5th & 6th October. WAVELENGTH is the festival for classical music and science at the Leiden Bio Science Park. Listen…
Read more11th – 13th October. An extremely funny one-woman comedy, where much is created by delightful unexpectedness. Le foulard is a…
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Read more22nd September – 20th January. Action <> Reaction: 100 Years of Kinetic Art presents an impressive historical overview of kinetic…
Read more14th September – 7th October. In 2016 Scapino celebrated its 70th anniversary with the large-scale production TING Almost 22 thousand…
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SALMAN RUSHDIE: on New York, Nero and Naipaul – 19th September 2018
At seventy-one, Rushdie confesses that he loves living in New York in spite of its links with Donald Trump. This brings him to his latest novel, The Golden House, (2017) and one of its central characters, Nero.
The story of Starwound begins 6 years ago, when they thought about the necessity of giving their artistic contribution during a difficult situation like the one that happened in Greece during the economic crisis. Their first performance was in Athens . . . As Petros, the band’s pianist says, ‘We are not a traditional rock band. Neither a jazz one. . .’
Visitors to Boijmans’ recently opened Pure Rubens exhibition, still have a chance to also see Goya’s Los Desastres de la Guerra. This exhibition is to be found at the museum’s Print Room. The complete series, also known as The Horrors of War is not often…
Once again, Valery Gergiev is in Rotterdam. Here, they traditionally give ovation after ovation to their beloved charismatic former chief conductor. Last night, it was even more well-deserved than usual.
Claus was primarily a writer. He wrote a thousand pages of poetry, more than sixty plays, over twenty novels and several essays, film scripts, libretti and translations but he also made forays into film-making and the visual arts as this small but nicely presented exhibition demonstrates.
The simplicity of the outdoor setting was off-set by a variety of comic costume choices, including a selection of wigs in dubious condition and a general merriment of approach that encourages the sort of audience response that was no doubt typical of Shakespeare’s own time
With Pure Rubens, the curators have created a glittering gem of an exhibition . . . I was never a great fan of Rubens’ typically overloaded paintings. For me they are too rich, too voluptuous, too rubenesque – but the oil sketches, they are breath-taking and utterly wonderful.
Foam is an international organisation that deals with photography in all its aspects. In addition to hosting exhibitions, it organises meetings and educational projects, its purpose to make the art of photography accessible to as many people as possible
