articles that do not fall within our usual remit.
This extraordinary fine art photo project shows women of the floriculture industry with collars made from their own flowers. Marjolein van Ruiten and fine art photographer Marieke Treffers have been looking for women working in this industry to be part of this project since the spring of 2021. The goal, to create twelve extraordinary portraits which show the diversity of the floriculture industry in a new way.
The Spanish Tourist Office in The Hague has been busy this week promoting the cultural aspects of their beautiful country. They were at the Boijmans van Beuningen Depot in Rotterdam to promote Picasso Year 2023 and in Amsterdam to sing the praises of Valencia.
In July three galleries in The Hague, Billytown, Trixie, and Quartair, hosted exhibitions, a symposium, a book launch, workshops, and artist talks under the title Back to Normal. Sonja van Kerkhoff went along to see them for ArtsTalk Magazine
During the first week of September the water sports fair HISWA te Water took place. A versatile outdoor fair with all kinds of boats. Furthermore, themes such as electric sailing and sustainability played a big role. What drew the attention was the area of sustainability, especially the SKOTTI stand where many art-hearts beat a bit faster. . .
For 25 years, dance in all its manifestations has been celebrated during the Dutch Dance Days, with Maastricht as the beating heart of the dance Valhalla. Starting with a single evening in 1997, this anniversary edition (from 30th September to 6th October) promises to be extra special.
We were in Münster the other day, not too far from Enschede, and visited the excellent LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur. After seeing the current Claude Cahun show at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam we were keen to see the exhibition in Münster of another, basically pre-war, female photographer.
The major Alexander Calder exhibition has just finished at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. Sculptor George Rickey met Calder in 1952, and also wrote about his work as a critic. However, Rickey’s oeuvre can be seen as a quest to add where Calder’s formal language left off, using more industrial materials as a reference to constructivism.
We have received another message from Ganna Lavrekha, art critic, curator and member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. She is currently sheltering in Kyiv but managed to get this out.
