articles that do not fall within our usual remit.
The exhibition of Marianne von Werefkin at De Fundatie in Zwolle starts with an intimate painting of Vera Repin knitting a child’s sock. It confirms that Ilja Repin was right in comparing her treatment of chiaroscuro to that of Rembrandt! However, the self-portrait she makes a decade later shows that she is moving away from this academic style of painting more towards impressionism.
Remember George Clooney’s The Monuments Men film? It follows the death-defying escapades of a group of art experts tasked with finding and saving priceless works of art before they are stolen or destroyed by the Nazis. Leonid Marushchak, a 38-year-old historian by training, has taken on a similar task as war rages in his native Ukraine . . .
Scapino Ballet dancer Ashton Benn gives an insider’s view of Ed Wubbe’s final production.
After moving to the Netherlands in July, I was warmly welcomed into the company and tasked with learning the show. Fortunately, many of the dancers and circus performers helped create Oscar in 2022 and had the choreography tucked inside their muscle memories . . .
In this exhibition Mayken Verhulst is finally positioned as the Mater Familias of the Brueghel family. In her day she was well known, for she is mentioned in contemporary sources as one of the most meritorious 16th-century female painters of watercolours, all of which were unfortunately lost . . .
Extracurricular is a feature which enables us to include items that are perhaps outside our normal remit . . . On a recent visit to Brussels I spent an exceptionally entertaining and pleasant evening at the Théâtre Royal de Toone. Hidden down a dark and dingy alley off one of the city’s main shopping streets, and only 100m from the Grande Place , . .
Now, on the face of it, a factory making yeast and methylated spirits may seem an unlikely, even inadmissible candidate for ArtsTalk Magazine – even for our Extracurricular column. The sprawling industrial complex that is the Nederlandsche Gisten en Spiritusfabriek lies between the railway and the canals is not the most beautiful sight in Delft…
The current crisis is only the latest in a series of epidemics that have struck over the centuries. While researching a specific topic for a publication, ArtsTalk Magazine’s Kate came across articles about a mysterious disease that arrived in Groningen in northern Netherlands in 1826. It seemingly arrived out of nowhere and hit the city hard.
Slightly out of the area we normally cover (hence its Extracurricular designation) the Westfries Museum is one of those museums where the building itself is as interesting as its exhibits. In its panelled, oak-beamed rooms and via its steep winding staircases you can feel the concentrated power of the 17th century Dutch, a time of abundance of riches.
