Fine dining is a form of sensory seduction. It operates not only via the taste buds, but also via the visual appeal of the food and table setting. Beautiful porcelain and silverware, glittering

Six centuries of art under one roof: a hundred highlights of the Mauritshuis are currently on exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.

In Chinese culture mountains have provided a source of inspiration for thousands of years. The contemporary work of Dutch ceramicist Babs Haenen, who celebrates her 75th birthday this year, is

During the second half of the 19th century, foreign artists flocked to the Netherlands. Favourite subjects were the Dutch fishing villages and their picturesque inhabitants, but the cities, provincial

They were eager to present themselves as the prophets of a new, modern kind of art. Their heroes were Cézanne and the masters of the Japanese woodblock print, but above all their guru, Gauguin. They

This presentation marks last year’s major donation to the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag of a fine collection of porcelain boxes, bowls and dishes by artist Leen Quist (b. 1942). The collection was put

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

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