Acme Studios, Frederikstraat 943 The Hague info@acmesudios.nl ACME STUDIOS opened in The Hague on 25th August with an exhibition by the renowned Dutch photographer, Jan Banning. Acme Studios is a new gallery of art and design that merges contemporary visual art with the functional beauty of vintage typewriters. Acme Studios is the only physical typewriter…
Studio De Gheijnstraat 51, 2562 NL Den Haag The Dutch Don’t Dance Division (DeDDDD) was created twenty years ago in the living room of Thom Stuart and Rinus Sprong. A solid community has now been built up to a community; introduce young children to the stage; dancers in training and recent graduates learn to spread their wings;…
STRAAT NDSM Square 1 1033 WC Amsterdam From Keith Haring to Banksy, street art has made tons of headlines in recent history. Its impact on art, fashion, design, advertising and culture at large is stronger than ever. Enter STRAAT: the museum for street art and graffiti. We aim to share our passion for this radical…
Born five years before the Republic of Turkey was founded, Güler observed a dramatic alteration to the landscape and livelihoods of Istanbul during his lifetime. His photographs taken specifically during the 1950s and 1960s serve as a testament to the hardships Turkey’s working class and the urban poor had to endure during the socio-economic changes.
Travelling the world Güler took pictures both as a straightforward photo journalist and as a war reporter, visiting conflict zones in Eritrea, Sudan, Afgahnistan and Palestine. He also was a society portrait photographer, taking pictures of Brigitte Bardot, Salvador Dali, Sophia Loren and Alfred Hitchcock, to name but a few. And, surprisingly, he also had time to create art photos, producing colour collages and pictures of moving light. All these wonderful pictures are in this excellent two hundred and eight page book.
I have been aware, and a fan, of Emma Rice since I saw her productions many years ago for Kneehigh in the UK of Tristan and Yseult and Brief Encounter and many more since. Her desire, obsession even, to re-interpret well known stories demonstrates an innate talent as theatre-maker. So, it is a rare privilege to see an Emma Rice production, an even rarer one to see one here, which luckily one can now do, thanks to the Holland Festival.
Marnixstraat 127 1015 VK, Amsterdam Tel. 06 50262869 Shortly after its foundation, Oscar van der Voorn met his partner Farud Cambatta in Bombay. A few years later, Farud came to Amsterdam and they have the GO Gallery continued together. In the early 2000’s, van der Voorn and Cambatta came in contact with local and international artists…
The evening was MC’d by the doyen of English language comedy in The Netherlands, American Greg Shapiro. His relaxed, easy-going style got everyone in the mood and this was continued by the first act, Mohna Joshi, an Indian lady of a certain age who one would have thought was a very unlikely candidate for stand-up. But although much of her act was about her sex life and problems distinguishing between her vibrator and the TV remote control . . .
