On February 27, the ArtWorlds foundation will bring the beautiful performance Égalité, by artist Elena Kovylina to Amsterdam. A human horizon will emerge on the Museumplein, an ultimate visualization of the idea of equality through diversity. …
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PROJECT: Performance Égalité on Museumplein (EN)
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ARoS REVIEW: Monet – Lost in Translation
Translating Monet Around the time that ARoS Art Museum opened its major exhibition on French painter Claude Monet, several US art museums were facing protests outside their buildings. A small group of protesters rallied against …
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#MondrianEverywhere Update
Since a while I have started to document public manifestations of the Mondrian style. Previously this blog featured a sneaker and a perfume advertisement in Mondrian’s primary colors and geometric style. Since then I have …
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MARGINALIA REVIEW: Everything You Own in a Box to the Left: Reclaiming the Potential of the Sacred in Music
For the website Marginalia | LA Review of Books, I wrote a review about Christopher Partridge’s The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane (OUP 2013). It was published online on June 9, 2015. In the …
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Column: The Fountain of Abramovic
This is a translation of a column that was featured on the website of the Association of Dutch Art Historians and in the Dutch local newspaper Harlinger Courant on February 20, 2014. ‘Extreme artist designs fountain …
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Blog post: How a 2014 film made a 1912 painting come to life
The other week I went to see the film Samba. A film by the creators of Intouchables, the major French film hit of 2011. Samba was advertised with a poster at the bus stop nearby my …
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Paper presentation: Religion, Art & Conflict
Next week (on Dec. 5-6) a conference titled Religion, Art & Conflict: Disputes, Destruction and Creation will take place at the wonderful Courtauld Institute of Art in London. During this conference, I will be speaking about one …
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Sociale vraagstukken: Wetenschap is meer dan feiten
Naar aanleiding van recente discussies over feiten, meningen en interpretaties in de wetenschap, schreef ik een reactie. Deze werd geplaatst op de website van Sociale Vraagstukken. Is wetenschap slechts een mening? Het grote publiek …
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Column VNK: Het Feestje van Dumas
Deze column schreef ik voor de website van de Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici. Het Feestje van Dumas Al zou je willen, er was geen ontkomen aan. Vorige week opende in het Stedelijk Museum de grote …
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Op-Ed Trouw: Rijksmuseum collection is not a toolbox
This is a translation of an op-ed that was featured April 30, 2014 in Dutch newspaper Trouw Rijksmuseum collection is not a toolbox Photo: Olivier Middendorp The Dutch Rijksmuseum invited the philosopher Alain de Botton …
