We are inclined to pass snap judgments on other people. We quickly form an opinion on the basis of their appearance or behaviour. The beautiful but discomfiting paintings of Dutch artist Ad Gerritsen

The Gemeentemuseum has a unique collection of Dutch ceramics, including some fine examples of earthenware from Potterie Kennemerland, one of the few manufacturers in the interwar period to focus

The Gemeentemuseum’s new book Music for the Eye features a hand-picked selection of top items from the museum’s extensive music collection. It contains descriptions and illustrations of fifty-three

One is a Minimalist artist who has reduced painting to repeated, regularly spaced imprints of a n° 50 paintbrush, the other a conceptual artist who began his career as a scientist. Niele Toroni (b

A new presentation of works from the Gemeentemuseum’s 19th-century Hague School collection, now back in the museum following a tour of venues outside the Netherlands. The new selection on display

The Maris Brothers
To coincide with the exhibition about the Oyens brothers, the Gemeentemuseum is organising a display of work by the Maris brothers. The presentation will show that each of the three

A new art for a new, improved society. That is what many artists and designers were seeking around 1900. After a century of styles that literally quoted the past, a new form language emerged, based on

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