Heavy

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Ping Ping

@ Willem Kerseboom Gallery

This series of works by the Balinese artist Ping Ping is about a boy who is apparently under the spell of cartoon characters. The heroes are Superman, Batman and Zorro. Typical heroes for boys. 
LINK Willem Kerseboom Gallery

The Veendorp Collection

Life’s work of a caring collector
13 October 2012 - 17 March 2013

The collection of the Groningen art collector Reurt Jan Veendorp consists of more than 400 unique objects including paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and ceramics. The emphasis lies on Dutch art from the second half of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries.
LINK Groninger Museum

Melnik Wine

Year 2001 

Melnik area is one of the wine regions in Bulgaria. Traditions in cultivating vines here are very old. The beginning was in the middle Ages and with the developing of the town in XVII - XVIII c. they became stronger. Even now, in the old Melnik’s houses cellars could be seen, hewn in the rocks. Mild climate and the great number of sunny days in the year contribute for vine growing. Melnik wine is made of an Old Bulgarian sort of vine- wide-leaf Melnik vine. 
It is distinguished with its taste, deep red colour and splendid aroma. The fame of Melnik wine spreads all over the world. 
LINK wine tasting melnik

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo, Vesela Koleda i chestita nova godina, Sing Dan Fae Lok. Gung Hai Fat Choi, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Noflike Kryst en in Lokkich Nijjier, Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou, Meri Kurisumasu soshite Akemashite Omedeto, Wesołych Świąt i Szczęsliwego Nowego Roku, 
S nastupaiushchim Novym godom i s Rozhdestvom Khristovym!, Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun, Z novym rokom i s rizdvom Hrystovym. fijne feestdagen. 
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LI JIN

@ Today 
9 December 2012 - 6 January  2013 
No.32 Baiziwan Road, Chaoyang District
 Beijing

In a world where we are bombarded with sleek bodies and seductive poses, it can be refreshing when someone makes a point of exposing the flawed human figure that we all really are. Li Jin is such an artist. He doesn’t just portray the human form with all its imperfections and blemishes, but he celebrates them.  Relishing in the banal, he focuses on everyday activities such as bathing, eating, reading…or simply doing nothing at all. LINK LI JIN

Like & Dislike stamp

via mobypicture 
for your desk

LINK mobypicture

Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground

@ Tito's Atomic shelter

Project D-0 ARK Underground, stationed in the space of the Atomic shelter in Konjic, 45km south of Sarajevo, is known as Tito's atomic shelter. The CODE name is Istanbul. The shelter occupies a space of 6.500 square meters and consists of 12 connected blocks. 
The construction and existence of this bunker was kept secret until the 1990s. The object is still under the Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Biennial Directorate wants to protect it and keep it preserved with the help of artists and their artworks. 
LINK D-0 ARK

Constant Permeke

@ BOZAR

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the death of
Constant Permeke, BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts presents a major retrospective of 130 works by this important Flemish Expressionist. The American Club of Brussels is offering members and friends a guided visit to this exhibition which gives a contemporary vision of some of the themes explored by Permeke in the course of his career. Constant Permeke (1886-1952) was a Belgian painter and sculptor, and a leading figure in the Flemish Expressionist movement. This exhibition presents, chronologically and thematically, more than 130 paintings, drawings, and sculptures that reveal the major themes in Permeke’s œuvre. 
LINK BOZAR 

The American Indian

Art and Culture between Myth and Reality 
14 December 2012 – 14 April 2013 
@ Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam

Winter Count ( Yanktonai Sioux), 1911 
Detroit Institute of Arts / The Bridgeman Art Library, London 

In the winter of 2012/2013, De Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam will present an exhibition about the artistic traditions of American Indians, the indigenous peoples of the North American continent. Exploring seven different regions, the exhibition will paint a picture of the rich and diverse arts and cultures of these Native American peoples. More than two hundred works of art and artefacts will transport visitors to the prairies of the Midwest, the plains around the Great Lakes, the shores of California, Canada’s west coast, and the homes of the Navajo and the Inuit. LINK Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam

