Rare toilet services, silver and porcelain tea sets and Mendini’s unique 100% Make Up series of vases will all be on show at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag from 15 March to 12 October 2008. New to the

Less than five centimetres in diameter, yet quite unique: a lidded jar made of imperial Chinese glass. This world heritage in miniature, which is frequently used in books and articles as an example of

Birds that become fish, water that flows uphill, two hands drawing each other: with consummate skill, M.C. Escher would transform a blank sheet of paper into his own infinite worlds where he would

Mischa Andriessen is the Gemeentemuseum’s latest writer in residence. ‘I want to link the visual arts with other forms of art, like poetry’, he says. ‘My hope is that my residency at the...

The extraordinary work of Belgian artist Walter Swennen (b. 1946) is deeply rooted in language. At a very early age, he developed a great sensitivity to the spoken and written word. This was a

In the nineteenth century people still lived by the seasons. Whether it was summertime or wintertime did not matter, many people simply had to work outside whatever the weather. Between 1860 and 1900

Originally a member of the Arte Povera movement, Italian artist Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) soon went his own way. From the 1970s he became famous for his whimsical, colourful embroideries which he

Een indrukwekkend overzicht van het grafisch oeuvre van deze Belgische kunstenaar