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

The winner of this year’s Ouborg Prize is André Kruysen (b. 1967). For his exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Kruysen has decided to create a site-specific installation taking as its point of

Last year, the Gemeentemuseum and publishers Leopold launched a special series of children’s art books. As they appear, each book is the subject of an exhibition. The present show features not just

In 1981-1982 Ben Akkerman (1920-2010) painted a monochrome, diamond-shaped canvas in yellow. From close it is possible to see how he applied the paint layer by layer. From 6 July this work will be on

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

Matthias Weischer
Once again, the Gemeentemuseum presents a solo exhibition by an outstanding artist representing developments in contemporary German painting: this time, Matthias Weischer (b. 1973

Towards the end of the 19th century, artists turned their backs on history painting in favour of landscape, previously regarded as an inferior genre. In France, the Barbizon School emerged as artists

Juul Kraijer (b. Assen, 1970) makes elegant, calligraphic drawings reminiscent of Indian miniatures. All of them show more or less the same female model, her body depicted approximately life-size