Sally Mann

Sally Mann at the Fotomuseum The Hague.
A retrospective: The children, the landscape and the death.

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Michael Raedecker comes to The Hague

Gem shows since yesterday recent embroidery-paintings by Michael Raedecker.
One of the big ones.

Towel or kitchen towel?

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1 Year Sculpture Club

The Sculpture Club of the Museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague celebrate its first year.

Roos van Put gives (secret) inside information on the art world and 'her' magazine KunstBeeld.

The exhibiton of Marino Marini and Giacomo Manzu nearly ready for the opening on Friday.
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XXth Century

XXth Century, Art exhibition at Gemeente Museum in The Hague.

8 November 2008 - 1 March 2009
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Detail Piet Mondrian

Detail Egon Schiele

Wim Schumacher

Thornsten Brinkmann / Gerd Arntz

Rodin / Monet

Ambitious title for the exhibition. Many of my favorite works from the museum are present, some fine new works and depending on the taste, there are also a few disappointing surprises.

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From the museum site:
"For the first time in its history, the Gemeentemuseum presents a vast display of modern and contemporary art filling two whole floors of its main building. The new exhibition, entitled XXth Century, uses both major historical events like the Wall Street Crash and the Russian revolution and lesser ones like the arrival of the steam railway on Walcheren to suggest the background against which untiring artistic experimentation constantly transformed the face of Western art."

Museum Art Clubs: Mauritshuis and Beelden aan Zee

Here you can find more information on the recent activities of the Young Friends of the Museum Mauritshuis and of the Sculpture Club from the Museum Beelden aan Zee, both in The Hague.

Our guide in front of Vermeer's View of Delft.

Architect Wim Quist talking to Sculpture Club members.

Erwin Olaf at the Museum of Photography

Last Saturday was the opening of Erwin Olaf's last series of photographs at the Fotomuseum:

Rain, Hope Grief & Fall
27 September 2008 - 18 January 2009

With their averted eyes half open, staring into nothingness, the models in the photographs in Erwin Olaf’s latest series, Fall, evoke a strange kind of aloofness. The portraits are interspersed with still lifes of plants and flowers in simple ceramic vases. With its use of colour, the strange, almost awkward expressions on the faces of the models and the almost unreal setting, the series Fall is in some ways the logical successor to the earlier series Grief, Hope and Rain. This autumn, all four will be on display together for the first time in a retrospective at The Hague Museum of Photography (Fotomuseum).

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Gem and Foto Museum: new exhibitions

Highly recommended exhibitions to be seen until October/November.
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Thornsten Brinkmann

Sebastian Gogel

Enrique Marty

Martin Eder

The Empty Paradise (mainly) photographic exhibition.
Gem Museum.

From Museum Beelden aan Zee

Invitation to the sculpture exhibition: Against Nature at Museum Beelden aan Zee in The Hague.
Just opened.
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Green is not only green.

I remember when I had my new camera K1000, I was about 13 or 14 years old, and I went taking photos in Chapultepec park. At the end I only took one photo, and I knew that wouldn't be a good photo, it was just not to come back empty handed. I only could see green. I could had not been able to make one of this beautiful and detailed compositions like the painters Beatriz Padilla (1) and Lucien Freud(2). Their interpretation of the nature is so different but there is something very similar in the composition. You can see them both now in The Hague, Padilla at Artana gallery and Freud at the Gemeente Museum.