Kunstmuseum Den Haag has a treasure chamber of over 160.000 pieces of art. Here we work on making the highlights from this collection available online.
Think of 19th-century Romantic painting and you think of artists like Caspar David Friedrich, Eugène Delacroix and William Turner, who produced paintings full of wild countryside and violent emotion
Since the 1980s female artists have transformed figurative painting. Their portraits address contemporary social problems and issues concerning gender, religion, racism and sexuality, and respond to
Only a handful of fashion houses belong to the select world of haute couture. Membership of the Chambre syndicale de la haute couture, which was established in 1868, is an exclusive honour subject to
Two intensely yellow aluminium walls and floor, and a brightly coloured metal stand: the latest work of Ton Boelhouwer (The Hague, 1960) could be a minimalist theatre décor. Unsurprisingly, Boelhouwer
In art, a romantic landscape traditionally evokes melancholy and stimulates the imagination, with dense forests and inhospitable mountains interspersed by serene meadows, all rendered with technical
The first ever Dutch retrospective of work by Gustavs Klucis (a.k.a. Gustav Klutsis, 1895 – 1938) goes on show soon in the print room of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Klucis was taught by Kazimir
The ‘Little Black Dress’, the Chanel suit and Chanel No. 5 – all still part of today’s universal fashion vocabulary. The designs of Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel (1883-1971) revolutionised the way women
