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Welcome ArtsTalk Magazine Holland

Launched in June 2017, we are the sister publication of StageTalk Magazine in the UK and provide previews, reviews and information, in English, for theatres, art exhibitions, concerts, opera etc, concentrating on cities in south west Netherlands (Noord/Zuid Holland and Utrecht regions). Each venue, museum or gallery has its own page with information and a link to its website. The site is updated regularly and information is always coming in so there is always something new to discover or read about.

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Some Highlights This Month

This month is dominated by exhibitions – both ancient and modern. The Golden Age is still dominating everything. The most recent exhibition to open was the excellent PIETER DE HOOCH show at the Prinsenhof Museum in Delft while in Amsterdam REMBRANDT-VELÁZQUEZ: DUTCH & SPANISH MASTERS continues at the Rijksmuseum as does NICOLAES MAES, REMBRANDT’S VERSATILE PUPIL at Mauritshuis in The Hague.

WE VIKINGS at the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden

The lifestyle included more than just the notorious looting. Vikings were also very skilled traders with an extensive network, from which the Dutch coastal inhabitants also benefited. Frisians might even join the Vikings and take part in their raids.In We Vikings over 500 objects from the Netherlands and abroad illustrate the complex relationship between Dutch coastal inhabitants and Vikings.

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The ArtsTalk Podcast

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Each week ArtsTalk Magazine editor Michael Hasted presents a podcast focusing on cultural events in and around The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
This week he visits the CC Amstel Theater in Amsterdam during rehearsals for QE2’s new production of THE 39 STEPS which runs from 6th – 8th December. He talks to director LOVEDAY SMITH, co-producer MARK WINSTANLEY, both of whom both also appear in the play, and to the other two cast members, Graham Garner and Charles Bird.

Joseph Stiglitz and Deidre McCloskey at the John Adams Institute Amsterdam

Two world class economists were in Amsterdam this week to talk about their new books – Deidre McCloskey’s, ‘Why Liberalism Works’ and Joseph Stiglitz’s ‘People, Power and Profits’. Their latest offerings place these two giants of American economics in direct opposition to one another on many counts.

KENNETH CRANHAM talks about HAROLD PINTER

Harold Pinter’s THE CARETAKER (De Huisbewaarder) toured throughout the Netherlands last year. Kenneth Cranham is one of the British actors most associated with Pinter having appeared in six of the writer’s plays in the UK. This interview was conducted while Cranham was appearing in THE FATHER (DE VADER) in England, to which he refers.