Edward Hicks

Edward Hicks was a coach and sign painter from an early age. 
In middle age he began to produce paintings of farm scenes and landscapes in a naive, or folk, style. Fearing that art was contrary to his Quaker religion but believing that it might bring meaning to life, he often framed his pictures with edifying verse.
LINK Hicks (athenaeum)

Chay Hawes

Retro Name Prints

This is an A3 digital print, customisable with the name of your choice. An ideal gift for a child, baby, or perhaps for a baby-boomer who remembers this vintage style from the first time around! The design owes much to the "Cartoon Modern" illustrations of the mid-twentieth century with a simple continuous line forming robots and a rocket - Ideal for Roberts, Ryans, Rubies, Rebeccas or any other "R" name!
LINK Chay Hawes

Nam June Paik

@ American Art Museum 
Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii 1995

When Nam June Paik came to the United States in 1964, the interstate highway system was only nine years old, and superhighways offered everyone the freedom to "see the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet." Walking along the entire length of this installation suggests the enormous scale of the nation that confronted the young Korean artist when he arrived. Neon outlines the monitors, recalling the multicolored maps and glowing enticements of motels and restaurants that beckoned Americans to the open road. The different colors remind us that individual states still have distinct identities and cultures, even in today's information age. LINK American Art Museum

Oskar Fischinger

@ EYE

From December 16th 2012 through March 17th 2013, EYE in collaboration with the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles presents a major exhibition on the work of Oskar Fischinger, a pioneer of the animation film and abstract cinema. This German-American avant-garde filmmaker made short films that were highly influential in the development of the animation film, music video and computer graphics. The exhibition Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967): Experiments in Cinematic Abstraction, which also focuses on his earliest experiments and inventions, is accompanied by an extensive film program.
LINK eye

Zhang Xiaogang

@ BEIJING VOICE

Zhang Xiaogang was born in 1958 in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in southern China. When the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, Zhang’s parents were forced to give up their government posts, leave Zhang and his three brothers behind, and go to a “study camp” in the countryside. Following the collapse of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, Zhang was accepted into the prestigious Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts in Chongqing in 1977. In 1995 Zhang Xiaogang presented his Bloodline: Big Family series in an exhibition entitled The Other Face. 
LINK BEIJING VOICE

klek-shops in Sofia

via Trendbeheer, Niels Post

"klek-shop" is the Bulgarian expression for a shop where you have to cower down, if you want to buy something, because they are celar-shops and offering and buying goes through the small celar-window. they are one of the many private solutions in the economical crisis since the change of system in 1990 in Bulgaria and worth to be shown in a speciale feature with interviews etc. (as intended by me somewhen). LINK klek-shops

Mike Kelley

@ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
December 15, 2012 - April 1, 2013
 

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents MIKE KELLEY, the first major international traveling exhibition organized by the Stedelijk since its expansion and renovation. MIKE KELLEY is the largest exhibition of the artist's work to-date and the first comprehensive survey since 1993.  Widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954-2012) produced a body of deeply innovative work mining American popular culture and both modernist and alternative traditions-which he set in relation to relentless self- and social examinations, both dark and delirious. LINK Stedelijk Museum

Sandra van Nieuwland

Sandra van Nieuwland has just been eliminated in The Voice of Holland. The sensation of this season is not in the finals, where participants with lesser standing are. An incredible missed opportunity. But perhaps just as well. It seems also funny as next week, not one of the finalists is number one in the top 30, but Sandra van Nieuwland the actual winner. LINK Dutchpopchart

Konstantin Achkov

Cardboard chair

My interest in the Tensegrity sculpture and my experience, have naturally led to my future development in the direction of the same style. Further improving my know-how as a PhD student,
I was looking for applying the Tensegrity style in the furniture design.
In my opinion, this is a new basis of the form-creation, demanded by the logics of the minimalism and the natural approach not only to the sculpture but also to the architecture.
LINK Achkov

