The title of Hot Skillet Mama is a reference to a piece of music by legendary American jazz composer Sun Ra (1914-1993). Hot Skillet Mama’s lyrics express the singer’s desire for a woman, sweating...

The architecture and interiors of De Stijl are famous around the world. Dutch architects and designers like Gerrit Rietveld, Theo van Doesburg, Cornelis van Eesteren and J.J.P. Oud blazed the trail

This early wall plate from 1890 by Carl Frederik Liisberg (1860-1909) shows how this painter experimented with soft contours and blended colours. Bleeding of the painted image during the firing at...

This second exhibition in the Hague School wing focuses on the work of Willem Mesdag. One of the best known artists of the Hague School, Mesdag specialised in seascapes and beach scenes and is

The Gemeentemuseum’s collection of twentieth-century Dutch drawings has recently been enriched by a donation of 50 drawings by Ben Akkerman (1920). In addition, the artist has donated 12 of his early

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

From 2021 GEM museum of contemporary art in The Hague will be known as KM21. KM refers to Kunstmuseum Den Haag, and 21 to the art of the twenty-first century. The new name will make the museum more...

The show tells the professional life story of these inspired and travel-hungry ceramic artists through more than sixty of their works