Festivals and Films
Amsterdam What's on
18 September 2010 - 23 January 2011. Born in Rotterdam, Dutch artist Kees van Dongen (1877 - 1968) shared a studio with Picasso in Paris at the turn of the century, and became highly regarded as a pai...
Amsterdam What's on
Dutch Cows: Cattle Pieces from the Rijksmuseum
15 July - 8 November 2010. This unusual exhibition at the Rijksmuseum plays homage to the cow in paintings. The show comprises nine 17th-century cattle pieces from the museum's own collection, offerin...
Amsterdam What's on
13 June 2010 - 6 January 2011. Like a magpie, Dutch fashion designer and performance artist Aziz Bekkaoui is attracted to all that glitters. With this (literally) dazzling exhibition, Bekkaoui examine...
Amsterdam What's on
11 June - 12 September 2010. Erwin Olaf is an award-winning photographer and film maker with an international reputation. Born in Holland in 1959, Olaf's work tends to be both ironic and provocative....
Amsterdam What's on
Amsterdam’s canal belt: the expansion of Amsterdam in the Golden Age
1 June - 6 September 2010. Through a selection of paintings, prints and maps, the Rijksmuseum celebrates the city's canals which were synonymous with the massive growth of 17th-century Amsterdam....
Amsterdam What's on
17 June - 13 September 2010. Surrealist painter Joan Mir
Amsterdam What's on
Matisse to Malevich: Pioneers of Modern Art from the Hermitage
6 March - 17 September 2010. On display for the first time in the Netherlands, the paintings in this exhibition hail from the Hermitage in St Petersburg, home to one of the world
Amsterdam What's on
Amsterdam’s earliest photographs 1845-1875
22 April - 27 June 2010. The City Archives presents a comprehensive overview of life in Holland between 1845 and 1875. Drawing from extensive photographic resources from the Netherlands as well as for...
Amsterdam What's on
16 March - 5 September 2010. Don Lawrence was a renowned British cartoonist and science fiction illustrator (1928 - 2003). Known as something of a hellraiser in his youth, he failed to achieve the rec...
Amsterdam What's on
Paul Gauguin: The Breakthrough into Modernity
19 February - 6 June 2010. 60 works of art by Paul Gauguin are on display in the Van Gogh Museum. Comprising paintings, sculpture and ceramics, many of the works are on loan from as far afield as Wash...
Amsterdam What's on
6 February - 24 May 2010. This exhibition examines the art movement known as 'Der Blaue Reiter' whose brightly coloured paintings caused a storm in early twentieth century Munich. These artists were t...
Amsterdam What's on
Until 9 May 2010. 300 years ago the Maroon people were taken by force from Africa and shipped to Suriname as Dutch slave labour. From here they escaped and built an independent culture for themselves,...
Amsterdam What's on
1 December-1 March. This display of prints and drawings in the Rijksmuseum transports viewers back to the Holland of the 16th and 17th centuries. As the title suggests, the exhibition concentrates on...
Amsterdam What's on
18 December 2009 - 17 March 2010. The work of Russian avant-garde artist Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) is currently on show in Amsterdam's Foam_Fotografiemuseum. Comprising over 200 vintage photogra...
Amsterdam What's on
Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age
21 November 2009 - 15 February 2010. Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) was a 17th century Dutch artist famous for his landscapes. As the title of this exhibition suggests, the artist specialised in depict...
Amsterdam What's on
18 September 2009 - 24 January 2010. For the first time in 30 years, the Van Gogh Museum is hosting a retrospective of Belgian artist Alfred Stevens. The exhibition, which features 64 paintings, has b...
Amsterdam What's on
7 September 2009 - 21 February 2010. Amsterdam's unique Hendrikje Museum of Bags and Purses presents the history of the western ladies bag from the late Middle Ages to modern times, explaining visuall...
Amsterdam What's on
17 October 2009 - 24 January 2010. This is the latest major exhibition to be staged in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Tracing the work of three revolutionary artists, it follows the influence of C
Amsterdam What's on
17 Oct 2009 - 24 Jan 2010. This is the latest major exhibition to be staged in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Tracing the work of three revolutionary artists, it follows the influence of C
Amsterdam What's on
17 October 2009 - 18 April 2010. On display in the National Foundation De Nieuwe Kerk is an exhibition of 250 precious items from various museum collections in Oman, including those of the Ministry of...
