As a person falls asleep, or is dying, artist Mire Lee sees a sculpture emerge. “People are like ‘meat’ in that state. I find that endearing, potentially sad, but also intriguing because only the

At a dinner party, seated around a table beautifully laid with splendid porcelain and silverware, glittering crystal and extravagant centre-pieces, it’s absolutely ‘not done’ to slurp or smack your

From couples in traditional dress dancing on midsummer’s night to a naked blonde woman leading her son through rippling water, the work of Anders Zorn (1860-1920) depicts idyllic scenes that we still

Kunstmuseum Den Haag has purchased The Pillowman (2004), one of the highlights of the oeuvre of Paula Rego (b. 1935, Lisbon). Rego painted The Pillowman after seeing Martin McDonagh’s play of the same...

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag’s new Animals Galore exhibition presents an amazing multiplicity of animals. A sweep of the museum’s rich and varied decorative arts, fashion and sculpture collections has

A hundred years ago, a group of avant-garde young artists working in the north-eastern Dutch province of Groningen founded a collective known as De Ploeg (‘The Plough’).

The group – including Jan

Dirk van Gelder

Dirk van Gelder (1907-1990) was one of the most important Dutch graphic artists of the twentieth century. His unprecedented technical virtuosity places him in the tradition of famous

Twice a year since 2015, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has invited a nationally or internationally known writer to become its ‘writer in residence’. Miek Zwamborn (b. 1974) was the first. With her...