We saw an excellent play yesterday at my kid’s school. It was a retelling of the Odyssey. In this version Odysseus was accurately portrayed as a reckless coward, and a ridiculously selfish brat. That ionic capital though…
A nice evening with two entertaining speakers. Bought the beautiful book.
A very nice book presentation. Noor Nuyten and Marian Cousijn talked about the process and concepts behind the book. Both the concepts and the process were very much worth discussing. Marian read the first story, which I had already read when I visited the expo a few weeks ago. It triggered me to buy the book, and to visit this book presentation.
Very much enjoyed the Never Seen Before exhibition. Also liked the large Before 1950 and between 1950-1980 expos. We noticed some trends at the best verzorgde boeken section. But Erwin Olaf blew us away. What an incredible body of work, made by an incredible person.
“I’m going to an Underware party,” sounds weirder when said out loud at home, than when shared with the typographic niche on Mastodon. It was a wonderfully weird opening, as can be expected.
Fantastic exhibition of all kinds of objects that play with the idea of time.
Absolutely fantastic evening, with black lacquer, black liquor, and punkrock.
An entertaining afternoon.
Impressive exhibition.
Such an important place, excellent exhibition.
An excellent stroll through the museum after a very disturbing phone call.
Such fun! Wonderful, playful exhibition.
Incredible dystopian expo by students of the Barlaeus Gymnasium. Kiki made some beautiful paintings with rather horrible concepts, we bought a drawing from Mari.
I gave a talk about my clocks to a room full of friends and family.
A bit underwhelming. Clocks, basically, not so much about time itself.
Beautiful.
Finally went to this museum. There was a very nice exhibition by Apostolos Vettas
A bizarre gathering, where teachers had to find out which students had read a book, and which hadn’t. After the quiz the actually fought in the ring. It was civilised though.
Fantastic localised version of the classic piece, played, danced, and built by students of the Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam. Some excellent actors, dancers, musicians, and a great way of playing with a well designed and built scene as well.
Wonderful and inspiring exhibition with an incredibly diverse range of clothes, and beautiful family pictures. We had a great cup of tea afterwards as well.
A very colourful exhibition about a region that’s not colourful at all. At least, that’s what you might think if you only follow the news.
Three large installations and a movie. Impressive.
Maybe not as absurd as I imagined, but absurd enough. Unsurprisingly I met quite a few people there: Sjoerd, Robin, Jonne, Nicole.
A nice expo with quite some good work. Inspiring. Also, one of Pauline Hille’s paintings was there. I follow an oil painting workshop at Pauline.
Very nice and clever reinterpretation of Waiting for Godot, by the philosophy students of the Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam, with two excellent roles by Echo and Nino, among others.
Fantastic exhibition with modern textile art from all over the world. My mother placed every piece in our own Greek family context.
We visited the nice statue garden, and the nice, and eclectic exhibition in the castle. But first we visited Maarten’s parents, which was really nice as well.
A fantastic happening, with an explanation of why the third thirsday in September is the national unread book day, with a nostalgic tram ride through Amsterdam, and with a brilliantly absurd finissage.
An incredible photographer. Incredibly well considered compositions, yet all so personal.
An exhibition about books that have never been read, in the public library in Amsterdam. I made a rotary phone with all the unread books of this library in it for this exhibition.
Hidden behind a normal Catanian facade is this pretty impressive ancient Greek amphitheatre.
There was a pretty good Caravaggio exhibition in Catania. Four original masterpieces, surrounded by quite a few excellent works by contemporaries.
Nice, but not as nice as Selinunte.
Fantastic place.
Incredible.
We saw this painting, a real Caravaggio, in this rather simple church. The catacombs beneath it were more interesting.
A morning walk in Siracusa. We saw the ridiculous Basilica santuario madonna della lacrime, these quarries, and the Greek theatre.
A wonderful, surprising and funny Virtual Opera.
On the final day we went to see this incredible retrospective.
Visited the graduation show. Spent most of my time at the Master Type and Media. Brought them a book about Greek printing. Spent time with Bas.
A few years ago I took my aunt Popi to Giethoorn when she was visiting from Greece. This time I took her to the Kröller-Müller museum.
An interesting exhibition with collaborations between different artists, around the theme of collaborating and being different. Turned into a rowdy night.
We had fun.
Incredible building. The exhibition was built around historical quotes. At times this was incredibly confronting, at times not too much.
Both a lovely and a ridiculous palace in Warsaw.
A very nice and lively exhibition of final exam work by students from three different high schools in Amsterdam. There was some serious talent there.
