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72-535: The Collection of the Miniature Museum is based on the private collection of Ria and Lex Daniels, Amsterdam art collectors and retired gallery owners. In the late 70s, the Daniels began to collect miniature artworks for their private collection. These works were initially displayed on a wall in their private home, but a renovation pushed them to reconsider what to do with their collection. What started out as

144-525: A "completely separate goal ... than to museums of the time in the Netherlands." The final result was "not a pompous temple of art ... but a [museum of] simple, sober and accessible appearance; not imposing but inviting." Nevertheless, this sober and accessible appearance was not to the liking of all early critics, more familiar with museums in the grand classical style. The use of everyday bricks rather than more opulent stones such as marble and granite

216-615: A "post-colonial" hybrid, Shonibare questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions. While he often makes work inspired by his own life and experiences around him, he takes inspiration from around the world; as he has said: "I'm a citizen of the world, I watch television so I make work about these things." A key material in Shonibare's work since 1994 is the brightly coloured "African" fabric (Dutch wax-printed cotton) that he buys himself from Brixton market in London. "But actually,

288-492: A Dutch Fashion Museum. Hefting was also responsible for the creation of the Dijsselhof Room, an authentic creation of the architecture and interior design of the room of a nineteenth-century artist. In the museum’s ongoing acknowledgement of the place of women art, Hefting especially commissioned needleworkers to recreate the hanging designs in the room. The room still exists now. Unfortunately, her time as director

360-530: A music library, with an emphasis on European music. The collection mainly includes fortepianos, wind and plucked string instruments. Also, there are instruments from other cultures and contemporary electronic instruments. In addition, the collection includes prints, posters, drawings and photographs relating to 'performance practice'. Part of the collection came from the Scheurleer Music History Museum, that lasted from 1905 to 1935, and

432-529: A new building for modern art. It was envisaged as being part of a huge complex of cultural institutions, with no less than five separate museums. The First World War delayed any formal decision, but by 1918, the city council not only decided to approve van Gelder's ideas, but establish a Department for Art and Science (in Dutch: Dienst voor Kunsten en Wetenschappen ) to give continued government support. The renowned Dutch architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage

504-594: A permanent acquisition of Shonibare's Wind Sculpture (SG) III , making it a first for the African continent. The sculpture will be unveiled in February 2019, increasing the British-Nigerian artist's visibility on the continent where he grew up. Shonibare has collaborated with Bellerby & Co, Globemakers . Shonibare's first solo exhibition was in 1989 at Byam Shaw Gallery, London. During 2008–09, he

576-549: A problem, however, and temporary exhibitions continued to be shown at other locations in The Hague. 1912 saw the appointment of Hendrik van Gelder, who was already the official archivist for The Hague, as director of the Gemeentemuseum. His leadership would prove vital to the museum's dramatic evolution. Renewing the building was his primary concern. Extensive investigation from a couple of years before had confirmed that

648-432: A range of media which include painting, sculpture, photography, installation art, and, more recently, film and performance. He examines, in particular, the construction of identity and tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories. Mining Western art history and literature, he asks what constitutes our collective contemporary identity today. Having described himself as

720-711: A space of maximum 5,000 m2. Within 2 years Berlage had produced designs that would result in the current building. Work started in 1931, but it would turn out to be Berlage's last design. The architect died in 1934. The work was faithfully completed under the direction of Berlage's son-in-law, E.E. Strasser. It was officially opened on 29 May 1935. The museum soon began receiving international attention. It received loans of paintings by artists such as Van Gogh, Manet and Monet, and organising exhibition focussed on contemporary French art, and another on oriental influences on French art. Shortly after opening, an international congress of museum workers gathered in The Hague, celebrating

792-501: A spontaneous idea, quickly turned into a serious endeavor, and by 1990 they had devised a plan for a miniature museum. The Miniature Museum was officially established in 1990. In the following three decades, a large number of artists were invited to contribute to the growing collection of the Miniature Museum. Since early on, the museum has been linked to the Medical Cancer Research Foundation, supporting

