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English Heritage said no to Dutch loan request for ‘fragile’ Vermeer painting

Exclusive: Decision to not lend work for major exhibition taken despite assurances risk of damage was ‘negligible’, FoI reveals

The Guardian - UK

Doors close for final time on Amsterdam museum's blockbuster Vermeer exhibition

The blockbuster exhibition of paintings by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer has closed its doors for the final time

The Independent UK

Dutch courage required as Rembrandt museum plans pop-up tattoo studio

Tattoo artists will offer original designs inspired by the master painter at his former home in Amsterdam

The Guardian - UK

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Blockbuster exhibitions: how France is organising to tackle their mammoth environmental footprint

On the website of the Rijksmuseum, the blockbuster exhibition on Johannes Vermeer (10 February – 4 June 2023) is branded “the largest exhibition ever”. However, visitors’ hopes are soon dashed by a note informing them the show is sold out. “All of Vermeer’s works can still be admired via the online…

The Conversation

Protesters detained as Macron visits Amsterdam on second day of Netherlands trip

Dutch police arrested two protesters who ran towards French President Emmanuel Macron shouting slogans outside Amsterdam University on Wednesday, a police spokesman said, the second public disturbance during Macron's state visit.

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What Are the Bots Doing to Art?

The same thing tech has always done.

Reason

We used DNA from Beethoven's hair to shed light on his poor health – and stumbled upon a family secret

Many astonishingly creative people have lived lives cut tragically short by illness. Johannes Vermeer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jane Austen, Franz Schubert and Emily Brontë are some famous examples.

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Police imposters pulled off the world’s biggest art heist 33 years ago. Can a haunted man and $10m reward solve it?

Two thieves dressed as Boston cops made off with $500m in stolen art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than three decades ago. No arrests have ever been made, the case remains unsolved, and the museum’s chief investigator is still actively searching for the art — as a $10m…

The Independent UK

Police imposters pulled off the world’s biggest art heist 33 years ago. Can a haunted man and $10m reward solve it?

The Independent UK

Vermeer’s luminous interiors gave us a new way into the inner worlds of others

His celebration of the mundane reflected the beginnings of a modern sensibility

The Guardian - UK

A world of wonders and catastrophes: discovering Vermeer and his hometown

As the biggest ever show of the artist’s work is unveiled in Amsterdam, we retrace the enigmatic painter’s footsteps in Delft and also The Hague

The Guardian - UK

Vermeer review – one of the most thrilling exhibitions ever conceived

Moments of profound absorption, a glance, a letter… the mystery and stillness of the Dutch master’s work deepens the closer you get in this near-perfect show

The Guardian - UK

Much of a Dutchness: the world’s biggest ever Vermeer show is an unmissable feast

A milkmaid daydreaming, a mistress clutching a letter, a city waking at dawn … Vermeer was a master of the intimate, absorbing moment – and this sublime show frees his glorious vision

The Guardian - UK

Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - a once in a generation show, don’t miss it

A knock-out exhibition like this – pretty much all killer and no filler – won’t happen again for at least 30 years, so get to Amsterdam if you can

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The Independent UK

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum hosts blockbuster Vermeer exhibition

A blockbuster exhibition at the Netherlands’ national museum of art and history is bringing together 28 works by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer

Asharq Al-Awsat

Largest Ever Exhibition of Vermeer Paintings to Open in Amsterdam

Twenty-eight paintings by Johannes Vermeer go on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam this week, the largest ever exhibition of works of the 17th-century Dutch master, known for his expertise at rendering light and intimate household scenes. The show gathers half the works that Vermeer, who died aged 43 and…

The Guardian - UK

Vermeer will never look the same after Amsterdam exhibition

Connections, reflections, vibrations between his paintings will shine at the Rijksmuseum as never before

The Guardian - UK

‘Chance of a lifetime’ Vermeer exhibition to open in Amsterdam

Rare exhibition assembles 28 paintings by enigmatic Dutch master in one place

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Rail and sail: a month-by-month guide to no-fly travel ideas in 2023

Visit the Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam, spot puffins in Pembrokeshire or bag some Spanish peaks – and not an airport in sight

The Guardian - UK

The best art and design shows to visit in 2023

Queer Renaissance sculptor Donatello, Marina Abramović, David Hockney and a long-delayed mega-museum in Manchester – your art-design to-do list for the year ahead

Daily Mirror

Talented artist recreates masterpieces by Van Gogh and Banksy using a typewriter

James Cook recently completed a series of seven typewritten pieces of art, based on famous paintings and portraits of artists including Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Vermeer

The Conversation

Eco-activist attacks on museum artwork ask us to figure out what we value

In the last few weeks climate change activists have perpetrated various acts of reversible vandalism against famous works of art in public galleries.

Reuters

Climate activists who targeted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' sentenced to prison

Two Belgian climate change activists who last week targeted the famous Johannes Vermeer painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" have been sentenced to two months in prison by the Dutch court, of which one month was suspended.

Bangkok Post

Art world appalled by attacks on paintings

PARIS: Art world professionals have slammed recent attacks on famous paintings by climate protesters as "counterproductive" and dangerous acts of vandalism.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ Back on Display

Johannes Vermeer's “Girl with a Pearl Earring” went back on display at the Netherlands' Mauritshuis museum Friday, a day after climate activists targeted the 17th-century masterpiece. “We are incredibly grateful that ‘The Girl’ remained undamaged and is back in her familiar place so quickly,” the museum's director, Martine Gosselink, said…

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