, in the gallery on the
• florence sculpture
  Some random samples of sculpture from the overwhelming open-air museum that is Florence... So overwhelming, in fact, that the city has been known to induce Stendhal syndro
• iffr: aspect ratio
  The ' Aspect Ratio ' exhibition in Tent , part of the IFFR , takes as its point of departure the 1977 classic ' Powers of 10 '. Inspired by the Dutch book ' Cosmic View '
• add-art
  For many Firefox users, ad blockers like Adblock Plus have long purged websites of blinking banners and other annoying advertisements. Now Add-Art provides a nice way to f
• reclining figure
  The biggest impact of seeing the exhibition of Fritz Wotruba at the sculpture museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen was a new appreciation of one of his works not present
• 100 films
  Bit of an abstract milestone, but the previous post marked the 100th entry tagged with film on this blog. That's 100 reviews (well, not quite, some are just quotes or link
• monk by the sea
  Not part of the current Caspar David Friedrich exhibition , unfortunately, is 'Monk by the Sea'. One of Friedrich's most striking, almost Expressionistic (in 1809) evocati
• on a sailing ship
  The Amsterdam Hermitage currently has a small exhibition of nine paintings and a number of drawings by German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich . Among his wild and
• flower wolf
  Seen at Wereld van Witte de With this weekend.
• where it is warm and bright
  In the current Cabinet , themed The Underground, Michael Saler tells the story of how the London Underground became a leading patron for graphic design and art in the 1920
• escher & the droste effect
  One more on Escher... An old favorite site is ' Escher and the Droste effect ', presenting a mathematical analysis of Escher's 'Print Gallery' ('Prentententoonstelling', 1
• escher in lego
  Some more Escher... Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu have been building Escher prints in Lego, including ' Balcony ', ' Ascending and Descending ' and ' Waterfall '. While mo
• escher's metamorphoses
  What I didn't know: there are three different versions of M.C. Escher 's wall-covering woodcut 'Metamorphosis'. Interesting to see the development of this work, which seem
• throwing self on heap of hay
  One of the founding fathers of modern cinema, Eadweard Muybridge famously introduced motion into photography by pioneering the technique of stop-action photography. (The p
• real snail mail
  A "slow art" project by boredomresearch , RealSnailMail is "the world's first webmail service using live snails." Your e-mail could take days or even weeks to get delivere
• tales of the alhambra
  The swan song of the Moors in Europe, the 14th century Alhambra palace remains suffused with exotic mystery. Located on a hilltop overlooking Granada , its fortified walls
• wheat field with crows
  One of Akira Kurosawa 's last films, ' Dreams ' ('Yume') is made up of eight dreams from his own life. In the stunning segment called 'Crows', an art student steps into a
• geertgen tot sint jans
  The 15th century in Dutch painting was that transition period when perspective was not quite understood yet (or maybe just not deemed relevant), painting styles were still
• ophelia
  John Everett Millais ' ' Ophelia ' is currently on display at the Van Gogh Museum . Based on the scene in ' Hamlet ' of Ophelia drowning (which Shakespeare left open for i
• what can't be copied
  Kevin Kelly recently wrote a thoughtful essay called ' Better Than Free ' on the economics of a digital society. In what is essentially a modern inversion of Walter Benjam
• do-it-yourself-sculpture
  A belated post on the Jean Tinguely exhibition in the Kunsthal , which ended late January... While cool to see such an uncompromising, alternative vision on our material,
• startling
    Some interesting textual art by San Francisco artist Tauba Auerbach . This one's called 'Subtraction (Startling)'. See her 'Alphabetized Bible' as well. Via SpaceCollect
• creature
  Not normally one for animal photography, the new book ' Creature ' by Andrew Zuckerman struck me as an interesting blend of zoology and art. Hi-res, super-sharp photograph
• stalking hieronymus
  'Stalking Hieronymus' by Belgian painter Hans Vandekerckhove visibly merges two sources of inspiration: Jeroen (or Hieronymus) Bosch ' painting ' St. Jerome at Prayer' and
• god is in the details
  The absolute highlight of the Persia exhibition in the Hermitage Amsterdam was its collection of medieval manuscripts and miniatures . Unfortunately, due to their fragilit
• the world of witte de with
  Just a quick impression of last weekend's The World of Witte de With festival in Rotterdam, where the theme was heroes and all the windows were decorated with texts rangin
• shed a tear
  Amid all the reconstruction chaos of Rotterdam's Central Station , you'd almost overlook a poetic tribute to the old station, designed by Sybold van Ravesteyn in 1957 and
• game, game, game and again game
  For an original and utterly weird interactive experience, check out ' game, game, game and again game ' by Jason Nelson , who calls it "a digital poem/game/net artwork hyb
• unknown sage
  No idea who this sculpture is of or by (nor to what extent its weather-worn appearance is intentional). It's located in front of the Neptune Grotto of the Sanssouci Palace
• deaf07: roots
  Another piece at the Dutch Electronic Art Festival 2007 exhibition worth mentioning is ' Roots ', by Austrian artist Roman Kirschner . Like 'Ondulation' ( see before ), it
• deaf07: ondulation
  At the exhibition of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival 2007 in Rotterdam, one interesting piece was ' Ondulation ', by Thomas McIntosh. A "composition for water, sound and
• havidol
  "Everyone should be able to live life to its fullest. I used to believe I did. I felt confident in myself, and my relationships. I exercised regularly. I slept quietly thr
• topor
  Some samples of the savage surrealism of Roland Topor . His novel ' The Tenant ', which was later filmed by Polanski , contains a telling quote which sums up his world vie
• tideland
  Terry Gilliam summed up his latest film ' Tideland ', based on the novel by Mitch Cullin , as ' Alice in Wonderland ' meets ' Psycho '. A sinister and surreal fairytale, '
• wooden apples
  'Appels', Heemraadsingel Rotterdam, by Kees Franse .