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864-581: A usual ship in a bottle , yet much smaller than the real HMS Victory , in fact a 1:30-scale model, Shonibare's Nelson 's Ship in a Bottle , was "the first commission on the Fourth Plinth to reflect specifically on the historical symbolism of Trafalgar Square, which commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, and will link directly with Nelson's column." The work was placed there on 24 May 2010 and remained until 30 January 2012, being widely admired. In 2011,

936-409: Is a stamp by Robert Longo measuring 2 x 2,5 cm and a landscape painting the size of a pin by Karel Sirag. Sirag’s work measures less than 1 cm diameter and was painted using a miniature brush. In the pre-internet days of the 80s, Carl Andre pranked the museum by sending an envelope to the museum with an accompanying letter stating to be very careful when opening the envelope as not to lose

1008-412: Is little to admire on the outside of Berlage's final creation, but on the inside there are many attractive features, and in general the whole complex of rooms creates the pleasant, calming and intimate feel. Although the building appears constructed from distinctive yellow bricks, Berlage was enthusiastic about the possibilities of modern materials, such as reinforced concrete. As photographs taken during

1080-431: Is on view in the print room. The collection of fashion items, accessories, jewellery, drawings and prints includes historical items as well as modern ones by designers such as Cristóbal Balenciaga , Gabrielle Chanel , André Courrèges , John Galliano and Fong Leng . For reasons of conservation items are only shown at temporary exhibitions. The music collection includes a large collection of musical instruments and

1152-753: Is the first sculpture to be permanently installed outside the NMAA's entrance. He runs Guest Projects , a project space for emerging artists based in Broadway Market , east London. He is extending this to spaces in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2023 his first work of public art was unveiled in Leeds. Entitled Hibiscus Rising , it commemorates the life and death of David Oluwale , a Nigerian homeless man persecuted by Leeds City Police. Shonibare's work explores issues of colonialism alongside those of race and class, through

1224-559: Is well known for creating headless, life-size sculptural figures meticulously positioned and dressed in vibrant wax cloth patterns in order for history and racial identity to be made complex and difficult to read. In his 2003 artwork Scramble for Africa , Shonibare reconstructs the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, when European leaders negotiated and arbitrarily divided the continent in order to claim African territories. By exploring colonialism, particularly in this tableaux piece,

1296-717: The Art Fund launched a campaign and successfully raised money for the purchase and relocation of the sculpture to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich , where it found its new permanent home. Other works include printed ceramics, and cloth-covered shoes, upholstery, walls and bowls. In October 2013, Shonibare took part in Art Wars at the Saatchi Gallery curated by Ben Moore . The artist

1368-519: The Guinness book of records as such, opposite the largest museum in the world, the Hermitage . The largest work in the collection is ‘Jumped Up Jesus’ by Edward Kienholz (42 x 13 x 17 cm). It is the only work in the collection of its size. However, for Kienholz's work which usually encompasses life-sized installation, the piece is considered a miniature. The smallest works in the collection

1440-788: The Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC, in October 2009. In 2010, Nelson's Ship in a Bottle became his first public art commission on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square . On 3 December 2016, one of Shonibare's "Wind Sculpture" pieces was installed in front of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC. The painted fibreglass work, titled "Wind Sculpture VII",

1512-493: The Young British Artists generation. Following his studies, Shonibare worked as an arts development officer for Shape Arts , an organisation that makes arts accessible to people with disabilities. In 1999, Shonibare created four alien-like sculptures that he named "Dysfunctional Family", the piece consisting of a mother and daughter, both coloured in textures of white and blue, and a father and son textured in

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1584-476: The "clear and honest" appearance of the museum. A year later an international conference on women's rights was hosted at the Gemeentemuseum. The main speaker, Margery Corbett Ashby , spoke of her "admiration for the building, which represented the modern life of a great city". The museum was noted for its progressive attitude to women's art: the original layout included a room dedicated to female artists (such as Coba Ritsema and Ina Hooft ), an unusual decision at

