An appealing approach to creating elegant, worldly interiors that are rooted in the comforts of home. Interior designer Timothy Whealon is beloved for his accessible style, his seamless blend of classic and modern influences, and his skillful use of artwork and antiques, thanks to an extensive knowledge of fine and decorative arts. Whealon's design philosophy finds its roots in classicism; however, he approaches each project with a fresh, twenty-first-century eye that makes it both modern and...

David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made quite a splash in Swinging London as a portaitist, and went on to make a even bigger splash in Los Angeles when he moved there in the 1970s. His figurative paintings of the 1970s and 1980s captured the zeitgeist of West Coast living, while he also explored new avenues by constructing mosaics out of polaroids. By th...

With fifty-three paintings on paper Ed van der Kooy (The Hague, 1956) reflects on the current juncture, at which a volatile pandemic, racial riots and a persistent climate crisis dominate news reports. Sometimes the pictures are dark and intense. Sometimes they just appear to be idyllic, because there is a snake in the grass, disturbing the dream. In a painterly respect, too, nothing seems to be self-evident.

At his request, his daughter Floortje van der Kooy (The Hague, 1993) writes her refl...

Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen is het eerste geheel publiek toegankelijke kunstdepot ter wereld. Het depot, ontworpen door MVRDV, staat naast Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in het Museumpark in Rotterdam. Bezoekers zien het resultaat van ruim 170 jaar verzamelen: meer dan 151.000 objecten beeldende kunst en vormgeving zijn ondergebracht in veertien depotruimtes en gerangschikt op materiaal, formaat, en soms op chronologie of geografie. Naast de objecten zijn alle werkzaamheden die komen kijken b...

Belgian artist Gert Robijns has spent the past decade working on his “Reset” concept, wherein the recreation and revaluation of the landscape are key. In 2010, Robijns made a copy of the small town of Gotem, his birthplace, out of white wood and metal on a scale of 75:100, including the church and rectory. From then on, he became dedicated to following this idea of “Reset” in various projects, among them Reset Charbon, a reflection on Limburg’s mining history, and Reset Mobile, a so...

Solidarity has re-entered the global zeitgeist with resounding force in the last decade, driving new thinking to counter the systemic failures and abuses of our society. The Art and Solidarity Reader considers the agency artists, collectives, and art institutions have in building the radical visions of care and solidarity needed to transform the conditions of our collective existence.

Presenting new and historical material, the Reader narrates various micro-histories of artistic solidarity gl...

"Maarten Baas - New Times" deals with the phenomenon of time. The focus is on Baas' series "Real Time", which he has been constantly developing since 2009. In this series, his versatile approach to design, through the use of different disciplines, becomes particularly clear. He combines film, performance, art and design to rethink clocks and thus manages to tell us stories with his design.

De basis voor een nieuwe Kosmotronik is altijd een bestaand object van plastic, zoals een föhn of helm. Deze alledaagse apparaten en objecten worden door de meeste mensen als afval beschouwd zodra ze stuk zijn, maar door beeldend kunstenaar Harry Arling niet. Hij ziet de schoonheid in de afgedankte materialen en recyclet het van afval tot kunst. Inmiddels zijn de magische machines internationaal tentoongesteld en kennen de Kosmotroniks vele liefhebbers.

In 2021 maakte Uitgeverij Komma met Ha...

During the summer of the year 2000, Medieval Art Historian Scott Montgomery and Early Modern Historian Alice Bauer undertook the task of retracing the medieval pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. This book documents their thousand-mile, sixty-seven-day journey walking from Le Puy en Velay, France to the tomb of St. James at Santiago de Compostela, Spain. It also examines the historical background and numerous historical lessons gleaned from the experience.

As academics, Montgomery ...

‘Each person’s grief is as unique as their fingerprint. But what everyone has in common is that no matter how they grieve, they share a need for their grief to be witnessed.’

David Kessler (2019)

The pandemic has once again made us more aware of the fragility of life and the importance of being able to properly mourn the dead. Dramaturg Guy Cools has been researching laments and other rituals of mourning. He is particularly interested in how the emotions of loss need to be externalized....