Posts Tagged ‘Australia’

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 [...]

Hahahaha! I just read this and I think it’s hilarious.
Apparently, Australian soldiers have complained about the bad Dutch food being served in Kamp Holland, Afghanistan!
Of course, it’s perfectly understandable. While the food on Kamp Holland was… plentiful… and, well… food, it’s not exactly going to satisfy the gourmet palate (and apparently not even the palate [...]

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, [...]