Figures of the Laughing Buddha: we’ve been crazy about them in the Netherlands for centuries. They originated in China and have been in great demand in Europe since the seventeenth century. Potters

The summer exhibition in the Fashion Gallery of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag features top examples of 20th-century fashion design. Items from the museum’s costume collection are used to highlight the

Contemporary artworks that tell a story, convey an idea or raise a smile. Many people will not immediately associate these characteristics with silver, but the exhibition Silver Art in the Netherlands

Patriotism and heroism were prominent in Dutch military paintings until late in the 19th century. The exhibition Atten-SHUN! shows how the genre changed radically around 1880 under the influence of

The Minimal = More exhibition held at the Gemeentemuseum earlier this year included a 2002 work entitled Coded Language, Hardliner by German artist Frank Gerritz (b. Hamburg, 1964). Gerritz is a

Ever since the end of the 1970s, Sandro Chia has been one of Italy’s leading contemporary painters. He came to prominence as a key figure in the Transavanguardia: a group of Italian Neo-Expressionists

Venice may be famous around the world for its Grand Canal, its Bridge of Sighs and the Piazza San Marco, but for centuries the glorious objects produced by the glassblowers of Murano have brought it