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Press preview Erwin Olaf, Photomuseum & Gemeentemuseum The Hague

Press preview of Erwin Olaf premieres in the Photo museum and Gemeentemuseum....

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Beautiful Blue city Chefchaouen💙 👀🐐⛰️

Beautiful Blue city Chefchaouen💙 👀🐐⛰️

Dating back to the 15th century, Jewish refugees painted the houses blue to mirror the sky and remind them of God. After Marrakesh, this city should be on your bucket list when visiting Morocco

Every two years, the entire city needs to be painted a fresh colour of blue. The local government provides paint to and you can buy the blue pigments on the streets 🎨 Most art and clothes you can buy also has this blue color

This is the only walled inner city, a medina, in Morocco where you can’t get lost. Just look up and spot the twin 1,700-meter-high peaks that give Chefchaouen its name. The shape of the peaks refer to Chaoua 🐐 which means ‘horns of a goat,’ and Chef 👀 means ‘looks at.’

You can visit this city as a full daytrip from Tanger or Fez. Pack light for the steep, narrow streets. Thanks @leroyjoey for the day!📷 #chefchaouen #bluecitymorocco #bluecity

Les amis de Tintin! 💇‍♂️ @leroyjoey #mos

Les amis de Tintin! 💇‍♂️

@leroyjoey #mosquehassan2 #mosquesofworld #kuifje #casablanca

The Worlds Most Iconic Garden.. with the trademark

The Worlds Most Iconic Garden.. with the trademark color Majorelle Blue 💙😍💙

Thanks to the French designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé the @jardinmajorellemarrakech has been restored in its full glory since the 80s

But was the artist Jacques Majorelle who acquired this four-acre plot of land in Marrakech in 20s and commissioned the French architect Paul Sinoir to design a painting studio, which today is the museum.

The intense cobalt blue 🟦accents the art deco buildings, Moorish details, fountains, and edges of the garden, creating a striking contrast against the desert landscape of Morocco. In fact, the electric blue hue became a trademark color known as Majorelle Blue💙

The property became so expensive to maintain that he was forced to open it to the public in 1947 until his death in Paris in 1962. The garden gradually fell into a state of disrepair and was slated for development.

Fast forward to now, the garden is open and also houses the Musee Yves Saint Laurent @myslmarrakech paying tribute to the designer’s legacy and connection to Marrakech and a Berber museum

Simon says: book your time slot a few days before you visit Marrakesh and book *only* via the official website @jardinmajorellemarrakech since there are many fake websites online

When you visit the garden in the afternoon, when it’s most warm, as we did, you can enjoy the quieter atmosphere and take great pictures 🪴🌴
#lejardinmajorelle #paulsinoir #yvesaintlaurent
📷: thanks @leroyjoey

Invisible paint from green tea mixed with sugar wi

Invisible paint from green tea mixed with sugar will be visible after heating the watercolor canvas

@unesco world heritage site #aitbenhaddou is a desert oasis along the Sahara-Marrakesh trade route from the 11th century. It’s famous for it’s #earthenclay architecture😍

Also, Gladiator 2 is set to debut in November 2024 and was filmed in this city. More than 40 movies have been shot here, like Jewel of the Nile, the Living Daylights James Bond and Prince of Persia

With travelbuddy @leroyjoey 😀
#ouarzazate #marrakech #earthship #unescoworldheritage #movielocation #earthship #morocco @visit_morocco_

Supernature in 10 seconds💪☁️ @boijmans by @

Supernature in 10 seconds💪☁️ @boijmans by @berndnaut until July 7🤩

One cloud every 20 mins.
Ask the staff for the exact timing!

#snakkennaarboijmans #museum

One hour by boat north of Venezia, you will find M

One hour by boat north of Venezia, you will find Murano and Torcello. While Torcello is the oldest island, starting in the 7th, Murano is the most colourful town in Italy

According to legend, Burano wives painted their houses brilliant colours so their husbands could recognise the island from afar while at sea

❤️💛💜💙
The colours in these residences have developed throughout time, becoming much more vibrant than they were a century or two ago. This colourful practice, thought to have originated in the 16th century, is today strictly regulated.

To maintain the island’s particular attractiveness and continuity with its historic palette, homeowners must obtain government approval before repainting, according to the official website. What those rules are, remain a mystery.

