On May 1, 2024, Museum De Lakenhal turns 150: in 1874, the old Laecken-Halle was renamed the city museum of Leiden and opened to the public. This milestone is being celebrated with free admission for everyone and a festive program of...
The Image Bank of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands contains an enormous number of images from four categories—monuments, archaeology, cultural landscape & collections—that have been created over the past 150 years. In mid-March 2019, shortly after the application, the Image Bank received the status...
Last Sunday, part one of an article about the art movement De Stijl appeared. The article was prompted by the Beetsterzwaag Art Weekend. The 9th edition of this event was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the De Stijl art movement. It struck me...
On July 1 and 2, 2017, the 9th edition of the Beetsterzwaag Art Weekend in Beetsterzwaag was dedicated to the centenary of the De Stijl art movement, organized by the 'Stichting Kunst Promotie Beetsterzwaag' (SKPB). Following this, I was...
Last week I handled the information in a strange, chaotic, and to me now incomprehensible and illogical manner, which rightly drew quite a bit of disapproving commentary. De Stijl stamps have raised a number of questions for me, which I The New...
The diversity of initiators behind stamp issues only struck me with a remark in the article 'Who saves the stamp?' in the NRC daily of January 25, 2017, and the email contact with Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. Arjen Ribbens: “The work...
Today, on the first day of sale of the 100 Years of DE STIJL stamp sheet, I will discuss the ten stamps in combination with the artworks. Topics covered include the background information for each stamp, the quotes on the tabs, and the...
When I first saw the vertical sheet of DE STIJL stamps in photocopy format on A4 size a few weeks ago, the whole thing struck me as confusing: “What is the bottom, what is the top of each stamp? You...
It is 100 years ago that the magazine De Stijl was founded in Leiden under the editorship of Theo van Doesburg. In this magazine, diverse artists, designers, and architects published their innovative ideas of the De Stijl art movement, which included Piet Mondrian, Bart...
Three current points of interest have prompted me to draw your attention now to the '100 Years of De Stijl' stamp issue, which will not be available for purchase until March 27, 2017: The newspaper headline 'Museum Dr8888 kicks off Stijl Year 2017' from the...
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