Due to the strikingly jarring paintwork in red, yellow, and blue on the newly built houses in 1920, the row of houses on Torenstraat in Drachten was given the unflattering derogatory nickname or derogatory name 'Parrot Neighborhood'. After two years, the brightly colored houses received...
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...
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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