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Discover the world of Royal Delft

Blue Paintbrushes carefully touch the white earthenware, whilst elsewhere clay is poured into handmade moulds. It is here, at Royal Delft, that craftsmen have…

Wanderlust 2019

Let curiosity be your guide When: 26 oct 2019 from 17:00h-00:00 Where: Zuiderstrandtheater, The Hague Saturday 26 October 2019 will see the second edition…

Fifth edition festival Wonderfeel: experience classical music in the outdoors

Wonderfeel is the biggest outdoor festival for classical music in the Netherlands. This year’s festival will take place from July 19th to July 21st,…

Jewels! Glittering at the Russian court

From 14 September 2019 until 15 March 2020, tens of thousands of precious gems will sparkle at the Hermitage Amsterdam. From agate to zirconium,…

Hightlights exhibition programme 2019 Kröller Müller Museum

Need an escape from the bustle of the city; looking to enjoy a perfect blend of art and nature? Visit the Kröller-Müller Museum in…

Holland Festival 2019

Since 1947, the Holland Festival is the leading international performing arts festival in the Netherlands. The festival offers a broad scope of international performing…

10 years of Cineville!

Cineville is 10 years old and celebrates film! On Sunday 24 March, you will see the most talked-about films from the past 10 years…

Erwin Olaf in the Hague

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and The Hague Museum of Photography are to honour one of the Netherlands’ most famous photographers, Erwin Olaf (b. 1959), with…

The Barraud brothers in Museum MORE

They are probably the best kept secret of Switzerland: the Barraud brothers. Four brothers in art. Four very talented painters within one family. A…

Movies that Matter Festival 2019

Feel free to open your mind at the at the Movies that Matter Festival! The annual international fi lm and debate festival on human…

The IamExpat Fair Amsterdam, 2019

Looking for a new job? Need mortgage advice? Looking for a good school or day-care for your kids? Want to enrol in a quality…

TEFAF Maastricht: one of the most powerful art networks in the world

Edition 1 February 2019 The most important art event annually in the Dutch calendar is TEFAF Maastricht. This Fair is organized by The European…

Beautiful Boy (movie)

Edition 1 February 2019, by Benjamin Roberts In 2017, more than 72,000 deaths in the US were caused by a drug overdoses. One of…

Rembrandt and Saskia. Love and Marriage in the Dutch Golden Age (expo)

Edition 1 February, by Benjamin Roberts When it comes to Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) and locations in the Netherlands, we usually think of Leiden,…

GIVEAWAY FOR A VISIT AT THE FRANS HALS MUSEUM

Complete the form below and win two free tickets for the exhibition Hals meets Manet, Singer Sargent and van Gogh at the Frans Hals…

Minnie Mouse as Muse (exhibition)

Edition 28 December 2018, by Benjamin Roberts Robert J. Halls exposition in Amsterdam’s GO Gallery What do Walt Disney’s Minnie Mouse and Marie-Antoinette have…

Cool Japan in het Tropenmuseum

Edition 28 December 2018 Cool Japan showcases the world’s fascination with all things Japanese. From Hello Kitty to samurai and from well-known Japanese horror…

The international mix of BRAVA

The Brussels Art Fair (BRAFA), created in 1956, is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious art fairs, famous for the high-quality fine…

Co Westerik – Everyday Wonder in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

The artist Co Westerik was born on 2 March 1924 in The Hague, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK)….

A year of laughs

Edition 28 December, by James Luxford 2019’s set to be a year of comedy with the many English language comedians coming to The Netherlands….

Hals meets Manet, Singer Sargent and van Gogh

The sensational major exhibition Frans Hals and the Moderns in the Frans Hals Museum will be the first time that Frans Hals’ paintings have…

Experience Leeuwarden-Friesland, European Capital of Culture 2018

The North of the Netherlands is vibrant. Together with the province of Friesland, the city of Leeuwarden bears the honourable title of European Capital…

80 important aquisitions for 40 Dutch museums in a single exhibition

On the initiative of the Rembrandt Association, the Kröller-Müller Museum is organizing the exhibi tion For the love of art. Just once, more than…

Amsterdam contemporary art front-runner

Seventh edition of Amsterdam Art Weekend from 22 – 25 November Throughout the Amsterdam Art Weekend, from 22-25 November, Amsterdam is all about contemporary…

Path to the Present (exhibition)

