Written by dr. Jos ten Berge A happy day for Jos ten Berge! Besides teaching job with the Art and Culture department at the VU, he is also chairman of the Foundation De Stadshof Collection. In that capacity he recently received a donation of beautiful works of art. De Stadshof collects Outsider Art: work by… Read More Better than Escher…
Written by prof. dr. Hans Fidom Looking back & and an invitation: join the lecture/workshop on samba on Tuesday 16October with Jean Kleeb and Nadine Balbeisi (16A00, 16.00h) One of the highlights of the International VU Symposium ‘As Slowly As Possible’ (24-26 May 2018) undoubtedly was the keynote by Wolfgang Ernst, Humboldt University Berlin. Ernst… Read More Music: Listening and Philosophy
Written by dr. Ingrid Vermeulen Collecting Dutch and Flemish Art in Germany 1600-1900 From the 17th century on, Germany was a major market for Dutch and Flemish paintings, drawings and prints of the Golden Age. Although this market remains important until the present day, its peak was during the 18th century: Netherlandish art was passionately… Read More Invitation – Symposium Collecting Dutch and Flemish Art in Germany 1600-1900
Written by dr. Ivo Blom The various images throughout the text are filmstills from the book trailer which you can view below! Dear students, colleagues, and other readers of this blog, Permit me to give you some insight into my new book, the fruit of many years of hard labour: Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film… Read More Lifting a Corner of the Veil – Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art
Women’s creativity since the modern movement (1918-2018): toward a new perception and reception by Ilja Meijer Architecture, design, engineering and related fields have long been – and sometimes are still – perceived as masculine dominated professions. Since 2014, the internationally oriented MoMoWo – Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement project has aimed to draw attention… Read More MoMoWo Symposium 2018 in Turin, Italy
Hi everybody! My name is Lieke Haan, I am 20 years old and I’m in my second year of MKDA. Currently I am in Florence with the course Buitenlandse Excursie, so I am writing this blog from the garden while I am sitting in the sun to tell you something about the board year I… Read More Students’ Stories: Lieke Haan
by Katja Kwastek “Make thinking attractive again” was one comment of cultural studies icon and ASCA (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis) founder Mieke Bal on the question if we have a chance to counter Donald Trump, during the final roundtable of our international symposium ‘As slowly as possible’. It took place at the VU a bit… Read More “Make thinking attractive again” – report from the AS(L)AP symposium