Sinterklaas

@ the Dam Amsterdam

Sinterklaas [sɪntər'klaːs] (or more formally Sint Nicolaas or Sint Nikolaas; Saint Nicolas in French; Sankt Nikolaus in German) is a traditional winter holiday figure still celebrated today in the Low Countries, including the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as French Flanders and Artois. He is also well known in territories of the former Dutch Empire, including Aruba, Suriname, Curaçao, Bonaire, and Indonesia. He is one of the sources of the holiday figure of 
Santa Claus in North America.
Although he is usually referred to as Sinterklaas, he is also known as De Goedheiligman (The Good Holy Man), Sint Nicolaas [sɪnt 'nikolaːs] (Saint Nicholas) or simply as De Sint (The Saint). He is celebrated annually on Saint Nicholas' eve (5 December) in the Netherlands or on the morning of 6 December in Belgium and Northern France. Originally, the feast celebrates the name day of Saint Nicholas – patron saint of children, sailors, and the city of Amsterdam, among others. 
Sint Nicholas being a bishop and this geographical spread make clear that the feast in this form has a Roman Catholic background.
LINK Sinterklaas

THE ARTS WRITERS GRANT PROGRAM

LINK arts writers

The Grateful Dead Archive

The Grateful Dead Archive Online (GDAO) is a socially constructed collection comprised of over 45,000 digitized items drawn from the UCSC Library’s extensive Grateful Dead Archive (GDA) and from digital content submitted by the community and global network of Grateful Dead fans. LINK Grateful Dead

St. Nicholas Day

Why Celebrate? 

DPhoto

So tell a story of St. Nicholas generous example of giving in secret to those in need. Then encourage children to identify a kindly "Nicholas deed" to do for someone else. Have children fill their shoes with pieces of carrot or bits of hay for his white horse or donkey. Place shoes outside bedroom doors or on the hearth. See that a candy treat 
(a candy cane represents Bishop Nicholas' crozier) and simple gift appears by morning on December 6th. 
LINK stnicholascenter

Hermès Designs Stamps

for French Post 

Hermès is turning some of its iconic scarf designs into stamps for the French postal service’s annual Valentine’s Day “Heart” collection. The 2013 edition will feature the French luxury brand’s “De tout coeur” scarf design by Zoé Pauwels. 
Since 2000, La Poste has previously collaborated on the project with designers including Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix, Chanel, Givenchy and Lanvin. 

This edition will mark the first time it will be issuing a sheet of five stamps with different designs. The illustrations incorporate images of swans, hearts, shooting stars and a lyre, instrument of the messenger god Hermès.

The stamps will be available in all (French) post offices from Jan. 28. 
LINK nydailynews

A presentation of chmkoome's blog at Kunstvlaai 2012 Amsterdam

chmkoome's blog at Kunstvlaai 2012.
For the occasion I invited 19 artists to show one artwork. During Kunstvlaai I wrote a diary with conté pencil on drawingpaper. These diary - drawings were put between the artworks each day. Participating artists are Maarten Schepers, Ellen Rodenberg, Machiel van Soest, G.J. de Rook, Topp & Dubio, Hans Ensink op Kemna, Roeland Langendoen, Maarten Janssen, Willem Besselink, Jochem Rotteveel, Tijl Orlando Frijns, Erik Jan Ligtvoet, André Kruysen, Jeroen Bosch, Niels Post, Mark de Weijer, Tonio de Roover, André Wiehager, Pim Piët, Petra Trenkel and Kees Koomen.

An exhibition by chmkoome’s weblog and Kees Koomen

@ Kunstvlaai 2012

The Malieveld initiative 
from Den Haag. Saturdaymorning December 1 from 11.00 to 12.00 h
,

Participation is free to everybody 
We gather 11.00 h at the entrance of Kunstvlaai.

Performance BMB - con.    Saturday December 1 at 16.00 h, 
performance will take place in the Beatrixpark.
LINK chmkoome

RON VAN DER ENDE - 'EDGE OF SPACE'

+ GUESTS: BAS LOUTER & BORIS TELLEGEN 
@ Ron Mandos Friday 30 november

Gallery open 12.00 – 20.00

Festive Opening EDGE OF SPACE 17.00 – 20.00

RON VAN DER ENDE

EDGE OF SPACE will exhibit the ingenius sculptural works of Ron van der Ende (1965, Rotterdam). Van der Ende specialises in wall-mounted bas-reliefs that he constructs from salvage wood. He utilises the original colour and texture of the wood to create a realistic mosaic representation of a chosen subject. The artist adds perspective to his reliefs to enhace the depth and realism in the work. EDGE OF SPACE is the term for the border of the earth’s atmosphere, the end of our world and the beginning of space 

