VAN GOGH ALONG THE SEINE at Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

13th October – 14th January 2024. The Van Gogh Museum concludes its 50th anniversary year with Van Gogh Along the…

BREATHE by Kalpanarts at the Korzo Theater in The Hague

5th October. New dance performance and world premiere by Kalpanarts. Dance production about breathing space and freedom The world premiere…

Nederlands Reisopera's DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE on tour

30th September – 11th November. Korngold’s fourth opera, Das Wunder der Heliane, was undoubtedly his most ambitious project. The libretto…

SONGS AND SILENCES by Amos Ben-Tal on tour

From 29th September. Songs and Silences is not the usual evening-length dance piece but rather a series of shorter works.…

THE FUTURE OF LOOT at Mauritshuis in The Hague

14th September – 7th January 2024. An innovative exhibition featuring original objects, physical and digital replica’s, plus film and virtual…

Ai Weiwei engages both with past and present of China, openly protesting against the destruction of the country’s culture. He professes not to seek to make art for the sake of beauty, although everything he has created is in fact beautiful and executed to perfection. But the message is always beyond the objects’ surface appearance. His is the visual language of activism, of protest against injustice, the pernicious state control over information, denial of free speech to the Chinese population in particular and human rights abuses world wide.

To introduce the whole of the Netherlands to the power of art in an accessible way, Nationale-Nederlanden has introduced the NN Art Festival, an eleven day event which runs until 8th October in more than twenty museums throughout The Netherlands. We were at the launch of the initiative last night at the Kunstmuseum in The Hague, the city in which Nationale-Nederlanden has its headquarters.

At Amsterdam’s Theater Carré more than fifty performers invited us to conquer every cavity of the theater amidst an ocean of electrifying sounds.
In celebration of Splendor’s 10th anniversary, musicians and dancers of the circus shook the stage (quite literally) as they took the audience on an adventurous journey through Classical, Jazz, Western, Eastern and even new experimental musical arrangements.

22nd September. Opening Night – PINK BOOTS AND AN ALCOHOLIC SOCK. This show really appealed to me when I saw it announced. I am a fan of circus arts and always go for the quirky, eccentric and even the very silly – Pink Boots and an Alcoholic Sock promised all that. I started off quite liking Harvey Cobb and I tried very hard to like his show, but sadly I didn’t.

The performance got under way with a reprise of Marco Goecke’s 2022 I Love You, Ghosts, a rather sombre, macabre even, event with lots of black and chiaroscuro. The opening music, Harry Belafonte singing the soothing Try to Remember from the 1960 musical The Fantasticks, augured perhaps a sentimental journey, but this turned out not to be.

The iconic Westergas in Amsterdam became an engaging and lively scene, attracting several international artists and photography enthusiasts. In total, 78 exhibitors, 65 publishers of the book market and 9 special projects from around the globe present this year’s theme of nature and humankind’s relationship with the environment

From 13th October, 2023, the installation will be the showpiece of the Urban Artivism exhibition , which draws attention to climate change. This route through the entire museum includes 15 works of art by street artists who are committed to addressing this extremely current theme.

From 23rd September, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam will present the new acquisition Planetary Chapel (2021) by Levi van Veluw, in a specially designed blue, tranquil space. From the outside, the work most resembles a modern interpretation of a small altar.