Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has purchased a key work by American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988). Thek painted the piece, entitled Farewell to Washington Square (Self-Portrait), in 1972, shortly before...

Austrian artist Egon Schiele’s intriguing Portrait of Edith (1915) is the point of departure for Edith as Muse, a project by Puck Verkade (b. The Hague, 1987).

Timeless, trailblazing, elegant and influential – the designs of Christian Dior (1905-1957) are all of these. Just after the Second World War, he established his own house in Paris, which soon became

Rosemin Hendriks (Velp, 1968) uses faces – generally her own – as the starting point for her works. Each face is drawn, in mainly linear fashion, using charcoal and Conté on a large sheet of paper

Malachi Farrell’s room-size installations are reminiscent of the kinetic machines devised by Jean Tinguely. But whereas the purpose of Tinguely’s machines was primarily aesthetic, Farrell endows his

In the 1970s, the windows of Oey Tjeng Sit’s pharmacy on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam were a well-known phenomenon. Artist-dispenser Oey Tjeng Sit (1917-1987) used them to create light-hearted

Norbert Schwontkowski (1949-2013) is perhaps one of Germany’s best kept secrets. Yet these days his poetic work is gradually attracting more and more admirers outside his homeland. Inspired by Zen

The first ever presentation of modern glass from the Czech Republic and Slovakia in any Dutch museum. Thanks to the loan of a major private collection, the Gemeentemuseum is now in a position to