It’s been described as the single largest return to date of the famous Benin antiquities looted by the British military.
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Why Isn’t Slavery Depicted in Dutch Painting?
Netherlandish art is remarkably coy about the whole colonial endeavor. A new book seeks to uncover those connections.
Posted inNews
Museum Worker Throws Art in the Trash by Mistake
Artist Alexandre Lavet’s aluminum replicas of beer cans at the LAM Museum in Lisse were a little too realistic.
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Stolen Van Gogh Painting Returned in IKEA Bag
“The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring” was confidentially handed off to Dutch art detective Arthur Brand this week.
Posted inOpinion
Don’t Believe the Hype About Decolonizing Dutch Museums
The violence of enslaver logic still lives on within the walls of Dutch cultural institutions, and has not even begun to disappear.
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Netherlands to Return 478 Looted Objects to Indonesia and Sri Lanka
The trove includes six objects from the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, marking the institution’s first repatriation of colonial objects.
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Tickets to Sold-Out Vermeer Show Are Going for Hundreds
The online resale market for the Rijksmuseum’s smash exhibition is booming, with tickets selling on eBay for over $2K.
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Extinction Rebellion Storms Rijksmuseum for Rembrandt Action
Changing tactics, the climate activists avoided gluing themselves to the masterpiece or smearing it with food products.
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Museum Under Fire for Showing AI Version of Vermeer Masterpiece
One artist said the Mauritshuis Museum’s decision to display “A Girl With a Pearl Earring” made using Midjourney “highly unethical.”
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Submit Your Wildest Version of “Girl With a Pearl Earring”
Your artwork could be shown at the painting’s home in the Netherlands while the original travels for an exhibition.
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Mysterious Oil Sketch Turns Out to Be a Real Rembrandt
The sketch was thought to be a copy, but historians still don’t know its function.
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How the Hermitage Amsterdam Finally Broke Free From Mother Russia
The Dutch institution had long tried to distance itself from Putin’s Russia, but after the invasion of Ukraine, distance was no longer enough.