Tag: art
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15 Years of Amsterdam School
Seen on 24 April 2016 in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam: Great exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam on interior design of the Amsterdam School artists De Klerk, Kramer, Krop and Van der Mey. On the top floor of the museum, over 500 objects are on show in some fifteen rooms, each one with its…
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Fun Palace
Read in the Guardian of 19 February 2015: The other conference I visited this weekend was ‘Flatpack Democracy Brighton’. They made me member of a forum. I told the audience about how to build local platforms of citizen-amateurs that can generate collective intelligence. Just when I was leaving the conference, Daniel Bernstein of The Synergy…
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A wider world
Seen in the Stedelijk Museum on 13 September 2015: Enjoyed seeing ‘ZERO: Let Us Explore the Stars’ very much. The exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum is just great. At the time, when the young avant-garde artists from Düsseldorf, Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, dived with their Amsterdam friends Henk Peeters, Jan Henderikse, Jan Schoonhoven…
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Dark Sky City
Seen in De Pont in Tilburg, the Netherlands, on 6 August 2015: The exhibition on the American artist James Turrell in De Pont, Tilburg, was exciting. Thursday two weeks ago we visited the museum, but I have to admit I didn’t know his work when I entered the place. There were some four installations.…