BAS LOUTER

Using charcoal, pastels and ink Bas Louter (1972, Alkmaar) creates portraits in which the face or parts of it are substituted by abstract geometric patterns. The images that Louter uses for these works originate from the entertainment industry; headshots of actors and pop artists. This intervention into these portraits creates a disorientating and empty character. 
LINK Ron Mandos

KELLEY WALKER

Using the potency of advertising media, Kelley Walker’s prints appropriate iconic cultural images, digitally altering them to highlight underlying issues of politics and consumerism. In Black Star Press, Walker presents large-scale billboard-like canvases of racial unrest. Set at 90 degree angles, the images of a white policeman and black youth literally portray a world turned on end. Splattered with abstracted patterns in symbolic white and chocolate, Walker’s gestures mimic violence and contrast, merging ethical corruption and graffiti pop. Printed as a dyptich, Black Star Press is desensitised through repetition, replicating the multiplicity of mass media as vast fields of anesthetised brutality. 
LINK KELLEY WALKER

Aram Bartholl

DVD Dead Drop 
permanent installation at MMI 2012 
Commissioned by the Museum of Moving Image NYC

For this new commissioned work, artist Aram Bartholl (Berlin, b. 1972) will embed an inconspicuous, slot-loading DVD burner into the side of the Museum, available to the public 24 hours a day. Visitors who find the Dead Drop and insert a blank DVD-R will receive a digital art exhibition, a collection of media, or other featured content curated on a monthly cycle by Bartholl or selected artists. DVD Dead Drop imbues the act of data transfer with a tangibility left behind in a world of cloud computing and appstores, using a medium - the digital versatile disc -that is quickly becoming another artifact of the past.
LINK Aram Bartholl

The Wall

With: Paneto, Quirijn van Tiel, Dolf Pauw, Blokker, a gadget, Jeroen Bosch, Keith Haring, 2 Chinese watercolors, Persian miniature, Kees Koomen, Indian gouache and Rumen Moskou. LINK dolfpauw

I told you

seven years ago

LINK I told you

CHMKoome / Kees Koomen @ Kunstvlaai

Plafond, Kees Koomen @ Malieveld

On Saturday, November 24 and Saturday, December 1 in the Beatrix Park in Amsterdam at the invitation of chmkoome's blog a meeting of the Malieveld Initiative organized. 
Where participants normally on Saturday 11.00 and 12.00 on the Malieveld in The Hague from the classical context art present to the autonomy of the artwork again to conquer the Kunstvlaai 2012. Following happen to Amsterdam to move and there in the Beatrix Park near St. Nicholas Lyceum their work to show.  
Participation is free, anyone who has a job that he or she wants to show or perform may participate. We come together at 10.45 am at the entrance of the Kunstvlaai and go from there to the park. St. Nicholas Lyceum Irenestraat 21 Amsterdam. LINK Kunstvlaai

Regarding Structure

@ de Zwarte Ruyter
Exhibition runs from 18th of November till December 7th.

An exhibition composed by Sarie Nijboer with works by Gemis Luciani (IT) / Csilla Klenyánszki (HU) / Thomas de Rijk (NL) / Edwin Stolk (NL) and Virginie Mossé (FR).
In search of finding hidden patterns in existing ones this exhibition will take you on a road-trip through an abstract land of geometric signs, constructed dialogues and graphic rhythms. Using existing information to strip, connect and abstract these artists show each a different approach of interpretation. It will be important that we look for patterns that are already in our system to create new possibilities out of it. We have to go back to the basic and look at what we already have. We just need to deal with it differently. LINK de Zwarte Ruyter

INTERRUPTUS

BY 2CREATIVO

Stop trial and error switching just to turn the right lights on.
Unwhite proposed surtido platform to create a new collection of vinyls the way we love. LINK INTERRUPTUS

