Rare toilet services, silver and porcelain tea sets and Mendini’s unique 100% Make Up series of vases will all be on show at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag from 15 March to 12 October 2008. New to the

Every picture tells a story. Why would a person spend his whole life photographing nothing but women’s legs? Who was the mysterious woman known as Taï Aagen-Moro? What’s in Daguerre’s soup? And were

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita grew up in the closed world of Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jewish community. He trained at the city’s school of applied arts and state teachers’ training college.

Having

The exhibition
This exhibition offers a marvellous overview of Dutch interior design in the 1930s. The emphasis is on the tubular steel furniture produced by the D3 company in Rotterdam. Major

“Imagine the life of Frida Kahlo yoked to the eye of Edvard Munch, and you’ll begin to get the measure of this oeuvre…” (The Independent, London, 2003)

This spring the Gemeentemuseum presents the

In the early twentieth century, the resort of Domburg in Zeeland had a strong appeal for well-known Dutch artists like Jan Toorop, Jacoba van Heemskerck and Piet Mondrian. The exhibition at the

It started in the late nineteenth century: an unprecedented explosion of colour used in a completely innovative way. In France, the artists, who included Henri Matisse and Kees van Dongen, were