AMSTERDAM.- This afternoon, the Rijksmuseum handed over a unique loan to the National Maritime Museum in London. After 345 years, the ‘stern carvings decoration’ of the flagship the Royal Charles has been returned to England. In June 1667, th…
The Netherlands Announced as Special Guest at 2012 ARCOmadrid’s Orange Week
MADRID.- Within the framework of Semana Naranja, or Orange Week, organised by the Embassy of the Netherlands, at IED Madrid IFEMA presented the participation of the Netherlands as its Special Guest at the 31st ARCOmadrid, International Contemporary Art…
The BAT Artventure Collection Part Two Realises $ 4,198,489 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- The sale of the world-renowned BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Part Two, realised a total of €2,941,725 / £2,582,732/ $4,198,489, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €1 m…
The BAT Artventure Collection Part Two Realises $ 4,198,489 at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- The sale of the world-renowned BAT ArtVenture Collection, formerly known as The Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Part Two, realised a total of €2,941,725 / £2,582,732/ $4,198,489, a figure well above the pre-sale expectations of €1 m…
Dutch Collectors’s 30,000 Toy Soldiers to Sell at Bonhams
LONDON.- A vast collection of 30,000 toy soldiers accumulated by Dutch collector, Gijs Scholtens, is to be sold at Bonhams, Knowle, as part of its auction of Toys, Dolls and Soldiers on 5 April 2011. Echoing the historic journey of Stadtholder William …
Artist Pat Steir Creates Wall Painting Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art
NEW YORK, NY.- Visible through the Madison Avenue windows of the Whitney Museum of American Art is a vast new wall painting created by artist Pat Steir, commissioned by Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney’s Alice Pratt Brown Director. The painting, whic…
Cecily Brown’s First Ever Solo Exhibition in the Netherlands at GEM Museum of Contemporary Art
THE HAGUE.- The new work of New York-based artist Cecily Brown (b.1969) features a medley of grey, red, orange and earth colours applied with vigorous gestures to canvases of many different sizes. Initially, the explicitly sexual content of her picture…