Edition 30 October 2018, by Benjamin Roberts Today in the Netherlands, one of the most secular countries in Europe, there are more than 2…

Ancient Persian artefacts on display (exhibition)

Edition 30 August 2018, by Pejman Akbarzadeh For the first time after the 1979 Revolution, a huge collection of Iran’s National Museum is on…

Het Scheepvaartmuseum opens new exhibition on passenger ship Oranje

‘This is set to be the most entrancing fivestar exhibition of the spring, possibly even the whole year.’ (De Huisarts, medical newspaper, Belgium) On…

The Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht

Edition 30 August 2018 The Netherlands Film Film Festival is both the home of Dutch cinema and the leading platform for the Netherlands’ national…

Koos Breukel / Son in Huis Marseille

Edition 30 August 2018 The Dutch portrait photographer Koos Breukel, whose oeuvre is held in high regard both in the Netherlands and abroad, has…

On Chesil Beach (movie)

Edition 29 May 2018, by James Luxford For those who follow the awards scene, a prestige drama being released in the spring or summer…

Royal Delft: 365 years of inspiration and innovation

Paintbrushes carefully touch the white earthenware, whilst elsewhere clay is poured into handmade moulds. It is here, at Royal Delft, that craftsmen have been…

Foam presents the work of photographer Daniëlle van Ark in the exhibition Artist’s Proof

For Dutch artist Daniëlle van Ark (1974) photography is the most ephemeral of all media. With the development of steadily more advanced reproduction technologies,…

Saudade: the expatriate archive centre’s 10th anniversary

Moving abroad can challenge the meaning of home, open new horizons, and change us as people. At the very least, it inevitably results in…

Film about the life and work of ESCHER

Edition 26 April 2018, by Nanda Jagusiak Journey to infinity – 2018 Leeuwarden Cultural Capital of Europe Maurits Cornelis ESCHER (1898 – 1972) is one…

Rijksmuseum receives core collection Erwin Olaf

Edition 28 June 2018 The Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf this week donated to the Rijksmuseum his core collection, the fully representative range of work…

Light paintings by Maryolga Nieto at Hop & Stork

One of the first expressions of dissemination of this contribution to contemporary art currently presented by artist Maryolga Nieto in the gastronomic-cultural space “Hop…

A swifter shock of beauty…

Edition 28 June 2018, by Caroline de Westenholz, director Louis Couperus Museum Louis Couperus and the art of sculpture: New exhibition in Louis Couperus…

Kröller Müller Museum

An unforgettable experience The Kröller-Müller Museum is a place where things of beauty come together. The unique combination of art, nature and architecture guarantees…

Meet the world at the Movies that Matter Festival

Edition 22 March 2018 You’ll get to meet people from all over the world, talk to inspiring activists, see interesting documentaries and revealing fiction…

Mesdag & Japan: Collecting the Far East

Edition 22 March 2018 Mesdag’s extraordinary collection of Japanese decorative art: from samurai swords and Satsuma vases to colourful earthenware and bronze cranes. Exhibition…

Paradiso, Amsterdam’s temple of pop culture turns 50

By Benjamin B. Roberts If the 1960s Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll generation, Flower Power, and counter culture movement could all be rolled…

The Passion 2018: “I see you”

Edition 22 March 2018, by Femke van Iperen Diversity and resilience in the Bijlmer The eighth edition of The Passion will take place on…

Tell Freedom. 15 South African artists

Edition 28 December 2017 The exhibition Tell Freedom comprises new and existing work by fifteen young artists from South Africa. In it, they reflect…

The art of laughter: humour in the Golden Age

Click here and win free tickets for this exhibition Rarely have more humorous paintings been produced than in the Dutch Golden Age. Naughty children,…

Opening ‘Heaven or Hell?’

An exhibition on extraordinary 95% of Dutch women feel more confident when wearing a pair of beautiful shoes. However, an average of 23 pairs…

The fascinating underwater photos of Harry Fayt

Edition 26 January 2018 With success, the Belgian photographer Harry Fayt made the switch to underwater photography a few years ago. His work consists…

Food trends 2018

Edition 26 January, by Seringe S.T. Touray When tea first seeped into Europe from China in the 17th Century, nobody knew it would become…

50 years of Austrian tradition in the Netherlands: The Vienna Ball on 9 February 2018 in Grand Hotel Huis ter Duin, Noordwijk

Each year more than 450 balls take place in Vienna. The best time of the year begins for ball-goers and dance fans on 11…