articles that do not fall within our usual remit.
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.
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.
Perhaps surprisingly, we are in contact with an art critic and curator in Ukraine. She is in Kyiv sheltering underground dreading the arrival of Russian troops. She has managed to send us a piece about her situation and an appeal from the Union of Artists of Ukraine
Among numerous art galleries in the Netherlands that mostly present contemporary art, a special place belongs to Monasch Fine Art gallery that has its own unique niche and focuses on contemporary figurative art of the Eastern Europe countries.
