This virtual Advent Calendar consists of works of art I have seen during the past year and which made a great impression on me. The Calendar is featured with daily posts on my social media, …
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ART ADVENT: Week 1
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CHAPTER: Encounters. The Art of Interfaith Dialogue
During a decade artist Nicola Green has attended interfaith meetings around the world. Not as a participant, but as a witness. Allowed to sketch and take photographs, the resulting series “Light” and “Encounter” constitute a …
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AWARD: Mondrian research
At the end of June 2018, I had the privilege of attending the Company of Ideas Forum of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park at beautiful Hornby Island. My research project on the visionary dimensions in …
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LECTURE OUDE KERK: Picturing the Divine
On 21 June, I gave a lecture during the symposium “The Resurrection of the Lost Image” in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam. This symposium was organized on occasion of the installation Anastasis by Italian artist Giorgio Andreotta …
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AWARD: Teylers Theological Society
I am honored by the decision of the Teylers Theological Society, to award my essay collection In Pursuit of the Sacred: The Museum as Laboratory in the Contemporary Quest for God a gold medal. I …
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ARTICLE: The Burlington Magazine
The February edition of the international art historical journal The Burlington Magazine features an article I wrote about how Piet Mondrian’s painting “Lozenge Composition with Yellow Lines” came to The Netherlands. Lozenge composition with yellow lines, …
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ART ADVENT: week 3
This December I am keeping an advent calendar. Advent is traditionally the period during which the celebration of the birth of Christ is anticipated. During my travels over the past few weeks, I have seen …
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ART ADVENT: week 2
This December I am keeping an advent calendar. Advent is traditionally the period during which the celebration of the birth of Christ is anticipated. During my travels over the past few weeks, I have seen …
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ART ADVENT: week 1
This December I am keeping an advent calendar. Advent is traditionally the period during which the celebration of the birth of Christ is anticipated. During my travels over the past few weeks, I have seen …
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RECAP: Égalité in Amsterdam
Exactly one week ago – on Saturday February 27 – 65 participants performed Elena Kovylina‘s artwork Égalité on the Museumplein in Amsterdam. It was a beautiful and impressive performance, for the participants, audience members, and us …
