- Until April of this year, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a peer of the Louvre, the Prado and the Hermitage, was mostly closed for almost a decade, thanks to an extensive, expensive and frequently controversial renovation. That hiatus, during which some of the finest Rembrandts, Vermeers and other masterpieces of Dutch a…
- Levon remembers his childhood in Turkey: love, political brutality. A bloody comedy. Also a modern crime story about Armenian terrorists and Turkish secret agents, about Kurds tragedy.Askarian’s most recent project is another meditation on the artist in exile. Like the filmmaker Avetik and the real-life composer Komita…
- It was a fateful coincidence that in 2014, just when the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam was staging an exhibition of Crimean artworks, Russia annexed the region. So now the question arises of who should the artworks be returned to? To the museums in Crimea who had been so kind as to loan them out? Or to Ukraine, pe…