Posts Tagged ‘art’

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
We’ve all heard of the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt… but what about his friend and contemporary Jan Lievens? We’ll tell you why history has forgotten him.
And, Dutch women don’t seem to want to be “on top”… at least not in the police force. Political Editor John Tyler will [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…

Right-wing politician Geert Wilders won big in the EU elections… but, in many social circles, it’s still not cool to admit you voted for him. We’ll (try to) explain why that is.
Meanwhile, in arts and culture, Philip Smet will take us on a tour of art without a [...]

This week on Curious Orange, we told you about the opening of an exhibition in Australia… of Dutch art.
Intensely Dutch is a collection of “some of the most important post-war Dutch artists, including those associated with CoBrA (Copenhagen, Brussels, & Amsterdam) and art informel, and those who preceded them, such as Willem de Kooning”.
Even though [...]

Ok, it’s true, I should have got this up last week… since it’s a story from last week’s show. However, here in the Netherlands, we’ve had a long run of holidays… so I’ve been avoiding my computer (plus the internet is down in my apartment - AAK - so I can’t do my usual workaholic [...]

This week on Curious Orange (the radio show)…
What happens when you scrape off the top 40cm of earth in Enkhuizen, Holland? You find 3-thousand-year-old stuff, that’s what. We’ll take you to the site of the excavation.
We’ll also take you to the Bijlmermeer - 12 years ago it was the site of a tragic plane crash, [...]