This galley in Novi Sad houses the Gift Collection of Rajko Mamuzić, another collector who donated his collection to the state. Unlike the Pavel Beljanski Memorial Collection, which mostly represents first half 20th C works, this collection is more focussed on the second half of the 20th C, from 1960s onwards, when a post-war generation … Read more
The Sursock Museum is one of Beirut’s most famous art institutions, focusing on modern and contemporary art. It is housed in a beautiful 19th-century villa in the Achrafieh district, the former mansion of Nicholas Sursock, a Lebanese collector who died in 1952. The museum has an attractive collection of modern and contemporary art, much of … Read more
By the time you read this is, it is probably too late not only to go and see this exhibition, but also to go and see the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal, near Nijmegen in The Netherlands. Through an unfortunate conflict between the owners of the museum and the organisation that exploits it, the … Read more
In comparison to the other museums we have visited this trip, the Serlachius in Finland and the KUMU in Tallinn, the Tartu Art Museum is small beer. Established in 1940 at the initiative of the local art school, it has over the years built up an impressive collection, of some 23,000 works, of which – … Read more
British artist Antony Gormley, creator of sculptures and installations, and a whole lot more, has exposed work before in The Netherlands. There was an exhibition in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam in 2008, and in Lelystad stands one of his landart works, Exposure. The Museum Voorlinden presents Gormley in a much grander way, dedicating a large … Read more
The Museum Voorlinden opened in 2016, as a private museum supported by donations and ticket sales only. It helps, though, that estate was initially bought by a rich Dutch industrialist who also happened to have a fabulous collection of modern and contemporary art. And on top of it all, to display it he forked out … Read more
What a fabulous modern art museum! After not the smoothest of starts, this trip, the Danubiana is the first thing that blows us away. Some 20 km outside Bratislava, on a small peninsula in the Danube, the Danubiana is perhaps one of the most exiting modern art museums of Europe. Established in 2000 by collaboration … Read more
It is not only the classical Italian Renaissance art that is on offer in Venice’s rich museum land, there is also an extraordinary modern art collection. Peggy Guggenheim, heir to the Guggenheim fortune, spent her life not only acquiring husbands – she was married to Max Ernst for a while, amongst various others – but … Read more
During a day in Edinburgh in September 2015, I went to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, located just outside the centre of town. The museum consists of two neo-classical buildings, aptly called Modern I and Modern II, where nr. I contains mostly permanent collection, and nr. II is being used for special exhibitions. … Read more
A unique art project involving the largest self-supporting sculpture in the world.