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A tronie with a pearl, not a passport
She looks round. The pearl catches the light. A face on canvas need promise no more than that.
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MOYA: art beneath the church vaults
Contemporary art, a gallery and a church with plenty of room for looking. Discover MOYA and the announcement of Boundless.
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Behind the scenes
Removing varnish is not the same as overpainting
On The Night Watch, what disappears is a later skin, not a picture. That work is precise, and not entirely reversible.
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Trix tells us what bones do and do not hold on to
In Leiden stands a Tyrannosaurus with so much of its bone preserved that you can almost trace the shape of an animal.
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At the Depot, you see how a collection breathes
Behind the mirrored façade in Rotterdam there is no secret attic, but a building that makes storage visible.
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Ordinary houses are history too
In Arnhem stand farmhouses, shops and workers’ homes that were in the way elsewhere. Together they make up a country of everyday life.
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A museum for a sea that turned fresh
Enkhuizen is home to the life around a stretch of water that was given a different name in 1932. The dyke cut off the salt sea.
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Steam you only hear when the pumping station is running
Near Lemmer stands an engine house that is usually idle. When it gets up steam, it is no longer a showpiece.
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A photograph is chemistry that keeps changing
In the Santos warehouse in Rotterdam lies a visual memory of millions of images. Not every print decays in the same way.
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Van Gogh
The Bedroom: three planes that have to become a room
Two chairs, a bed, a window. And yet it is no tidy floor plan. It is a room that comes forward.
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Van Gogh
What he took from Japanese prints differs from sheet to sheet
He cut prints out, copied them and hung them up. One sheet is a flat branch, another a bridge that really does have depth.
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Van Gogh
Behind the sower, ripe corn still stands
In Otterlo a man scatters seed over ploughed land, while behind him the harvest is still standing.
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