In 2023 viert Brussel, en bij uitbreiding het hele land, het jaar van de art nouveau. Wie vertegenwoordigt deze revolutionaire stijl in ons land beter dan de beroemde architect Victor Horta? Deze handige gids loodst u langs zijn creaties in Brussel, van openbare gebouwen tot privéwoningen en monumenten, allen opgetrokken in art nouveau-stijl. Victor Horta wordt in 1861 in Gent geboren en verricht baanbrekend werk met zijn architectuur: denk aan de typische decoratieve vormen, de experimentel...

"I can resist everything", wrote Oscar Wilde, "except temptation". What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers in Amsterdam. About the pleasures and pitfalls of painting, forbidden favourites and the flirtation between the art of painting and other muses.

Noud and Ruby decided to spruce up their living room in 1965 by refurnishing the fireplace and adding a new sofa, a tufted corner piece in a classy shade of beige velveteen; not a right-angled design, but a soft, sensual curve snaking around the corner of the room. Noud and Ruby’s redecorating set the scene for what would become a sincere and erotic collaboration between the couple that spanned almost ten years and documented both fashion and fantasy. But the pictures were never intended to...

Published with an eponymous exhibition in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, this catalogue provides an overview of works created there by immigrant Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji between 2016 and 2021, together with the oeuvre he produced in Iraq in the 1980s. Central to this cartography is a reflection on Baghdad, the artist’s own family history of migration, and his experiences in Iraq during the turbulent years he spent working there. His characteristic black linework and melancholic under...

Matthieu Ronsse creates paintings that often seem unfinished, comprised of references to old masters, fragments from his private life, or clippings from books on photography and architecture. He challenges the traditional painting method, questioning its qualities of materials, techniques, subject, and history. ‘A Procession of Lobsters’ offers an overview of work that Ronsse creates ‘in situ’: at a petrol station, in the house of a collector, for a catering company, within watchtower...

'Il Libro dell'Arte' wordt binnen de kunst- en restauratiewereld beschouwd als het absolute standaardwerk op het gebied van de oude schildertechnieken. Het is het best bewaarde middeleeuwse traktaat over kunst en wordt vermeld in zowat alle studies over schilder- en restauratietechniek. Van 'Il Libro' zijn dire manuscripten overgeleverd. Deze Nederlandse vertaling berust op de oudste en meest originele versie; een afschrift uit 1437 dat gekopieerd werd door een gevangene in de Florentijnse Ca...

‘Then, Now, and Then’ consists of 16 films that Marijke van Warmerdam made during her stay in Rome in 2017 and subsequent visits to the city. All the films are loops, and most last no longer than a few minutes. They portray life on the street as the artist takes us on a walk through the city. Distance and proximity, visibility and invisibility, movement and rotation alternate as the films show how the dynamism of the Baroque lives on in today’s Rome. With her keen eye for abstract image...

The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic significance. Such buildings functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural changes, or as aspirational placeh...

Published by Van Zoetendaal, this special collection of photographs by Dutch documentary filmmaker, author, and photographer Johan van der Keuken offers a fascinating window into the everyday lives of people through portraits, personal moments and many street scenes. With a career that spanned four decades, Van der Keuken was a prolific producer of images of his time, traveling to Greece, Italy, Spain and France, and visiting and documenting iconic cities like New York, Paris and his native A...