Rembrandt’s Legendary ‘Night Watch’ Is Being Studied in Front of a Live Audience. What Will Scholars Discover?
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has built multi-pronged programming around its conservation of the 1642 group portrait.
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Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ to Undergo Restoration Live Online and on Public View at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum
The painting is being kept inside of a glass chamber to protect it during the restoration.
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Rembrandt and the Buttocks-Baring Dress: The Rijksmuseum’s Risk-Taking Director
"To pull people into the museum, you need tricks," said Rijksmuseum director Wim Pijbes. "If you feel the need for contemplation, you buy a Rembrandt."
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Morning Links: Rijksmuseum Edition
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has been named European Museum of the Year. [The Art Newspaper] Tomorrow, two days before the 12th Havana Biennial opens, Tania Bruguera will perform a 100-hour-reading of…
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Record Set for Adriaen de Vries, But Apple-1 Sold By Steve Jobs Falls Short of Estimate at Christie’s
A 1976 Apple computer, originally sold to a customer by Steve Jobs himself out of his Los Altos garage, sold for $365,000 at Christie’s in New York on Thursday, below its estimate of $400,000 to…
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Calder Sculpture Returns to Gramercy Park
After stays at two venues in the Netherlands, Alexander Calder’s 1969 monumental outdoor sculpture Janey Waney was reinstalled in Gramercy Park. The 26-foot-tall standing mobile was previously on…
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Retrospective: The Louvre’s Art Protection during World War I
And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago
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Girl with a Hoop Earring: Fun with Vermeer
Two beloved Vermeers have left Holland for a stint in the U.S. They'll find their descendants stripped by DalÃ, bedecked in toilet-paper rolls, and reincarnated by Cindy Sherman
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