Part of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam's Asiatic art collection will meet the collection of modern sculptures from the Beelden aan Zee sculpture museum in Scheveningen. Sixty Asian sculptures, most of which are Hindu and Buddhist gods and goddesses from Indonesia, India, Pakistan and China, will enter into dialogue with work by twenty-five 20th century sculptors at the Rijksmuseum aan Zee.
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The Annenberg Theater of the Palm Springs Art Museum will be the home of Grammy-nominated Marilyn Maye on March 7, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. Ms. Maye brings her celebrated wit and superlative singing style to the Annenberg Theater stage, accompanied by some of the finest musicians throughout the United States.
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The Annenberg Theater of the Palm Springs Art Museum will be the home of two-time Grammy winner Christine Andreas (Oklahoma and On Your Toes) on February 22, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. She will be performing Love is Good…An Evening with Christine Andreas with Martin Silvestri at the Piano.
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The Palm Springs Art Museum announced today the winners of its 2008 Artists Council Juried Exhibition. The exhibition will run until March 9, 2008 and expresses the creative pulse of the local art scene through more than 50 innovative works of art. The top winners of the exhibition include:
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Characteristic Dutch landscapes with looming cloud-filled skies are featured in the new exhibition at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol, opened on 16 January 2008. In all, the show presents eighteen superb watercolours by artists of the Hague School, including work by leading masters such as Weissenbruch, Mesdag and Maris.
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The Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum are jointly organising an exhibition, entitled Illustrated Japanese Books from the 17th to the 20th century to be held in the Van Gogh Museum from 12 October.
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This autumn, the masterpiece The Leaping Horse by renowned English landscape painter John Constable will be on view in the Rijksmuseum. This impressive painting from 1825 is one of the masterpieces of the collection of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In the Rijksmuseum, Constable's painting will be juxtaposed with masterpieces from the 17th-century landscape painters Ruisdael, Hobbema and Koninck.
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The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum and the Nieuwe Kerk church will be jointly presenting the exhibition 'HERO' from 11 August 2007 through to 11 November 2007 in the Nieuwe Kerk church in Amsterdam. The occasion for the HERO exhibition is the commemoration of the 400th birthday of one of the greatest heroes in Dutch history: Michiel de Ruyter.
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For the first time, a selection of masterpieces from the ING Collection can be seen together with works from the Rijksmuseum collection at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The exhibition, Dutch Realism, includes eight paintings from the ING Collection by magical realists Carel Willink, Dick Ket, Wim Schuhmacher, Raoul Hynckes and Edgar Fernhout, amongst others.
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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Schiphol presents this winter at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol an unique exhibition of paintings and drawings by Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611-1693) and Willem van de Velde the Younger (1633-1707). Father and son Van de Velde produced eye-witness reports of fierce naval battles that took place between the fleets of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands and England. Their works are some of the earliest examples of war journalism.
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From 1 March to 5 June 2007 the Rijksmuseum presents a special exhibition about peasant life in the Netherlands in the Golden Age at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Works by famous 17th-century artists such as Isaac and Adriaen van Ostade, Jan Steen and Pieter Xavery feature scenes of country life.
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In 2007 the Rijksmuseum presents the first monographic exhibition on Jan van der Heyden in the Netherlands since 1937. Van der Heyden was one of the leading 17th-century painters of Dutch cityscapes. He was also fascinated by firefighting and is still remembered to this day by many as the inventor of the fire hose. The Rijksmuseum exhibition focuses on the diversity of Van der Heyden, who became known as the Dutch Leonardo da Vinci.
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