Willem de Kooning Returns to the Netherlands in Major Rijksmuseum Exhibition
9 October 2026 • Mark Westall
Willem de Kooning returns to the Netherlands in a major Rijksmuseum exhibition.
Tag: Rijksmuseum
FAD NEWS: Rijksmuseum and Prado Launch Major Partnership on Women in Art and History
2 October 2026 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum and Prado launch a new research partnership on women in art, history and the Habsburg Netherlands.
FAD NEWS: Rare 17th-Century drawing book donated to Rijksmuseum after 300 Years in the same family
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.
FAD NEWS: Rijksmuseum to stage landmark Willem de Kooning exhibition
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.
FAD NEWS: Willem de Kooning returns to the Rotterdam quays 100 years after leaving as a stowaway
19 July 2026 • Mark Westall
Three monumental Willem de Kooning sculptures have been installed outside Rotterdam’s Fenix museum
New Rembrandt Painting Discovered by Rijksmuseum
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
Rijksmuseum to open new sculpture garden after €60 million donation.
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.
Rijksmuseum and Municipality of Eindhoven announce new museum.
11 December 2025 • Mark Westall
The Rijksmuseum and the Municipality of Eindhoven are joining forces to build a branch of the Rijksmuseum in Eindhoven
At Home in the 17th Century, Rijksmuseum
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
Steve McQueen: Occupied City at the Rijksmuseum
15 September 2025 • Yichun Huang
Steve McQueen transforms this historical archive into a dual portrait of Amsterdam
A Field for Ghosts: American Photography at Rijksmuseum
10 February 2025 • Jasper Spires
American Photography at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is a chilling yet fascinating archive of the USA’s photographic history.
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
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