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With Eva Jospin, the Museum is once again introducing a rising star of the international art world to the Netherlands. With space-filling installations made of simple cardboard, Jospin creates forests, temples, ruins and caves. Eva Jospin: Paper Tales takes the visitor through a fairytale landscape.
On 10th December ten international ballet stars will make the world their stage and join forces to launch a first-of-its kind virtual production in support of a common cause: raising awareness for children in crisis.
Raise the curtain for InterMission – a unique online dance production created to raise funds that will help provide disadvantaged children with a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm in the world’s hardest-to-reach places.
The inauguration didn’t go off with a very big bang though as travel restrictions and quarantine regulations meant the first trains were almost empty. Eurostar has limited the number of services available with only one train running in either direction per day, and no services available over weekends.
LOS ANGELES 13th October 2020 – The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today a landmark acquisition of 39 Dutch drawings, providing a stunning survey of the outstanding artists, styles, genres, and subjects in seventeenth-century art from the Netherlands. The group includes drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob Ruisdael, Gerrit van Honthorst, and many other artists of the “Golden Age” of Dutch art. In addition, the acquisition includes a monumental early watercolor by Piet Mondrian, a panoramic landscape view made in 1901.
Bringing the Ministry’s total spend to $2.2 billion. The additional funding increases culture spending by 6.6 percent. The German federal government has announced that it will increase its culture and media budget by more than €120 million ($140 million) in 2021, bringing the culture ministry’s total budget up to €1.94 billion ($2.26 billion). The plans…
Five months later than planned and ten months after the original planned start date Eurostar will finally launch its direct service from Amsterdam to London on 26th October.
Ticket for the service will go on sale from 1st September, with two services a day starting on 26th October. Ticket prices start at €46 one way.
Direct trains have been running from London to Amsterdam since 2018, but passengers heading for the UK still had to change trains and go through security checks in Brussels south.
Saskia Boddeke, an innovative Dutch multimedia artist in collaboration with Peter Greenaway, a British screenwriter and artist, creates an astonishing area where they try to ask the question Why is it hard to love? Already familiar for the European audience, in Vilnius MO Museum they are representing the frightening dystopias and worries about the future.
by Parikrama Rai of Victory Art in Rotterdam.
The current pandemic has presented us with many challenges: one of which is to stay connected with the world despite being locked in our quickly shrinking homes. The internet has, however, been a blessing during this dark time. For us art enthusiasts especially, it has given us a connection to the inspiring world of art from a safe distance.
