1st October – 27th March 2022. NAVAL BATTLES, STORMS, SHIP PORTRAITS AND WINDLESS DAYS First retrospective exhibition of marine painters…
Read more16th – 24th October. A festival commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of the greatest Dutch composer. The greatest…
Read more24th & 25th September. Sawdust Symphony talks about the human desire to create: the process from vision to construction, the…
Read more8th October – 13th February 2022. The exhibition The Potato Eaters: Mistake or Masterpiece? is an ode to the work which Vincent van…
Read more13th – 24th October. The Nederlands Kamerkoor conducted by Martina Batič will tour the country with Ester. In this musical…
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Alan Lucien Øyen has created a dystopian milieu with Tell Your Mom You Love Your Skin. In this world premiere one always felt there was a story-line, but one could never quite figure it out. Just as you thought you understood it, it moved off somewhere else . . .
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is adding a new hotspot to Rotterdam’s culinary map. The celebrated Rotterdam-born chef Jim de Jong will be head chef of the restaurant on the top floor.
Twice a year Ramon Dykgraaf and his partner Marc Cals throw open the doors of their wonderful sixteenth century house to the public to show the work of half a dozen artists. The shows are organised along with Joke Doedens and Simone Haak who run Terra, a ceramics gallery in the city.
Rijksmuseum has purchased a large part of an important collection of Meissen porcelain at the auction including the two highlights, a clock and coffee and tea set. It is part of the Meissen collection of the Jewish-German couple Franz and Margarethe Oppenheimer,
The introduction of music, with lyrics both comic and tragic, brought an added dimension to the play. It began with a guitar-lead serenade played by three youths that referenced the power of both the heart and the eyes – a common Shakespearean motif.
Stadcocoon, the inflatable artwork installation by Florentijn Hofman in Schiedam will have extended opening hours in September. On 23rd and 24th September you can visit the Stadcocoon until 7 pm, instead of 5 pm. As a bonus during this late opening, there will be live music. City organist Arjen Leistra plays the piece of music dedicated to the Stadcocoon.
Between 1910 and 1940 the foremost Canadian artists, known as The Group of Seven, very aware that their country was a bit of an artistic backwater, were determined to rectify the situation.
In previous years the textile show in particular has been a bit too literal, concentrating very much on the craft with lots of macramé and other predictably soft things. This year the emphasis is very much on art with a capital A.
