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65. Kolkata (2)

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Another thing we have always associated with Calcutta is its artistic credentials. All the artists we knew, and knew of, 20 years ago, were Bengali, so it cannot be other than that Calcutta is the capital of Indian art, at least its modern and contemporary art. The first signs are indeed positive, I discover the [...]
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a random walk in Beirut

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My Lebanese friend, with whom I stayed the last few days, had to attend a meeting on my last morning in Beirut, so I was all prepared to wander through this magnificent town – which I know from an earlier visit – on my own, for a few hours. But such is Middle Eastern hospitality, [...]
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08. the museum

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The Gösta Serlachius Museum, in Mantta, is heralded as the best art museum in Finland. Started as a private collection by the papermill owning industrialist Serlachius family over a century ago, the first museum opened in 1945, I suppose in the manor house that still forms the heart of the museum. In 2014 a new [...]
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17 April 2023

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the Ngala Lodge I am usually quite good at finding good accommodation, but this one beats all our expectations. The Ngala Lodge is a small – 24 rooms, no, 24 suites – hotel at the Atlantic Ocean front, with a fabulous garden, two swimming pools and a great view from the restaurant over that same [...]
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21 March 2023

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Porto Novo With pain in the heart we leave our little beach hotel behind – which was actually more like a hotel close to the beach, a beach too filthy to sit on, and the sea too filthy to bathe in, just next to the Cotonou harbour entrance. But it was a very comfortable place, [...]
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BRAFA 2023

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Through our membership of the Vereniging Vrienden Etnografica, a Dutch group linked by their interest in ethnographic art, we are every year invited to the BRAFA, the Brussels Art Fair, usually held at the beginning of the year.  This year’s version had its opening on January 29th, 2023. Officially, our main interest are the four [...]
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Boijmans in Ahoy

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A unique drive-thru exhibition in Rotterdam, and a great experience (August 2020) Museum Boijmans vand Beuningen, Rotterdam’s foremost arts museum, is closed for renovation until 2026. The large Rotterdam events hall Ahoy had to cancel all large scale events because of Corona. And then somebody came up with the bright idea to organise a drive-thru [...]
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06. the Czech Cubism movement

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One of the surprises of this trip is the discovery of the Czech Cubism movement, which is spectacularly on view not only in various Prague museums, but also in some of the architecture. I had never heard about Cubism in the Czech Republic. And what do I know about Cubism, anyhow, other than that a [...]
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the favourite paintings

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Ever since my years in Haiti I have been fascinated by Haitian paintings. However, we found early on that we had an expensive taste, so although we have built up a nice – and very personal – collection, the real big names, ‘first generation’ and the lot, have stayed out of reach. On this page [...]
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Christo in Oberhausen

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A unique art project involving the largest self-supporting sculpture in the world.
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