MADRID.- PHotoEspaña awards nine prizes every edition which recognise the Festival’s best exhibitions, the year’s most outstanding publications and the professional path of Spanish and international photographers, both well-known and emergin…
The Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris Offers a Fresh Appreciation of Kees Van Dongen
PARIS.- The Musée d’Art Moderne offers a fresh appreciation of Kees Van Dongen (1877–1968), the dazzling, disconcerting painter who made his reputation in Paris in the 1920s. This is a comprehensive look at a multifaceted personality: the so…
The Peanut-Butter Platform by Wim T. Schippers at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ROTTERDAM.- An exhibition centred around the controversial ‘Peanut-Butter Platform’ by Wim T. Schippers opens during the Rotterdam Museum Night. This is the first time that the floor sculpture, which was recently acquired by the museum, has b…
Bumper Year for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ROTTERDAM.- For Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen an extraordinarily successful year has drawn to a close. More than 320,000 people visited the 30-plus presentations that the museum organised in its own building and on location. The museum made exceptional…
Johan Thorn Prikker: Beyond Art Nouveau at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ROTTERDAM.- This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is showing more than 200 highlights from the multifaceted oeuvre of Johan Thorn Prikker (1868-1932). This is the first major exhibition devoted to one of the most prominent designers from the heyday…
First Retrospective of Designer Hella Jongerius at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ROTTERDAM.- This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is presenting the first retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands of the designer Hella Jongerius. It is a unique survey of her working practices, experiments and innovative products. The exhibiti…
All Eyes on Kees van Dongen in Exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ROTTERDAM.- Painter, society artist and womanizer, Kees van Dongen painted the Parisian avant-garde nude or clothed. This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents a selection of sixty masterpaintings from international collections. His models dres…
Public Allowed to See Restoration of Dalí Painting at Museum in Rotterdam
ROTTERDAM.- Have you ever seen a famous painting being restored? This summer the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is letting everyone enjoy a process that is usually carried out behind closed doors. From mid-June the enornous painting Landscape with a Gir…
Han Nefkens Donates Pipilotti Rist’s Video-Installation Double Light to Fundació Joan Miró
BARCELONA.- The video-installation Double Light – a dialogue between Pipilotti Rist and Joan Miró – will be added to the Joan Miró Foundation’s collection as a result of a donation by writer and art collector Han Nefkens. This gift is…