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Art Blogs, houses posts and personal columns of our international team of columnists. Reviews of art exhibitions, art & antique fair visitor reports, views on developments in the art and antique sector and any other type of personal views and/or opinions related to the fine and decorative arts.

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Katsura Imperial Villa - Photographs by Ishimoto Yasuhiro

The aesthetics of Japanese culture--be it architecture, cuisine, fashion, or ceramics--are so immediately identifiable, one doesn’t need to have spent any time in that part of the world in order to develop an opinion (or even a feeling) about the ...


Rietveld Schröder House

Last weekend I visited what is probably the most famous house in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House). For many years I passed this house on my way to the university library. Now I finally have the change o...


Celebrating the Tricentenary of the National Library of Madrid – A Public Display of its Treasures

The National Library in Madrid, Spain’s oldest cultural institution, is celebrating its 300th birthday with a stunning exhibition showcasing its greatest treasures. Not only full of antique books and medieval codices, the National Library is home ...


Goed Getroffen, een impressie - Werken van de Haagse School nu te zien in Oss

Het is een monumentaal pand, in het centrum van Oss, op een steenworp afstand van het station. Ooit was het fabrikantenvilla, gemeentehuis, pensionaat en nu een museum, genoemd naar de stadsarchivaris Jan Cunen (1884-1940) die ook de grondslag leg...


Schatgraven, “kunst”, tussen hoop en teleurstelling

Omroep Gelderland scoort met succesprogrammaTerwijl het buiten een erg mooie winterse dag is met een lekker zonnetje, komen de auto’s al voor tien uur het terrein van Landgoed Heerlijkheid Mariënwaardt   in Beesd oprijden om een parkeerplekje te z...


Johannes Vermeer, schilder van het licht 1632-1675 | Vermeer Centrum Delft geeft inzicht in licht

Wanneer je in je leven al het werk van de Delftse schilder Johannes Vermeer wil zien, zul je een wereldreisje moeten maken. In Nederland zijn in musea zeven werken van hem te bewonderen. De rest vind je in de Verenigde Staten, Duitsland, Frankrijk...


Madrid’s Best Kept Art Secret - The Lázaro Galdiano Museum

Madrid’s status as one of Europe’s art capitals hails from the big three – the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, but what of the smaller galleries? While these museums are undoubtedly spectacular and have earned their stat...


Discover the Orientialists at Rome's Chiostro del Bramante

For Romans, it's a reasonably well known place that people know by name but many haven't ever been to before. For me, Chiostro del Bramante is one of Rome's hidden gems, a well kept secret that is hidden away in the historic centre of Rome. A form...


Moonlight, mystery and beauty: the complex world of the artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

SieboldHuis – JapanmuseumI'm visiting the SiebolHuis in Leiden, the Netherlands, today. This former home of Philipp Franz von Siebold was converted into a museum in 2005 dedicated to his life, his collection and to Japan. The topfloor is set up to...


Gotscha Lagidse , een magiër met metaal - Harnassmid, metaalrestaurator en metaalkunstenaar in één persoon

Zijn werk is te zien in tal van musea. Museumdirecteuren, conservatoren en deskundigen in binnen- en buitenland zijn lyrisch over hem. Zijn site geeft een goed overzicht van alle referenties en is zeker aan te bevelen voor een eerste kennismaking ...


Exploring Architecture in Art over the Centuries at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Fundación Caja Madrid

The temporary exhibitions curated by the Museo Thyssen-Bornmisza generally excite me, but when I heard of their current themed exhibit, “Architectural Paintings from the Renaissance to the Eighteenth Century,” I must confess this left me with the ...


Filippino Lippi & Sandro Botticelli at Scuderie del Quirinale (Rome)

5 October 2011 - 15 January 2012One of the art world's greatest scandals led to one of its greatest rivalries. When Renaissance master and Carmelite friar Filippo Lippi used his influence as confessor at the Augustinian convent of Santa Margherita...


Soviet Socialist Realism in Rome

Since re-opening in 2007, Rome’s Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, the city’s largest exhibition space, has increasingly played host to a number of traveling, internationally themed exhibitions, known in some parts of the world as blockbuster exhibitions...


Photography: a reflection of history

I was triggered by a radio broadcast considering the Greek and Italian economy that suggested that art might be an alternative investment. As a result of my bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and my present study at the Photo Academy (Fo...


Art and Economics at Madrid’s Feriarte

Imagine stepping into an industrial sized exhibition hall filled with tiny galleries from antiquities to the avant-garde art of the 20th century, sat side-by-side with the Renaissance masters and medieval stone masonry. The Feriarte, Madrid’s Fine...
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