Painter Piet Mondrian was no stern, eccentric hermit who sought refuge in the utopia of his art, as we discover in a new biography of Piet Mondrian. Written by Hans Janssen, Mondrian expert and...

The Gemeentemuseum is holding this major retrospective of Karel Appel's works on paper to mark the artist's eightieth birthday, on 25 April. It includes an outstanding collection of items - 160 in all

In recent years, Dutch fashion designers have been extremely successful both at home and abroad. Now the fashion world is hailing a new generation of creative young designers who have recently

How did people in past centuries cook, eat and sleep in the Netherlands, and where did they work and receive their guests? In short, what were Dutch homes like at that time? This autumn the

Isaac Israels preferred quite different subjects from those painted by his father, the Hague School painter Jozef Israels. Rather than concerning himself with the lives of fisherfolk and farm workers

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 gold leather room and the Gobelin tapestry room of the Gemeentemuseum are about to undergo a complete metamorphosis. As are the Japanese room, the Louis Quinze room, the stucco-work room and the

Full, rounded hips, small breasts, creamy white skin and luxuriant hair. In the sixteenth century that was the archetype of the ideal woman. The female nude is a recurring but ever-changing theme in