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Two intensely yellow aluminium walls and floor, and a brightly coloured metal stand: the latest work of Ton Boelhouwer (The Hague, 1960) could be a minimalist theatre décor. Unsurprisingly, Boelhouwer
Kunstmuseum Den Haag has a treasure chamber of over 160.000 pieces of art. Here we work on making the highlights from this collection available online.
Two intensely yellow aluminium walls and floor, and a brightly coloured metal stand: the latest work of Ton Boelhouwer (The Hague, 1960) could be a minimalist theatre décor. Unsurprisingly, Boelhouwer
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
Katarzyna Kobro (1898-1951) & Władysław Strzemiński (1893-1952) met during the turbulent years that followed the October Revolution in Russia in 1917. Their paths crossed in Moscow. Kobro – a Russian
Sparkling colours and gossamer lines – the glassblowers, potters and ceramic painters of the Italian Renaissance produced the most marvellous things. It was a flourishing time of great technological
Marc Mulders’ (b. 1958) studio is a barn in the middle of a field of flowers. As he stands painting in the doorway, bees buzz and butterflies flit around his easel. Mulders calls his garden ‘my own
His provocative actions of the 1960s caused chaos and violent indignation in the narrow-minded, religious, conservative Austria of the period. Günter Brus (b. 1938) has never lost the resulting
To coincide with the current highly successful Mondrian in Cologne exhibition – already attended by over 100,000 people – a new book has been published entitled Mondriaan. Collectie Gemeentemuseum Den
The gently rounded, playful shapes in shades of white and pale pink look almost cuddly. For his Sculptissimo series, Hans Hovy (b. Amsterdam, 1953) has chosen to use two soft, translucent types of