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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Annet Gelink Gallery
Italian Open!
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Laurierstraat 187-189 Amsterdam NL-1016
Tel: +31 20 3302066 Website
De Nieuwe Kerk
Oman
Dates: 17 Oct 09 - 18 Apr 10
Categories: Archaeology & Ancient art
Address: Dam Square, Amsterdam Amsterdam 1015 BC
Tel: +31 (0)20 638 6909 Website
Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam
Sanne Sannes: Darkness and Light
Dates: 30 Oct 09 - 9 Dec 09
Categories: Photography
Address: Keizergracht 609 Amsterdam 1017
Tel: +31 (0)20 551 6500 Website
Galerie Juliette Jongma
Karen Sargsyan
Dates: 7 Nov 09 - 23 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Gerard Doustraat 128-A Amsterdam 1073 VX
Tel: +31 (0)20 463 69 04 Website
Galerie Paul Andriesse
Vincenzo Castella / Jan van de Pavert
Dates: 23 Oct 09 - 28 Nov 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Gebouw Detroit, Withoedenveem Amsterdam 1019 HE
Tel: +31 (0)20 623 6237 Website
Hermitage Amsterdam
At the Russian Court: Palace and Protocol in the 19th Century
Dates: 20 Jun 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Design
Decorative
Address: Amstel 51 Amsterdam 11675
Tel: +31-20-5308755 Website
This huge exhibition—featuring more than 2,000 objects on loan from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg—inaugurates the Russian museum’s Amsterdam’s home in the newly restored 17th-century Amstelhof (now the Hermitage’s sole foreign exhibition centre). The space has been designed by the architectural firm Merkx+Girod to give an impression of the splendour of public rooms in which the court met in the royal palaces in St Petersburg and Moscow. Russia vacillated in
the 19th century between Francophile and “native” Slavic and Byzantine poles: the court fashioned its taste on European or national styles and more often than not a combination of the two. The tsars patronised artists and craftsmen from Italy, France and Germany, and British gardeners to ensure that the Russian court kept pace with developments in western Europe, and a succession of German tsarinas ensured a regular flow of works by Romantic and Nazarene artists. In the court costumes and furniture we see the native adaptation of the same sequence of styles seen elsewhere—neo-classical, Egyptian, Gothic revival and art nouveau. In this show are ball gowns and uniforms, jewellery by Fabergé, court paintings, furniture, silver, clocks and watches and Sèvres and other porcelain dinner services. D.L.
A. Malyukov, after original by Franz Krüger, Alexandra Feodorovna, 1836.
Museum Van Loon
Jurriaan Andriessen
Dates: 2 Oct 09 - 4 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Keizersgracht 672 Amsterdam 1017 ET
Tel: Website
Rembrandt House Museum (Rembrandthuis)
Old Love, New Directions: 20 years Collecting for the Rembrandt House
Dates: 11 Sep 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Curious
Address: Jodenbreestraat 4-6 Amsterdam 1011 NK
Tel: +31 (0)20 520 0400 Website
Rijksmuseum
Drawings by Jacob Cats
Dates: 1 Sep 09 - 30 Nov 09
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Jan Luijkenstraat 1 Amsterdam 107 ZD
Tel: +31 (0)20 674 7000 Website
Hendrick Avercamp: the Little Ice Age
Dates: 20 Nov 09 - 15 Feb 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Jan Luijkenstraat 1 Amsterdam 107 ZD
Tel: +31 (0)20 674 7000 Website
Forty-five of Hendrick Avercamp’s paintings and drawings have been assembled for this show of chaotic and bustling winter scenes of people enjoying the frozen rivers and canals that came to typify 17th-century Dutch winter landscapes. The 20 paintings on show are supplemented by 25 of Avercamp’s drawings, the works having been loaned by such museums as the National Gallery, London, the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition is the first to be devoted to Avercamp’s works.
After studying with the Danish portrait painter Pieter Isaacks (1569-1625) in Amsterdam, Avercamp (1585-1634) moved to Kampen in 1608 where his winter scenes found great popularity. This exhibition, however, also includes works that shed light on other more surprising areas of his oeuvre. The drawings on show include summer landscape studies, depictions of 17th-century workers and costume sketches that often appear in subsequent paintings. These less well known graphic works show Avercamp, say the show’s organisers, at his “most varied and adventurous”.
The show, which travels to the National Gallery of Art, Washington (21 March-5 July 2010), is accompanied by the publication of Hendrick Avercamp, Master of the Ice Scene, edited by Pieter Roelofs, and published by Nieuw Amsterdam (€29.95). The museum is launching a special programme for deaf and hard of hearing visitors to coincide with the exhibition. Hendrick Avercamp was himself deaf and mute.
Winter Landscape with Skaters (detail), about 1608.
Rijksmuseum Schiphol
Bonnefanten at Schiphol: Brueghel in Business
Dates: 1 Nov 09 - 31 Jan 10
Categories: Old Master
Address: Schiphol Airport Amsterdam
Tel: +31 (0)20 674 7000 Website
Van Gogh Museum
Alfred Stevens
Dates: 18 Sep 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Paulus Potterstraat 7 Amsterdam 1070 CX
Tel: +31 (0)20 570 5200 Website
Van Gogh’s Letters: the Artist Speaks
Dates: 9 Oct 09 - 3 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Paulus Potterstraat 7 Amsterdam 1070 CX
Tel: +31 (0)20 570 5200 Website
This exhibition celebrates the publication of definitive, six-volume edition of the artist’s correspondence (see p49). The Van Gogh Museum is marking the book launch by showing 120 letters, nearly all from the family collection. These are rarely exhibited, for conservation reasons, and never have so many been on show before. Three recently acquired letters with sketches addressed to Van Gogh’s artist friend Emile Bernard are being lent by the Morgan Library in New York.
