The switch to underglaze painting posed not only technical and artistic challenges but also a chemical one. At Royal Copenhagen, it was the chemical engineer, Adolphe Clement (1860-1933), who...

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

The publication of Piet Mondrian: a Life gives us a radically different picture of world-famous painter and co-founder of De Stijl, Piet Mondrian. Gone is the impression of a lonely, isolated artist...

 

Comprising layer upon layer of fired glaze, the surfaces of Morten Løbner Espersen’s (b. 1965, Aalborg) internationally renowned ceramic objects are a riotous array of colours and textures. The

Marie Kuyken (1898–1988) has remained one of the Netherlands’ most neglected designers, in part because so few of her colourful and imaginative ‘cloisonné panels’ have survived. But that is about to

Franz-W. Kaiser (b. 1957) is leaving his post as head of exhibitions at Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. On 1 June 2016 he will take up the position of artistic director at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg...

‘Outsider art’ is a collective term used to describe authentic works of art produced by off-beat artists who listen only to the voices within themselves. They do not consider the art of the past, they

This summer, the projects room of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag will be the setting for the first museum solo exhibition of the Berlin-based artist Michael Kirkham (b. Blackpool, UK, 1971). Kirkham