Category: Extracurricular

articles that do not fall within our usual remit.

FOR THE RIGHT TO BE FREE – A message from Ukraine

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.

In the 17th century there were few female artists and most of them painted ‘female’ subjects like still lives. Not that they all desperately wanted to paint still lives, but they often had no other choice. Proper training which included studying the human body was out of the question.

On 19th February 2022 a new performance by choreographer Samir Calixto will have its premiere at the Schouwburg De Lawei in Drachten, The Netherlands. DIDO ÆNEAS US & ALL is the first production of Matter Affects, an initiative by Samir Calixto and Stacz Wilhelm, former artistic director of the dance production house Korzo in The…

Curbing Traffic: the Human Case for fewer cars in our lives – Melissa and Chris Bruntlett

Mobility experts, Melissa and Chris Bruntlett, moved with their family to Delft just three years ago from Vancouver, Canada. A life-long love of cycling and bike culture inspired a trip to Rotterdam in 2016 and they never looked back. I spoke with Melissa in Delft about their second recently published book on the topic of…

This year marks the first-ever CloverMill artist residency. Maltese artist Gabriel Buttigieg and Russian artist Julia Kiryanova were both selected by independent Irish artist Jennifer Smith to spend two weeks at CloverMill to work on their art in a tranquil, remote setting. CloverMill is an old water windmill, situated in Giessenburg about 15kms east of Dordrecht

Data is part of our everyday lives. Indeed, its presence is so ubiquitous that those in the know now speak of datafication. This refers to the transformation of every aspect of our lives into data points that will be processed to make predictions about our lives and behaviour. The Orwellian nature of such processes is…