Presented in the museum’s original Rietveld building, the letters are shown alongside paintings from the permanent collection. Altogether there are 340 artworks, including The Potato Eaters and The Bedroom. Light levels will be lowered for the works on paper, with the paintings spotlit, giving a different feel to a museum that is normally filled with daylight. The display of letters will also flow over into the print gallery.
Some of the letters include small drawings (above). Once Van Gogh became a full-time artist he would make rough sketches of his pictures to show his brother Theo what he was working on. The letters, mostly in Dutch and French, provide an intimate and revealing account of his development as an artist.
Another show (with almost completely different artworks) will be presented at the Royal Academy, London (“The Real Van Gogh: the Artist and his Letters”), from 23 January-
18 April 2010. Martin Bailey
Cleveland, USA
Cleveland Museum of Art
Paul Gauguin: Paris, 1889
Dates: 4 Oct 09 - 18 Jan 10
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland 44106-1797
Tel: +1 216 421 7340 Website
A survey of symbolist artist Paul Gauguin opens at the Cleveland Museum of Art before it travels to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam next year. The show partially recreates the exhibition that Gauguin and his contemporaries independently organised in the Café Volpini, Paris, during the Exposition Universelle, or World’s Fair. Around 75 works from that show are reunited for the first time in more than a century, along with works on paper, woodcarvings and ceramics.
London, United Kingdom
National Gallery
Kienholz: the Hoerengracht
Dates: 18 Nov 09 - 21 Feb 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Trafalgar Square London WC2 5DN
Tel: +44 (0)20 7747 2885 Website
The Hoerengracht (Whore’s Canal) is a dark, intricate, large-scale installation work by US artists Ed Kienholz (1927-94) and his wife Nancy Reddin Kienholz (b1943). The piece, made between 1983 and 1988, has been shown in venues around the world since 1989, but never before in London.
The walk-through installation, which evokes Amsterdam’s Red Light District through a series of dense assemblages, is staged in the National Gallery’s Sunley Room, a temporary exhibition space that holds a series of contemporary shows that connect with the permanent collection of the museum. In this case the work is being shown in relation to 17th-century Dutch paintings, including Jan Steen’s Interior of an Inn, 1665-70, and Pieter de Hooch’s A Musical Party in a Courtyard, 1677. “This connection is important,” Colin Wiggins, curator of the exhibition, told The Art Newspaper. “The National Gallery collection ends at 1900. For a younger audience, this can make the collection seem remote and inaccessible. Contemporary exhibitions that show the connection between the old and the new help to bridge that gap and can help to introduce a younger audience to the richness of the collection.”
Wiggins believes that the Sunley Room is the perfect location for such shows as it is “right in the centre of the National Gallery, sandwiched between Velázquez and the Italian Renaissance. We don’t want to show contemporary work, for example, in a back corridor disconnected from the collection,” he said. “The National Gallery is a living collection and continues to inspire today’s art. It is not a collection of old dead fossils.”
The last major Kienholz show in London was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1971. “Since then this city has been strangely neglectful,” said Wiggins. We all know about Picasso, Duchamp, Pollock and Warhol, but I have become convinced that Kienholz is similarly one of the defining names of the 20th century.” The show is supported by the Outset Contemporary Art Fund.
New York, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaid
Dates: 10 Sep 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Old Master
Address: 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street New York 10028-0198
Tel: +1 212-535-7710 Website
The Milkmaid, 1658, perhaps the most celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer, goes on Vermeer’s Masterpiece The Milkmaiddisplay in the US for the first time in 70 years. The work is being loaned to the Metropolitan Museum by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, to mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage from that city to New York. The exhibition places the painting alongside all five of the Metropolitan’s canvases by Vermeer together with engravings and drawings illuminating the theme, as well as works by other Delft artists including Pieter de Hooch, Gabriël Metsu, Hendrick van Vliet and Hendrick Sorgh, who were all active during the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. Hannah Keck
The Milkmaid, 1658
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rotterdam Kunsthal
New Horizons: the Hague School and the Modern Dutch Landscape
Dates: 12 Sep 09 - 6 Dec 09
Categories: Old Master
Photography
Modern (1900-1945)
1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: Westzeekijk 341 Rotterdam 3015 AA
Tel: +31 (0)10 440 0300 Website
Paintings from the Hague School (1860-90) are here presented alongside documentary photographs, both of which point to the impact that the industrial revolution had on the 19th-century rural Dutch landscape. The exhibition reveals, through more than 90 paintings and photographs, the landscape that has gradually become overtaken by Dutch industrialisation. The works are supplemented by a film by Bert Koenderink about the industrial revolution that informs the landscape painting of the time.
The paintings and photos have been gathered from the collections of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and the Neue Pinakothek, Munich. The exhibition capitalises on the partial closure for renovation of the Rijksmuseum to secure loans that make up a large part of the display. Aside from paintings and photographs, other historical material is presented, such as railway maps, that further illustrate the evolution of the Hague School’s native landscape.
A large part of the photographic material comes from Johann Georg Hameter (1838-85). Hameter presented work at the first exhibition of photography in the Netherlands in 1855 and his photographs on show here tell us as much about early photography as they do about the rapidly industrialised landscape. R.C.
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