18 August 2026 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum has received an exceptionally rare 17th-century drawing book that remained in the same family for more than 300 years.
20 July 2026 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum celebrates Willem de Kooning with its largest exhibition in Europe for more than four decades, bringing together over 120 works across his remarkable career.
19 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Three monumental Willem de Kooning sculptures have been installed outside Rotterdam’s Fenix museum
2 March 2026 • Mark Westall
Researchers at the Rijksmuseum have confirmed that Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633) is an authentic work by Rembrandt van Rijn
13 January 2026 • Mark Westall
The new garden will also host temporary sculpture exhibitions. The Don Quixote Foundation is donating €60 million to fund the development of the new site.
11 December 2025 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum and the Municipality of Eindhoven are joining forces to build a branch of the Rijksmuseum in Eindhoven
22 October 2025 • Marta Bogna-Drew
Seven curators have worked for nearly four years on this ambitious project, bringing together archaeology, anthropology and decorative arts
15 September 2025 • Yichun Huang
Steve McQueen transforms this historical archive into a dual portrait of Amsterdam
10 February 2025 • Jasper Spires
American Photography at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is a chilling yet fascinating archive of the USA’s photographic history.
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
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.
1 January 2024 • Mark Westall
Here are the 5 most popular posts on FAD magazine last year 2023.
14 December 2023 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum has rediscovered two small portraits by Rembrandt.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
