Restoration of Rembrandt’s Night Watch Begins.
12 November 2024 • Mark Westall
The restoration of The Night Watch begins with the removal of varnish. The restoration process can be followed live at the Rijksmuseum
Tag: Rijksmuseum
Rijksmuseum’s major autumn exhibition is Asian Bronze. 4,000 years of beauty.
4 July 2024 • Mark Westall
Rijksmuseum’s major autumn exhibition, Asian Bronze. 4,000 years of beauty, will be the first-ever major international exhibition of Asian bronze as a unified subject.
The 5 most popular posts on FAD magazine in 2023.
1 January 2024 • Mark Westall
Here are the 5 most popular posts on FAD magazine last year 2023.
Rediscovered Rembrandt portraits on show at Rijksmuseum
14 December 2023 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum has rediscovered two small portraits by Rembrandt.
Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer exhibition most successful in its history
5 June 2023 • Mark Westall
Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer exhibition finished as the most successful exhibition in its history with 650,000 visitors from 113 nations, over 16 weeks
Rijksmuseum acquires three works by Marlow Moss
9 May 2023 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum has acquired three works by Marlow Moss: the 1948 painting White and Black (No 27) and two untitled drawings made around 1940 and 1957 respectively.
Creative Cities: Amsterdam Vermeer special.
2 March 2023 • Lee Sharrock
Such is the star power of 17th Century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer that he is one of a select few artists from the pantheon of art history known on a first-name base, rather like an art world version of Beyoncé or Rihanna.
Rijksmuseum’s slavery exhibition opens at United Nations HQ
27 February 2023 • Mark Westall
The exhibition Slavery. Ten True Stories of Dutch Colonial Slavery opens today to the public at the United Nations (UN) in New York.
Rijksmuseum opens its Vermeer exhibition
8 February 2023 • Mark Westall
Rijksmuseum opens its Vermeer exhibition to the public this coming Friday, 10th February. This will be the first retrospective exhibition of Johannes Vermeer in the history of the Rijksmuseum.
Revelatory insights in new Vermeer biography
6 January 2023 • Mark Westall
In the lead up to the opening of Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition on 10th February 2023, a new biography published… Read More
List of Vermeer paintings for Rijksmuseum exhibition revealed.
1 November 2022 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum has announced the list of works by Johannes Vermeer which will go on show in its exhibition Vermeer from 10… Read More
Hidden sketch discovered under Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.
8 December 2021 • Mark Westall
A previously hidden sketch has been discovered during examinations of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. This allows us to look over the… Read More
RIJKSMUSEUM TO STAGE THE LARGEST VERMEER EXHIBITION EVER
2 December 2021 • Mark Westall
In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, will dedicate a retrospective exhibition to the… Read More
11 Art exhibitions to get excited about in 2021
4 January 2021 • Mark Westall
What a year 2020 was! Glad to get that over but seems like the beginning of 2021 is going to… Read More
Landmark Exhibition on slavery to open at Rijksmuseum early 2021
10 December 2020 • Mark Westall
Rijksmuseum, the national museum of arts and history of the Netherlands, will stage its first-ever major exhibition dedicated to the subject of slavery
CULTURE NEWS : Shortlist announced for the Inaugural ‘ Leading Culture Destination Awards’
8 October 2014 • Mark Westall
Just announced the shortlists for the inaugural Leading Culture Destination annual awards, the first and only international awards to celebrate the best non-for-profit visual arts institutions around the world.
ART STUFF on a plane # 22: ‘The Big Three in Amsterdam’
1 October 2013 • Paul Carey-Kent
Most days art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in Surrey – or this week, a plane to Amsterdam*. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?
Google Art Project
1 February 2011 • Mark Westall
Today Google unveiled the Google Art Project, a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to… Read More