If you step aside the main canal, you can still walk through quiet and colourful alleys😀

#burano#buranoisland#buranoitaly#buranocolors#buranovenice#buranoitalia#buranoitaly#veniceburano#italytravel#italy_vacations#italylovers#italytour#itália#italiabella#isolaburano#isoladiburano#architecture#veniceburano#iphonephotography

Love is God by @robertindiana marked the start of

Love is God by @robertindiana marked the start of the famous LOVE series

Before Indiana became synonymous with the word, the second and most-public-to-date appearance of the word LOVE ❤️ in his oeuvre occurred in the diamond-shaped, 1964 painting Love Is God💎

Indiana was commissioned to create this piece by the collector Larry Aldrich for an exhibition of his private collection he was planning. Inspired by Christianity while being gay in the 60s, he became fascinated by this word and the first iteration of “LOVE” appeared in a series of paintings also in 1964, evolving into the famous stacked-letter design with the tilted “🅾️”

This bold, graphic style captured the spirit of the 1960s—a time marked by a quest for peace and love amid social upheaval. The work you see here is via @mcnayart

📍Location of the exhibition: go to Piazza San Marco 105 and search for Procuratie Vecchie Venice. It’s on the second floor within a signs on the ground floor. More than 40 works track six decades of his artistic activity, starting from significant youth works, some of which are rarely exposed

#robertindiana The Sweet Mystery, side event of @labiennale April 17 - November 24, 2024

Viva Venice 🥳☀️☀️ #venicebiennale2024 f

Viva Venice 🥳☀️☀️
#venicebiennale2024 for the next days #venicebiennale

Say hello to @sigridcalon 🎪💕 My first meet

Say hello to @sigridcalon 🎪💕

My first meeting with Sigrid, we agreed on the power of art. In front of the Torentje, our prime minister’s office. Looking at it from within her own pink Torentje.

I’ve never seen anything by Sigrid that appears to be genuinely three-dimensional until now. See how her identifiable graphics accentuate the curving forms?😍

Her work is part of the exhibition: #blowupartthehague which opens tomorrow. Including works by Studio Job, Marcel Wanders and Mieke Meijer. Until June 2. Free entry

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Since 1982, the Torentje, often known as the Little Tower, in the Binnenhof in The Hague has served as the de facto office of the Dutch Prime Minister.🤓

This small octagonal building at the Hofvijver dates from around 1354. It was connected by a drawbridge (floating bridge) with the count’s garden. Like Sigrid’s is now! At the site of this garden, later east of the tower the Mauritshuis was built around 1640. It became the residence for John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen. Today the Mauritshuis is a museum. So, the tower has a history with art!

Thanks @cultuuraanjagers for the 📸 & @thisisthehague
Curated by @maryhessing

Daniel Buren colours the Santiago Calatrava-design

Daniel Buren colours the Santiago Calatrava-designed Liège-Guillemins station 💛❤️ *until 15 June 2024*

🌈🚆The work, entitled Comme tombées du ciel, les couleurs in situ et en mouvement: As if falling from the sky.

It harmonizes with the rhythmic architecture by #calatravaarchitecture and floods the railway station with a bold interplay of colorful light. Luik is just 30min away from Maastricht and 60 Min from Brussels via @nmbs.be

The #lightartwork by #danielburen has been deployed across the vast arrays of glass panels which enclose the station’s canopy, and will be constantly transform response to the shifting light throughout the day and changing seasons

Ten thousand square-meters of the station’s roof is wrapped with transparent and adhesive filters in seven colors. Five colors — pink, green, blue, white and orange — project a checkerboard pattern ♟️🌅from the glass panels while two others — yellow and red– cloak the side awnings in a form that is ‘reminiscent of the striped panels,’ a recurring feature of the artist’s work since 1960s❤️💛

Daniel Buren is a French Conceptual artist best known for his distinctive #sitespecificart installations of alternating stripe patterns. His concept of a “degree zero of painting,” which he developed in the early 1960s, is the artist’s hallmark approach to the conditions of making a work of art

The person who made is possible is the Liège entrepreneur Stéphan Uhoda who was awarded two prizes in March 2024. For its project to install a work by Daniel Buren at the Liège-Guillemins station, the #uhodagroup won both the #caïus prize for Corporate Sponsor of the Year, as well as the Public Prize

Isaac Julien: Once Again … (Statues Never Die) @

Isaac Julien: Once Again … (Statues Never Die) @isaacjulien @bonnefanten until 8/8/24

Bonnefanten hosts a large exhibition that pays tribute to Isaac’s oeuvre. This piece regarding the relationship between black artists and white collectors caught my interest the most. Simply watch it.

Part of the show 🕊️What Freedom Means To Me🕊️

The two men speaking are the US art collector Albert C Barnes and the philosopher and critic Alain Locke, who looks back over a century of black and white divide

#isaacjulien #whatfreedomistome #statuesofinstagram #lessonsofthehour #lookingforlangston #bonnefantenmuseum photo: @bnster010

Stress can save your eyes 👓 👀 Japanese arti

Stress can save your eyes 👓 👀

Japanese artist Mio Fujimaki @fjmkmo shows her work ‘Bruise’ in Maastricht. Part of the exhibition “In Vitro” at @bureau_europa which is running till 16th June 2024