50by70

To celebrate the Beatles’ 50th anniversary 50by70 has published the first ever set of fine art prints of the stunning artwork from the classic 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine.Yellow Subversion - The Artwork of Yellow Submarine is a strictly limited edition boxed set of five full colour screen prints accompanied by a book featuring an essay by the legendary Simpsons writer, showrunner and producer Josh Weinstein who describes how the film inspired his career in animation. 
LINK 50by70

The Soviet Myth

Socialist Realism 1932-1960 
@ Drents Museum Assen 

Aleksandr Dejneka, 1927

Arkadij Rylov, 1934

Kazimir Malevitsj, 1930-1931

For the first time in the Netherlands, from November 17, 2012 till 
June 9 2013, the Drents Museum presents a wide selection of the most impressive and characteristic art created in the Soviet Union during the Stalin dictatorship. The exhibition ‘The Soviet Myth. Socialist Realism 1932 -1960’ contains some 70 paintings idealising the Soviet society. In the new exhibition wing, monumental and dramatic works by artists such as Alexander Deineka, Alexander Samokhvalov, Isaak Brodskij, Arkadi Plastov and Kazimir Malevtsj will be shown. One of the highlights in this exhibition is ‘On peaceful fields‘(1950) by Andrei Mylnikov, measuring an imposing two by four metres. The paintings are on loan from the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, which houses the largest and most important collection in this field. Complementary to this exhibition, on the first floor of the old building, the museum shows an exposition entitled: ‘Together and Alone. Life in Russia from 1900 till now’, which allows the visitor a view into the life of the ‘ordinary Russians’. LINK Drents Museum

Thomas Walker Luckey

Thomas Walker Luckey, was an artist, sculptor and architect renowned for his one-of-a-kind climbing sculptures. A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, Tom's fascination with movement and his desire to create positive spaces inspired a diverse portfolio including merry go-rounds, a convertible staircase/slide, and the iconic "Luckey Climbers" that have delighted children and adults alike, in cities across America and the world. Tom Luckey was a visionary, a creative genius, a legendary optimist, an exuberant showboat, and an infamous fun-maker. He was an avid collector of friends, regardless of age; all that mattered was whether you were willing to take a leap with him towards his ultimate goal: superlative joy. Throughout his career, Tom welcomed challenges and was stimulated by obstacles. He embraced uncertainty in his art and adapted to unanticipated hurdles. In 2005, he suffered a tragic accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. This was a change in his life most would find impossible, but Tom was often heard to say that "falling on my head was the best thing that ever happened to me." It was a brave statement that he somehow made believable with his remarkable wit and optimism. Indeed, his career took off and his social life flourished during the final chapters of his life, testament to his remarkable talent and insatiable curiosity. 
LINK luckeyclimbers

/ Where Art We Going?

@ NEST today

Each year we reserve a One Nest Stand for students of the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (KABK) and ask them to react on the theme of the past exhibition. In this case, the students will take 'How Art Things?' as a starting point. To reflect on the world they will be part of after their studies, their fear of a rejection by the society we live in, or their hopes for acceptation and fame. 
LINK NEST

Sayeh Sarfaraz

mémoire d’éléphant (memory of an elephant) 
@ galerie antoine ertaskiran

Since 2010, Sayeh Sarfaraz, an artist of Iranian descent, has had eight solo exhibitions in France, Germany, New York and Quebec. She has won numerous awards and is the recipient of five research grants. In her first solo exhibition at galerie antoine ertaskiran, Sarfaraz is presenting a large installation in which toys, drawings and projection serve as a somewhat naïve pictorial language, evoking both her personal history and the political conflict raging in the Middle East. This installation speaks of contemporary art's involvement in social and political issues.

The title of the exhibition, mémoire d'éléphant (memory of an elephant), is a direct reference to the collective memory of the people scarred by violence and dictatorships. Each work is a testament, a witness to the political upheaval. The accumulation of small objects, the repeated use of Persian writing, the miniaturization of everyday life, echoing ancestral Persian traditions: for Sayeh Sarfaraz, they are all ways of interpreting the oppression and suffering endured by the people of that region. Even if the family home seems to be a safe haven, the outside world remains increasingly dangerous. 
LINK galerie antoine ertaskiran

Maria Lassnig

The Location of Pictures 
17.11.2012 - 28.04.2013   

Curator: Günther Holler-Schuster

@ Neue Galerie Graz, Upper Floor

Maria Lassnig (b. 1919, Austria) is one of the most important contemporary artists and can be seen as a pioneer in many areas of art today.