1656-490: The 1990s. Exhibiting in Amsterdam at the time, the artist was approached by the Daniels about making an artwork for the collection. Pointing at his large hands, Spoerri said that that was impossible, and added that he was lacking the material to assemble one of his Tableau Pièges on a miniature scale. Upon hearing this, Lex Daniels headed to a toy shop and purchased a number of small utensils for doll houses. Spoerri returned on

1728-877: The Dutch architect H.P. Berlage . The KM21 (museum for contemporary art) and Fotomuseum Den Haag (The Hague museum for photography) are part of the Kunstmuseum, though not housed in the same building and with a separate entrance fee. The new director Margriet Schavemaker started on 1 June 2024. She replaces Benno Tempel, who left as of 1 November 2023. The museum's collection of modern art includes works by international artists ( Edgar Degas , Claude Monet , Pablo Picasso , Egon Schiele , Frank Stella , Lee Bontecou , Henri Le Fauconnier and many others) and Dutch artists ( Constant , Vincent van Gogh , Johan Jongkind , Pyke Koch , Piet Mondriaan , Charley Toorop , Jan Toorop , and many others). The Kunstmuseum has one of

1800-465: The Dutch artist Frans Helfferich were shown. The latter was introduced by the new director, Gerhardus Knuttel, who took over in 1941. But as the war continued, things became significantly more difficult. In 1942, the museum was earmarked by the Nazi occupiers to be destroyed as part of the creation of a defensive line in the city. Only after heavy protests from museum staff were the plans altered. However, it

1872-581: The Dutch curator Wim van Sinderen . Due to the size of the miniature collection, which ranged in the 2000s, a part of the collection could not be displayed at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag . Instead, the Haags Historisch Museum exhibited this part of the collection from 2017 to 2018. The collection of the Miniature Museum consists of around 2000 miniature artworks by more than 1050 artists, who have made an artwork especially for

1944-454: The Dutch surrender and cessation of fighting meant that the artworks could quickly be reinstalled, with the paintings replaced in their frames. The museum reopened in late May 1940. Museum life continued seemingly as normal immediately after the German occupation. Concerts continued to be given. Exhibitions such as " Still Lifes and Flowers from 30 Contemporary Painters " and one dedicated to

2016-471: The Kunstmuseum, excluding KM21 and the Fotomuseum The current home of the Kunstmuseum is a purpose built museum designed by the Dutch architect, H.P. Berlage . Although Berlage died just before its completion (with his son-in-law Emil Emanuel Strasser overseeing the building's final touches), it stayed faithful to Berlage's distinctive, inventive vision. It has been called "the dream museum", with

2088-626: The Miniature Museum at the AMC was designed by Ria and Lex Daniels themselves. In 2013 a new building was built in context of the Miniature Museum’s exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. It was inspired and based on an early design by Theo van Doesburg of the Dutch art movement De Stijl and was constructed by the exhibition architects Kossman DeJong. The museum has attracted over 1.000.000 visitors so far. All proceeds made in

2160-508: The Nazis. At the end of the war ended there was considerable damage to the building. V2 rockets had destroyed the roofs and glass had been blown out the windows. There was considerable flooding, and doors and flooring had either been taken away or become unusable. Work immediately began on the repair so that the museum could come back to life. Soon after the war, the Gemeentemuseum appointed its first female director, Victoria Hefting – one of

2232-752: The South East , now in the Haags Historisch Museum. The museum collection continued to grow through the later parts of the nineteenth century, outgrowing the space at Korte Beestenmarkt. In 1883, the curators asked the council for funds for the refurbishment of the St Sebastian building in Korte Vijverberg, a short distance from the original setting for the museum. The new location was opened in July 1884. Space continued to be

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2304-404: The St Sebastian building was completely unsuited to the collection – the building was vulnerable to fire, the quality of light poor, the rooms too small. Additionally, the original merging of two collections (of older, and contemporary art) confused the purpose and presentation of the museum. Within a couple years of his appointment, van Gelder presented ideas to mayor and council of The Hague for

2376-561: The Stephen Friedman Gallery, London . Of the four nominees, he seemed to be the most popular with the general public that year, with a BBC website poll resulting in 64 per cent of voters stating that his work was their favourite. Shonibare became an Honorary Fellow of Goldsmiths' College in 2003, was awarded an MBE in 2004, received an Honorary Doctorate (Fine Artist) of the Royal College of Art in 2010 and

