Starting on 13 June, the Gemeentemuseum is holding an exhibition looking at the Hague School from a completely new angle. The show focuses primarily on the symbolism and meaning of the paintings and

A nuclear bomb seems to have been dropped in this installation by artist Bouke de Vries. The eight-metre table, with a mushroom cloud as its centrepiece, is the scene of a fierce battle: thousands of

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

Ever since the early 1960s, Arnulf Rainer (b. 1929) has been collecting Outsider Art: work by people on the fringes of society, including psychopaths, schizophrenics and other mentally ill people. The

This autumn, with over a hundred masterpieces of Finnish Symbolist and Expressionist art from the period around 1900, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag presents an area of European art as yet undiscovered

We are familiar with the clichés surrounding the emergence of Impressionism. The Impressionists are believed to have broken radically with tradition, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to their

As 1 July rapidly approaches, Dutch smokers view the prospect with trepidation. From that date, they will no longer be allowed to smoke in bars and restaurants, because staff working there also have a

The Moser glass factory in Bohemia is best known in the Netherlands for the unique pieces made there for Chris Lebeau between 1926 and 1929. But Moser, founded in 1857, has been one of the leading