 Her œuvre reveals a basic problem every person is confronted with. It is the question of the picture, of the visual at a fundamental level, although the visible world can only partially be defined as a location of the visual. More essential in Maria Lassnig's work seems the awareness that the human body represents a medium that generates pictures. 

The exhibition in the Neue Galerie Graz presents works by the artist - some of them not yet shown - from all creative periods, an œuvre that traces the developments from Art Informel to representational painting in exemplary fashion. The solo show takes as its theme the processes of turning external reality into images, as well as the manifestation of inner pictures. 
LINK Neue Galerie Graz

Zarina Bhimji and Dirk Braeckman

17 Nov 2012 — 31 Mar 2013 
de Appel arts centre 
Opening: Friday 16 November 18:00 - 21:00 hrs

This winter de Appel arts centre simultaneously presents solo projects by the Belgian photographer/filmmaker Dirk Braeckman and the British artist Zarina Bhimji. Braeckmans sensitive and large-scale photographs in shades of grey do not tell elaborate stories but are charged with an atmosphere which makes them “tick away like time bombs”, in the words of the author Luc Sante. The suggestive force and narrative potential of images are just as essential for Bhimji, whose latest film Yellow Patch (2011) has its Dutch premiere in de Appel arts centre. LINK de Appel

Borislav Stoev and Stoyan Anastasov

Kids 1966 (детска серия 1966) 
Post Stamps
Collection: Dolf Pauw

Borislav Stoev was born on September 21, 1927 in Sofia. He studied graphics and book illustration at the Art Academy in Sofia. He was publisher of children's books and artistic director of the House of the Bulgarian artists. In 1985 he became professor at the Art Academy in Sofia in the box book illustration. He has worked in the field of graphics and illustration. He lives and works in Sofia. In the time of the revolution, he was Director of the artists association and faced the task of the transition to a new structure to realize. 
Stoyan Anastasov illustrates children books.  LINK Socmus

Stefan Kanchev

Post stamps 
Collection: Dolf Pauw

Stefan Kirov Kanchev,  applied graphic artist, honored with the Bulgarian State title “National artist” in 1971. He was born on 6 August 1915, in Kalofer, Bulgaria. His father was an iconographer. He studied mural painting in the National Art Academy (1940 - 1945) in the class of prof. Dechko Uzunov. Kanchev worked in all the areas of applied arts. He was an author of numerous covers of books with folklore fairytales, posters, trade marks, postcards, advertisements, forms and envelopes, post stamps, labels, packages and etc. His works are imaginative, with calm and clear composition, felicitous relation between fonts and shapes, clear forms and creative ideas. He got his inspiration from the Bulgarian folklore and traditions. 
LINK Stefan Kanchev

Printed Matter

November 7th Update 
We have reopened!

This has been a difficult week, the overriding feeling at the shop today has been a positive one. During the week we have received a humbling show of support from artists in the community, local gallerists, ex-employees, present and former interns, passersby, our non-profit peers, and other volunteers. Friends and strangers have biked in and walked from Brooklyn and elsewhere to lend a hand with the daunting and rather messy clean up. Rest assured we are working hard to get Printed Matter open as soon as possible and are hopeful this will be soon. LINK Printed Matter

Raphael

Raphael


From 28 September to 6 January 2013 
@ Teylers Museum

In collaboration with Vienna's Albertina Museum, Teylers Museum is proud to present the Netherlands' first exhibition on Raphael (1483 - 1520). With Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael was one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance: his Madonnas and Vatican frescos are world famous, and his refined style has been admired and emulated down the centuries. 

Paintings on display in the Netherlands for the first time 
More than 90 drawings by the master and his school are on display in Haarlem for more than three months. 
Due to their fragility, the drawings are rarely exhibited. The inclusion of two paintings from the Uffizi in Florence and the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin is particularly notable. They show us what Raphael's drawings led to. Raphael's paintings have never before been exhibited in the Netherlands. Together, these artworks give an excellent overview of his glittering career. 
LINK Teylers Museum