Attracted by the life of the fishing folk, the emerging bathing culture and, above all, the magnificent interplay of light, sky and water, artists like Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, Anton Mauve and the

Earlier this year the third season of Project Rembrandt was transmitted on Dutch TV. The show is a search for the best amateur painter in the Netherlands. One of the contestants this season was...

In the face of every movement that swept the art world during the first half of the twentieth century, Belgian artist Jean Brusselmans (1884 - 1953) constructed an obstinately idiosyncratic oeuvre

Isaac Israels preferred quite different subjects from those painted by his father, the Hague School painter Jozef Israels. Rather than concerning himself with the lives of fisherfolk and farm workers

Each year since 1997 a group of secondary school pupils has put together an exhibition at the Volksbuurtmuseum. They display their own paintings and written work, together with items from the

The Case for Intuition is the first exhibition organised at the museum by Wim van Krimpen, who became Director of the Gemeentemuseum on 1 September. The exhibition is a personal statement by Van

The gold leather room and the Gobelin tapestry room of the Gemeentemuseum are about to undergo a complete metamorphosis. As are the Japanese room, the Louis Quinze room, the stucco-work room and the

Parallel to its ‘Vases with Spouts’ exhibition, the Gemeentemuseum presents a series of impressive photographs in which Michael Wesely (b. 1963, Munich) has explosively recorded the whole process of