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Art Blogs, art columns or art reviews? How ever labeled, our international team of volunteers review art exhibitions on the fine arts and often visit hidden gems that deserve more attention than they get in general. Smaller museum with an impressive collection of Modern Art: international renowned museums with world-famous collections, whatever the case the Kunstpedia bloggers will not hesitate to give their personal thoughts on the exhibition or collection.

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A Hopping Exhibition: Edward Hopper at the Grand Palais, Paris

When I found out the Grand Palais museum in Paris was holding an Edward Hopper exhibition, I was delighted. But my delight quickly turned to dismay at the massive crowds—lines snaked round the block, and queues of at least four hours were expected...


Recently reopened: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Is it a plane, or maybe a boat, or perhaps a butter dish? Actually, it's none of the above, it is indeed the new wing of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, located at the Museum square. Last September the museum reopened its doors after eight year...


Kunsthal Rotterdam straalt weer in volle glorie

Avant-gardes biedt nog steeds een unieke verzameling kunst De Kunsthal in Rotterdam werd wereldnieuws en niet op de manier die men zich had voorgesteld. In het jaar dat de Kunsthal het twintigjarig bestaan wilde vieren, was die gebeurtenis  een gr...


Innovation, contradiction and modernity – Encountering the 30s with the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid

The volatile decade of the 1930s saw the rise of totalitarian regimes and the advent of the Great Depression, while advances in film and photography offered artists the opportunity to explore new art forms and medias of communications. It’s imposs...


“Je ziet alleen maar wat je ziet..maar wat zien we eigenlijk?“ - Unieke expositie Escher in Paleis Soestdijk

Sinds het Paleis Soestdijk enkele jaren geleden afscheid moest nemen van zijn laatste bewoners, wordt gezocht naar een nieuwe bestemming voor de gebouwen. Door het paleis ook dit jaar weer deels open te stellen voor besloten bijeenkomsten, rondlei...


An Unprotected Woman at the Museums:A Female Body on the Female Body in Picasso and Modern British Art at the Tate Britain

There is always something a bit disconcerting, about being a woman in an art exhibition: particularly an exhibition of an artist like Pablo Picasso, whose ability to atomize, reduce, and re-arrange the female body has rendered him one of modernity...


Salvador Dalí: an artist, a genius

The unsung Dalí exhibit at the Complesso del Vittoriano, tucked away in Rome's massive monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II, exalted the artist's work in the context of an egocentric life and carefully refined public image. As a viewer, I felt ne...


Rietveld Schröder House

Last weekend I visited what is probably the most famous house in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House). For many years I passed this house on my way to the university library. Now I finally have the change o...


An Art for Life – The Progressive Display of the Russian Avant-Gardes at the Thyssen-Bornemisza

Kandinsky said: “Every work of art is the child of its age, and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.” The early 20th century witnessed the birth ...


The Eight, The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

The exhibition space is dark and quiet, in stark contrast to the illuminated and ornately-adorned primary corridor of the Szepmuveszeti, Budapest‘s Museum of Fine Arts.  Crossing the threshold into the Eight, the reverence for the group of Hungari...