Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen's Surrealism collection is world famous, but this Boijmans Study is not devoted to the oeuvres of great names in the canon like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. Instead, it tells the story of the idiosyncratic finds made by the Dutch collectors Laurens Vancrevel and his wife Frida de Jong. Long before museums started to take notice, the couple had collected art and poetry by then relatively unknown Surrealists. Over the years, they let themselves be guided by c...

De collectie surrealisme van Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen geniet wereldwijd bekendheid. Toch is deze Boijmans Studie nu eens niet gewijd aan de oeuvres van gecanoniseerde namen als Salvador Dalí en René Magritte. In plaats daarvan wordt het verhaal verteld van de eigenzinnige vondsten van het Nederlandse verzamelaarsechtpaar Laurens Vancrevel en Frida de Jong. Lang voordat de musea er oog voor hadden verzamelden zij kunst en poëzie van op dat moment nog relatief onbekende surrealisten uit...

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South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as vitally important resources. However, the long-term effects of colonialism and conflict had largely precluded any concerted attempts to preserve material culture within the country; museums remained in Khartoum, the capital of the formally united Sudan. Fu...

South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as vitally important resources. However, the long-term effects of colonialism and conflict had largely precluded any concerted attempts to preserve material culture within the country; museums remained in Khartoum, the capital of the formally united Sudan. Fu...