© Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam, is a recently opened amazing hotel in the site of the famous Amsterdam's former Sweelinck Music Conservatorium, which was originally built at the e...

STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM

2012.10.24　 Text: Celeste Najt

The Stedelijk Museum is an international institution in Amsterdam dedicated to modern and contemporary art and design founded in 1874 which has been recently renovated. The Museum aims to provide a home for art, artis...

DE APPEL

2012.9.12　 Text: Celeste Najt

The exhibitions of Contemporary art in Amsterdam are not so many like in Paris or Berlin, but the ones you can find will probably blow your mind. De Appel is definitely one of the most interesting spots to see what is...

CORPUS EXPERIENCE

2008.7.28　 Text: Lotje Sodderland

A journey through the human body. A stormy November-esque day in the middle of July is probably not the most flattering angle from which to view Leiden’s ground-breaking new attraction: a jaw-dropping 35-meter rust...

WITTE DE WITH

2008.5.16　 Text: Kana Sunayama

The first thing art fans can think of when hearing the name of town Rotterdam will be Boymans van Beuningen Museum where contains Bruegel's 'Tower of Babel' as its collection. Contemporary art fans might have their a...

FRANS HALS MUSEUM

2008.1.24　 Text: Filip De Haes

The Frans Hals Museum is located in the center of Haarlem, a cosy city with 150 000 inhabitants, capital of Noord Holland and only a 15 minute trainride away from Amsterdam. It is named after the 17th century painter ...

TAG

2006.7.5　 Text: Ania Markham

A long-established name in Den Haag, Concrete opened its new Amsterdam store back in May. Situated on Spuistraat, the store also provides an excellent additional space for TAG, the platform for contemporary visual cul...

60DAYSOFSPACE

2005.12.4　 Text: Ania Markham

There have been a few very successful examples of the guerilla store concept, most notably the Comme de Garcons stores in places such as Warsaw and Berlin, but also Vacant in the US. 60daysofspace is a new Dutch chal...

SMART PROJECT SPACE

2005.11.4　 Text: Ania Markham

Back in the autumn of 2003, I reported on the sad forced relocation of Amsterdam's 'laboratory for cultural production', SMART Project Space. Following a 3 year battle to save their home in the former Swammerdam Insi...

FRESH COTTON

2005.6.4　 Text: Ania Markham

T-shirts have always been a great medium for expression. With the advent of digital design and printing, the opportunities for the smaller organizations or even individuals to create their own limited run of t-shirts ...

PATTA

2004.6.3　 Text: Ania Markham

Gee's not feeling very well and that's why he's being interviewed in a dressing gown at home. He's hurt his ribs carrying a big box of sneakers - special sneakers - all for his new store. It's been long anticipated, t...

BITTERZOET

2004.5.3　 Text: Ania Markham

It's not often people sit in front of you beaming from ear to ear during their whole interview so I think it is pretty fair to say the owners of Amsterdam's BitterZoet are extremely happy. And so they should be. Havin...