| Stedelijk Museum, 14-12-2012 |
The Stedelijk (Municipal) Museum of Amsterdam has been my favourite museum of modern art for many decades. It was located near to where I was living and I was a regular visitor.
The museum had in the past an international reputation, comparable with the Tate Gallery, MoMa, Guggenheim, Centre Pompidou. But because of renovation it has been closed from 2003 until a few months ago. Really a shame, and it is doubtful, also because of financial problems, if it will be able to regain its former status.
With my friend Gerrit I visited the museum. The main entrance is now through what is called "the bathtub". There are many more exhibition rooms now, so there was a lot to see. Really a feast for the eyes.
Here is a collection of pictures. I have only added the names of the artists, you will have to Google for more information.
Unfortunately, the new rooms in the "bathtub" were closed because they were preparing an exhibition of works of Mike Kelley.
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 Outside the "bathtub"
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 Inside
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 Main museum entrance
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 Access to the bathtub
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 View of the surroundings
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 Entering the museum
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 Inside the museum
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 Marc Chagall
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 Piet Mondriaan
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 George Breitner
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 Jan Sluyters
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 Jean Dubuffet
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 Pablo Picasso
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 Kazimir Malevich
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 Theo van Doesburg
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 The monumental staircase
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 The "Erezaal"
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 Sol Lewitt
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 Jeff Koons
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 Georg Baselitz
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 Henri Matisse
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 Jean Tinguely
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 Industrial design
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 More design
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 Rietveld design
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lightlingmk2 wrote on Dec 20, 2012:
Beautiful big fat pig. What has the angel got to do with it ? |
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Kwai Loh wrote on Dec 23, 2012:
Nothing. It is called Ushering in Banality.
Can you imagine that at a Sotheby's auction in November 2001 one of the three editions of this work of art(?)was sold for US$ 1,875,750? |
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