This month we have the fascinating story of what happened to the Mauritshuis Museum during the Nazi occupation along with a preview of a major exhibition in Amsterdam by Anselm Kiefer, an artist who often references WW2 in his work. We review dance events by Dutch National Ballet Junior Company and ICK along with a dance-based benefit event for Ukraine at Korzo in The Hague. Wendy Fossen reviews a fine exhibition by a lesser known Expressionist painter, Marianne von Werefkin, in Zwolle and we are at Brutus in Rotterdam for Everything Is True – Nothing Is Permitted.
Cover shows Marianne von Werefkin’s The Red Tree at De Fundatie in Zwolle
BACK ISSUES . . .
February 2025
Huis Marseille
Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Reisopera’s Ariadne auf Naxos
STRAAT Museum Amsterdam
ICK Amsterdam
Wat We Doen’s The City She Loves Me
all this and much more
January 2025
Dutch National Ballet
Poernima Gobardhan’s STRĪ
MAN || CO’s Heartcore Kantoor
Here We Live and Now at Korzo
Museum Prinsenhof in Delft
Tobacco Museum Delft
Festival of Light in Amsterdam
Italian old master drawings at The Depot in Rotterdam.
December 2024
Conny Janssen Danst
Club Guy and Roni’s Faith
QETC’s La Cage Aux Folles
Leiden’s big Parade
Restoration of The Night Watch
Museum Den Bosch
IMPAKT in Utrecht
November 2024
Kalpanarts on tour
Dior at Kunstmuseum
Colm Toibin
The Lost Museum at Mauritshuis
Scapino’s Cathedral
Grand Dessert at Kunstmuseum
Alphabets of Flesh by ICK
October 2024
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Scapino Ballet’s OSCAR
Joan Miro sculpture
Dutch artists Ossip
Greg Shapiro on tour
2024 Cello Biennale
September 2024
Delft Chamber Music Festival
Christian Dior in The Hague
Greg Shapiro on tour
Flamenco
The Sistine Chapel in The Hague
Preview of Orhan Pamuk Nexus Lecture
August 2024
Rijswijk Paper Biennale
The Garden at NDSM Amsterdam
Restoring the Mesdag Panorama
Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam
Ron Mueck at Museum Voorlinden
July 2024
Panorama Mesdag in The Hague
Kandinsky at H’ART in Amsterdam
Surrealist Arthur Stam (cover story)
RIDCC
Otto Hamer in Utrecht
June 2024
Holland Festival
NDT’s Do Not Run Fly
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Black Sabbath
Lionel Shriver in Amsterdam
Opera Zuid’s Rossini double-bill
India Dance Festival at Korzo Theater
May 2024
The history of NDT
Circusstad in Rotterdam
Laurien Schreuder
Robbie Williams
Scapino Ballet
New European Ensemble
Haags Historisch Museum
and much more
April 2024
Matthew Wong at Van Gogh Museum
Marco Brambilla at NXT
Jimmy Nelson’s photos
Children of the Hague School
Max Beckmann at Kunstmuseum
Rewire Festival
Ceramics in Delft
March 2024
ART Rotterdam
History of Korzo in The Hague
Rembrandt at de Lakenhal in Leiden
Wishful Singing
Opera2Day
NITE
and much, much more
February 2024
African Art at Wereldmuseum in Leiden
Catharijn Convent in Utrecht
Scapino Ballet
Nicole Beutler Projects
Holland Dance Festival/NDT
FOAM Amsterdam
January 2024
Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam KattenKabinet
Heringa/Van Kalsbeek at Kunstmuseum
NDT’s A Forsythe Evening
and much, much more
December 2023
Anselm Kiefer at Voorlinden
Nederlandse Reisoper on tour
Opera Zuid on tour
NXT Amsterdam
STRAAT Amsterdam
November 2023
Museum Ludwig, Koblenz
Dominicanen Bookshop Maastricht
Song of the Dark Forest by Scapino Ballet
Breathe by Kalpanarts
Mondrian & Hilma af Klint at Kunstmuseum The Hague
October 2023
Ai WeiWei in Rotterdam
Royals & Rebels in The Hague
Van Gogh Museum
NDT’s new season
SPLENDOR’S Cosmic Circus
Yayoi Kusama in Schiedam
Acme Studios in The Hague
September 2023
Boom Chicago
Leroy Wadie
Steef Zoetmulder
Jacob John Shale
Erwin Beijersbergen
Souwie Buis
and lots, lots more . . .
August 2023
Jan Schoonhoven in Delft
A visit to Strasbourg
Galerie Art Jacobs
Delft Chamber Music Festival
Souwie Buis
and much more . . .
July 2023
Sculpture in The Hague
Rijswijk Textile Biennale
Emma Rice’s Wuthering Heights
Opera2Day’s Die Zauberflöte
RIDCC
at much much more . . .
June 2023
Holland Festival
Van Gogh in Auvers
Felipe Pantone at Kunsthal
Cello Octet of Amsterdam
OperaZuid’s Orphée aux Enfers
and lots, lots more . . .
May 2023
Choosing Van Gogh
Delft Fringe Festival
De Suz van Frida Kahlo
Fidelio
Scapino Ballet
plus lots more . . .
April 2023
Jacobus Vrel at Mauritshuis
Patricia Piccinni at Kunsthal
New European Ensemble
Delft Royal Dutch Yeast Factory
Visceral Acts
and much more . . .
March 2023
Lots of Vermeer
The Depot in Rotterdam
NDT1’s In the Dutch Mountains
Opera2Day’s new Don Quixote opera
Prospects at Art Rotterdam
February 2023
Suze Robertson in The Hague
Gustav Klimt in Amsterdam
Jonathan Nagel in Amsterdam
Nicole Beutler Projects
Pinsenhof in Delft and much more . . .
January 2023
Balenciaga at Kunstmuseum in The Hague
Amalia at Museum Prinsenhof in Delft
Kate’s Cafe at Museum Rijswijk
Orange Theatre’s A Christmas Carol
and lots more besides . . .
December 2022
Wonderful Things at Kunsthal, Rotterdam
Pillows Maurits at the Park Hotel in Amsterdam
Marina Abramovic
Amsterdam Light Festival
and lots more . . .
November 2022
Scapino Ballet’s Casablanca
Westfries Museum in Hoorn
True Life by Kalpanarts
Greg Shapiro
NDT’s Now Here, Now Always
and much, much more . . .