Manufacturers of glass products often apply deliberate ‘stress’ to make the glass tempered, stronger. Once the glass breaks, it shatters into countless pieces as small as possible, which are less dangerous than large, sharp shards of glass. So the glass has stress to protect people.
With her installation you can look through the lenses at the ‘stress’ in the glass

This exhibition features a wide range of works, architectural scale models and antique artefacts, like stained glass window frames you can take home for free if you promise to take care of it. Contact @bureau_europa for more information

@visitmaastricht #japaneseart #glassartist #glassart #glassexhibition #bureaueuropa #packagedesign

Tulips and Dutch Design at the Dutch Embassy @nlin

Tulips and Dutch Design at the Dutch Embassy @nlinjapan 😀🇳🇱

🏛️#オランダ大使館 🌷#チューリップ 🧑‍🎨#オランダのデザイン

Finally it’s time for #hanami #花見 🌸🌸🌸

#sakurastreet #meguroriver #tokyo #friends
#東京デート#東京デート#最新スポット#映えスポット#映えスポット巡り#最新デートスポット #東京デートスポット#都内おで#かけ#東京花見#花見#花見デート#東京桜井東京桜井東京桜デート#桜#桜ライトアップ#ライトアップ日本の #桜最新デートスポット #東京デートスポット都内おでかけ#東京花

Inspired, grateful and also happy to finish the Ja

Inspired, grateful and also happy to finish the Japanese language course! @ef_tokyo 🥳🇯🇵

#ハッピー #がくせい #日本 #にほんご #efmoment

First person view, Go kart in Tokyo! 🏁
🏯+🗼+🚦=❤️🇯🇵

#bucketlist #imperialpalace #tokytower #shibuyacrossing #tokyovice #fastfurioustokyodrift #firstperson

@japan.kart next wish, a nightride😁

The Sumida Hokusai Museum in Tokyo celebrates Hoku

The Sumida Hokusai Museum in Tokyo celebrates Hokusai’s artistic legacy

On Hokasai-dori street, you can visit the world of Katsushika Hokusai, the legendary ukiyo-e artist who impressed audiences with masterpieces such as “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” and its own emoticon: 🌊

👉Swipe to see HOW #thegreatwaveofkanagawa is made

Founded in 2016, the Sumida Hokusai Museum, created by architect Kazuyo Sejima, honours Hokusai’s close connection to the Tokyo district where he was born and spent much of his life. Sumida refers to one of Tokyo’s special wards

The museum’s permanent collection includes high-resolution copies of Hokusai’s works as well as instructive displays about his artistic process and life. Special exhibitions about specific parts of his work or ukiyo-e art in general are one floor. On the upper floor the permanent collection

#architectureilike #japanesearchitecture
#sumidahokusaimuseum #hokusaimuseum
#hokusai #ukiyoe #tokyo #japan #kazuyosejima #sanaaarchitects #tokyoartsandculture #artmuseums

Konnichiwa Nippon!🇯🇵😀 Nowadays, getting

Konnichiwa Nippon!🇯🇵😀

Nowadays, getting lost is rare 📲🧭This new exhibition by @teamlab_borderless did just that!

High resolution projections adapt as you go by and are of higher quality than ever before. What truly makes it beautiful are the soundscapes complimented by subtle fragrances flowing across the rooms

They cap the maximum of visitors and it’s always sold out weeks before. But once you’re in, you have plenty of space to get lost. It’s one continuous world without boundaries

@azabudaihillsofficial #teamlabborderless #teamlab #immersive #borderless PS: I found a way to buy tickets one day in advance🤓

Marina is Back! ❤️ The Lady of the House, the

Marina is Back! ❤️ The Lady of the House, the Goddess of performance art is back @stedelijkmuseum with @abramovicinstitute

On show until July 14, a nicely curated and spacious show

TIP: Visit the expo twice. Save the date for June 5-16: Oceanview live!🪜🛀🚽🪑🍽️🛏️ 24h/12 days

#marinaabramovic#museum#videoart#experimentalart#experiment#artexhibition#marinaabramovic#artreview#contemporaryart#performanceart#artshare#artlovers#stedelijkmuseum#amsterdamart

So many brilliant works in one place: @tefaf 2024

So many brilliant works in one place: @tefaf 2024 it is!🤩🥂 only this week until March 14 in Maastricht

The works in order of appearance:

The Opus magnum via @carettoeocchinegro

Microcarvings from Mexico, 1560, rediscovered in Ipswich UK via @kunstkammergeorglaue with help of the @britishmuseum

The white marble statue, 1822, by #henryrossi 1822 and the landscape painting Evening, 1831, by #williamturner via @libson_yarker

The Virgin and the Child Enthroned, 2016, by #kehindewiley via @galerietemplon

Portrait with golden mask (video), 2010 by #marinaabramovic via @seankellygallery

#artfair #maastricht #tefaf #tefaf2024 #templongallery #seankellygallery #libsonyarker #kunstkammergeorglaue #tefaf2024 #renaissance #artreview

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