Went to see the paintings by Pauline Hille, my oil paint teacher. The rest of the exhibition was worth it as well. Some excellent work.
The story of the end of Troy, in reverse. Brilliant.
We went to the very first gathering of the ongelezen boekenclucb, the unread books club (the name works better in Dutch). There were happenings, speaches, sketches, presentations and conversations around the theme of the unread book. We had the honour to visit the depot of the Amsterdam Library, deep underground, where 400.000 books are stored for when someone wants to read one. We also saw the bin for books that will never be read again.
A very impressive exhibition, a tribute to victims and care heroes during WWII
. Texts and images of the horrible crimes of the nazi regime in mental care the Netherlands, mixed with incredible drawings and paintings by people were in these psychiatric hospitals.
Setting the story in the right now made it even more powerful. The set was just incredible. We were blown away.
Very interesting to look at these incredible painting. So old! I must say that the rest of the museum feels a bit anachronistic.
Wow, incredible in so many ways. The size, the amount, the themes, the ideas, the quality, the images.
We saw some excellent stuff. Martin Wong was absolutely fantastic, I enjoyed the thematic exhibition of the old Stedelijk collection, and there was some brilliant stuff about revolutionary mushrooms at the Buro Stedelijk expo. Can’t wait to go again.
This week a horde of uninformed savages voted en masse for a fascist party. This party hates culture (they really do, it is part of their program to actively destroy art). So today, as an act of rebellion I went to the Jewish Museum in Amsterdam to enjoy an excellent and very inspiring Sol LeWitt expo. I will visit it again, it’s really good.
Such an incredible museum.
I particularly enjoyed the library where I had a very nice conversation with a young book designer about design, art and the web.
I found it an intellectual fairground. Mostly fun. There were fun clocks, there was a fun room with funny pieces of paper on the wall, there were paintings with nice colours.
Incredible again. Saw Jan M. Verburg’s leporellos two years ago in Lochem, and we were amazed. Very happy to see this next version. And I do hope that this will truly be a biennale.
Pretty good.
Much better than expected. The story of the enormous, unfinished kouros is fantastic. The statue was hauled to the place where it would be erected, and then the artist cut off the ear by accident and stopped working on it. So much left to fantasise with such a story! Also the very old photos of the excavation of the kouros, with donkeys and dozens of men pulling, were incredible.
An old abandoned metal mine with factory ruins on a beach, with a beach bar and some surprisingly good land art.
I walked around here 30 years ago. There was nobody around back then. It was still not busy, but the area was much bigger and super interesting. And incredibly beautiful. I love the story behind it as well. A sanctuary not only for the rich, which was also common back then, but for everyone. Even women and slaves. Also the great gods were the more interesting gods.
Quite impressive and urgent. Some beautiful works. After a while I understood what we’re against. But I also started to wonder: what do we want instead? Which is a harder question to answer, I guess.
Visited the NXT museum with my students. Immersive art. Some of it interactive.
Jan-Jaap plays a role in this piece. I saw it last year and it was good again.
It was incredible to see these paintings. We had quite some fun with coming up with stories for these paintings, since we didn’t really know anything about them. Was the pregnant woman who was reading a letter — with a map on the wall behind her — sad because of bad news about her husband in the letter? Or did the letter tell her her husband was coming home after a journey that took longer that 9 months? Made up stories like that made us look at the details and made us forget about the crowd. There were way too many people, and maybe even too many Vermeers as well.
Not the best documentary, but definitely an incredible artist.
Very, very powerful exhibition about the relationshop between colonialism and the global financial system. Depressing, but at the same time hopeful that my 15 year old wanted to visit this expo.
We did quite some sniggering. Loved their attitude. Love their creative approach: whenever blocked they wondered What would the KLF do?
Brilliant.
While Kiki had her birthday party at home we went to the movies. Incredible movie.
The presentation of the book Hand. Bas Peeperkorn painted 600 paintings of hands. Incredible work.
I used to visit this museum at least once a week back when I was a student in de ninetees. I somehow loved the complexity of modern art: most of the time I just didn’t understand what I was looking at. I had a similar feeling today, which is a good thing. There was just so much contemporary art, with real contemporary ideas. Loved it.
Finally saw this incredible exhibition. Both their works were beautifully presented. Incredible to finally see Josef Albers’ paintings, the paintings that inspired me to start generating my books. His works are incredible, but this I knew. Anni’s work was even more impressive. So happy to have seen this, on the final day of the expo.