‘This was the chance of a lifetime’, says director Benno Tempel of the museum’s acquisition of two seventeenth-century Delftware flower pyramids. ‘Very few flower pyramids have survived intact over...

For more than two years, the Belin-based Dutch composer-artist William Engelen (1964) has immersed himself in the Kunstmuseum’s rich collection of musical instruments, its art collection and the

Out of the shadow across her face, Paula Modersohn Becker regards us with a steady gaze. She painted Self-portrait with Hat and Veil in the early years of the twentieth century, after a period of

Longread, reading time approx. 10 minutes I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like...

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has an extensive library and a documentation department that focus on the museum’s collection. The library documents both the history of the museum and its collection. The...

Major retrospective of work by the leading exponent of Flemish Expressionism: Constant Permeke (1886 -1952). His paintings generally depict working-class people - seamen, farmworkers and miners –

‘I am clay’. This statement by the ceramicist Vilma Henkelman (1944-2023) makes it clear how much she identified with this material. Informed by feminism, Henkelman freed clay from connotations of

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