Expo: 10/4/2018 - 5/8/2018, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid - 8/9/2018 - 13/1/2019, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) is the most important painter of sketches in the history of European art. His Italian and Flemish predecessors had for the most part prepared their paintings by using drawings. Rubens transformed this process by systematically making sketches in colour, with oil paint, and nearly always on panel supports. Rubens's oil sketches were essentially a ne...

We Are The Market! claims a liberal ALL-INCLUSIVITY to push the stretch of our cultural offer in the eye of the final commonplace; the capitalist commons of the high street.

Anticipating to a hegemonic culture encroaching on the city centre, one that’s turning exclusive due an engagement towards a “publics” while narrowing the diversity of cultural production for and by the majority; We Are The Market! commissioned 18 unannounced achievements that offered an alternative. As well as this...

It's because feminism has become a fashionable commodity now, that we're in desperate need of a more inclusive and varied reflection on contemporary girlhood, gender equality struggles, and the relationship between gender, politics and philosophy.

This book documents the exhibitions and thought processes of 6 engaging artists and designers regarding the theme, and features a collection of essays by artists and academics, writers and rioteers, curators and journalists.

With the participation o...

The Book of the Bird celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations and photographs, featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colourful exotics.

Interspersed though the illustrations are short texts giving background to the pictures and information on bird species. This is the perfect gift for all bird lovers.

Featuring all kinds of dogs – big, small, graceful, cute, funny – The Book of the Dog is a cool and quirky collection of dog art and illustration by artists around the world. Interspersed through the illustrations are short texts about the artists and different breeds, paying homage to man's best friend. Beautifully designed and packaged, the book will appeal to dog lovers of all ages.

Tijdens een aantal ontmoetingen gingen Jeroen Lutters en Mieke Bal in gesprek over de kunst van kennisoverdracht. Op zoek naar een dialoog die ook zou raken aan de beeldende kunst, bracht Lutters schilderijen van Banksy, Marlene Dumas, en George Deem mee als teaching objects — voor elke conversatie één. Hij vroeg Mieke Bal wat deze schilderijen zouden kunnen zeggen over lesgeven en kennisoverdracht in bredere zin. Het resultaat is The Trade of the Teacher: Visual Thinking with Mieke Bal, ...

Thomas Borgmann approaches collecting art as an explorer, and has a sharp eye for innovative art. With his collection Borgmann time and again made a 'jump into the future', discovering extraordinary work by a fresh generation of artists, including Cosima von Bonin, Lucy McKenzie and Wolfgang Tillmans.Recently, Borgmann donated a large numbers of works from his collection to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.The Borgmann works reflect the breadth and diversity of contemporary art produced through...

In de zomer van 1955 verhuisde Picasso zijn atelier naar ‘La Californie’, een belle époque-villa van begin vorige eeuw, gelegen in de heuvels rond Cannes. De grote Jugendstil ramen en het uitzicht op de tuin met cactussen, eucalyptus- en palmbomen kwamen terecht in Picasso’s schilderijen. Deze interior landscapes, zoals Picasso ze noemde, tonen onvoltooide schilderijen en sculpturen, schildersmaterialen, muziekinstrumenten en allerhande objecten die hij als rekwisieten gebruikte in zij...