• crime scene amsterdam
  The ' Crime Scene Amsterdam ' photo exhibition at Foam shows real crime scenes and real victims from police archives, taken between 1965 and 1985. Looking at these photogr
• ship of fools
  Jeroen Bosch ' famous ' Ship of Fools ', the medieval allegory of humans wasting their lives in idle pleasures. Less widely known is that the custom of putting the insane
• le coup au coeur
  The Voici Magritte exhibition in Boijmans shows mainly Magritte 's lesser known drawings and gouaches. Among the many sketches, experiments and variations on his famous pa
• life forms
  Far away from slides-as-art or reality-tv-as-art , the new London Kinetica Museum has an interesting exhibition called 'Life Forms'. Ranging from ingenious machines and ro
• ahmet abi
  Apparently this weird, tucked away illuminated sign in Rotterdam is an art project by Arno Coenen . The text is based on a Turkish poem by Edip Cansever called ' The Voice
• the falling eye
  Interesting exhibition of Saskia Olde Wolbers' video art, titled ' The Falling Eye ', at the Stedelijk Museum . In all four pieces shown, dreamlike images combine with a v
• de monet aux pixels
  Claude Monet famously painted a whole series of Rouen 's Notre Dame Cathedral at different times of day. Half a century later, Roy Lichtenstein made a Pop art version. Now
• ink city
  At the otherwise disappointing China Contemporary exhibition in Rotterdam, Chen Shaoxiong 's 'Ink City' is an interesting exception. An "ink video" consisting of 300 ink d
• carceri d'invenzione
  Giovanni Battista Piranesi 's 'Carceri d'Invenzione' ('Imaginary Prisons') are a series of poster-size etchings depicting a dark prison world - though prison is far too ta
• untitled big man
  Artist and former model maker Ron Mueck makes hyper-realistic, gargantuan, unsettling sculptures of human beings. Great series of photos here . Some more here . Via P .
• ce qui dit la pluie
  The extensive Toulouse-Lautrec exhibition at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam of course features many of his famous litograph posters for the Moulin Rouge and Parisian stars of t
• iffr: klimt
  The director's cut of ' Klimt ', the new film by Raúl Ruiz , starring John Malkovich , had its world premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival . As emphasized by Ruiz, the f
• new year's resolutions, pt. 1
  It's high time i said something about Buster Keaton here. And more specifically about the existential Keaton vs. Chaplin debate (see, for instance, ' The Dreamers '). Thou
• people's poses
  Strange how powerful some of Rineke Dijkstra 's simple, frontal portrait photographs are. Awkward adolescents on the beach or in the park, young soldiers in uniform, blood
• need an expo pavilion?
  Remember the Dutch pavilion for the World Expo 2000 in Hannover? A "stacked landscape" designed by MVRDV , it was the Expo's tallest structure, and a big hit at the time.
• little patch of yellow wall
  Visiting the Mauritshuis today to see the 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' for real (as reality follows blog posts these days), I was struck by that other Vermeer , hanging acr
• subbacultures
  An old one, but still great, this photo inventory of subcultures... @ www.exactitudes.com
• mona lisa of the north
  However beautifully evoking Vermeer 's 17th century Delft light, you might not want to see the film ' Girl with a Pearl Earring '... It might just spoil her mysterious Mon
• munich giant
  
• dalí & disney's destino
  "A simple love story, where boy meets girl," Walt Disney described his animation project with Salvador Dalí in 1946. For Dalí it was "a magical exposition on the problem o
• dachau
  Where one sculpture says more than the whole two hour tour...
• canvas amsterdam
  Cool collection of critical aphorisms someone called Laser 3:14 (bible reference? pi-obsession?) decorates the walls of Amsterdam with. See them all @ www.dekliek.nl/artic
• printer art
  Just when you finally want to print out those forms for your administration, your printer decides to be an autonomous artist...
• abstract high rise
  Check these amazing photos of Hong Kong high rise. Almost Escher, except people live in it... Michael Wolf's Architecture of Density (Suggested by Jens .)

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