By Vanessa van’t Hoogt
With a palette and fine brushes in her hand Elisabeth Geertruida Wassenbergh looks us right in the eyes. Continue reading “The Making of Well Made”
Category: Visual Arts
Tijd als ervaring. Maarten Baas in het Groninger Museum
Groninger Museum Tijdschrift vroeg Thijs Lijster een artikel te schrijven over Hide&Seek, de eerste solotentoonstelling van designer/kunstenaar Maarten Baas. Voor de Arts in Society Blog maakte hij een ingekorte versie. Continue reading “Tijd als ervaring. Maarten Baas in het Groninger Museum”
A Dancing Museum
by Carmen van Bruggen
‘It is time to see, to make visible and bring alive the moving bodies of a culture’
Boris Charmatz in Manifesto for a Dancing Museum.
She wears dirty sneakers, blue Adidas sweatpants and a simple grey t-shirt. Her outfit, however, reveals nothing of the styles she dances: Russian Folkdance and ballet. It has a brilliant effect, the banging of her sport shoes on the museum floor, while she plays both the male and female roles of classical pieces. Of course she is a contemporary dancer. She does whatever she wants. She mixes styles, appropriates any role and enjoys the absence of any clear dance rules. Continue reading “A Dancing Museum”
Rodin on Tour in Groningen!
By Margreta van Kammen
Together with other master students of the curator track in Groningen, I follow a course taught by the director of the Groninger Museum, Andreas Blühm, on Rodin and the current Rodin exhibition in the Groninger Museum.
“The Knowledge of the Curator”: The Experience of a Sponge in a Pressure-Cooker
by Daphne Verberg
How do you exhibit a prayer nut (a micro-carving the size of – you guessed it – a nut!) in the daily hustle and bustle of the Rijksmuseum? And how do you display fashion design whose tactility makes visitors want to reach out and touch it, although they are not allowed to? Or what are art lovers looking for when they gaze at a masterpiece? Do they want to know the personal stories of Marten en Oopjen or are they trying to comprehend the virtuosity of Rembrandt? Continue reading ““The Knowledge of the Curator”: The Experience of a Sponge in a Pressure-Cooker”