2448-470: The association included the artists Philip Sadée , Hendrik Willem Mesdag , Jacob Maris , Salomon Verveer and Johannes Stroebel. The association also had many artists and notables among its members, including Princes Frederik and Alexander of the Netherlands. The association started by purchasing paintings and was soon looking for exhibition space. The St Sebastian building and Panorama Mesdag , among others, were used temporarily as accommodation. By 1871,

2520-715: The colours of red and yellow. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennial and at leading museums worldwide. He was notably commissioned by Okwui Enwezor at documenta XI in 2002 to create his most recognised work, Gallantry and Criminal Conversation , which launched him on the international stage. In 2004, he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize for his Double Dutch exhibition at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam and for his solo show at

2592-460: The construction indicate, the structural parts of the museum were built from iron and concrete. Only when this was finished were the bricks added as decorative elements around the concrete framework. To emphasise the decorative nature of the bricks, Berlage stipulated that each layer of bricks must be perpendicular to the level below it (and therefore be much weaker than the usual parallel layering of bricks). Another unique aspect of Berlage's design

2664-503: The contemporary context of globalisation . A hallmark of his art is the brightly coloured Ankara fabric he uses. As Shonibare is paralysed on one side of his body, he uses assistants to make works under his direction. Yinka Shonibare was born in London , England, on 9 August 1962, the son of Olatunji Shonibare and Laide Shonibare. When he was three years old, his family moved to Lagos , Nigeria , where his father practised law. When he

2736-637: The council had taken the decision to start a gemeentemuseum (council museum), including both historical artworks and objects, and contemporary pieces of art donated by The Society. The historical objects would be managed by the council, and the contemporary art by the Society. The museum was te be on the street called the Korte Beestenmarkt, in the centre of The Hague Within a few months, it had been visited by Queen Wilhelmina . It included paintings such as Jan van Goyen 's View of The Hague from

2808-591: The day before the opening with a completed Tableau Piège, which he had put together in his hotel room. Currently, the museum is thinking about organizing temporary thematic exhibitions alongside the permanent collection display. Kunstmuseum Den Haag The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands , founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst . Later, until 1998, it

2880-546: The divisions of the Second World War. Her staff organised exhibitions on the Dutch proto-impressionist Johan Barthold Jongkind that received positive reviews for illuminating French – Dutch connections in the development of 19th-century art, Danish sculpture and architecture, the Belgian artist James Ensor , Norwegian art,  and even the German poet and writer Goethe . Hefting also started moves to establish

2952-667: The fabrics are not really authentically African the way people think," says Shonibare. "They prove to have a crossbred cultural background quite of their own. And it's the fallacy of that signification that I like. It's the way I view culture – it's an artificial construct." Shonibare claims that the fabrics were first manufactured in Europe to sell in Indonesian markets and were then sold in Africa after being rejected in Indonesia. Today

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3024-476: The first women to assume such a position in the Netherlands. She was determined to put the collection to good use: in a speech of 1948 she adopted the words of the French poet Lafontaine " l'usage seulement fait la possession "  – "Possession is only justified by usage." Perhaps most striking under her leadership, the Gemeentemuseum extended its international ambitions, an important point of connection after

3096-499: The foundation with donations. On December 2, 1997 the mayor of Amsterdam opened the miniature museum at the pediatric oncology department at the AMC hospital in Amsterdam Zuid-oost. From 2013 to 2018, the Miniature Museum was housed in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag . A new building was specifically built to house the miniature collection. The exhibition in the new building was curated by the Daniels in close collaboration with

3168-463: The lack of action, the director Van Gelder threatened to resign. Things now started moving. A firmer set of requirements was created. There was clarity concerning the collection development of the museum. The Gemeentemuseum would be a museum for art from 1800 onwards; earlier art would to be exhibited at the Mauritshuis . The cost of the new building would be around 2.5m guilders, and it would cover

3240-597: The largest collections of Dutch Delftware in the world. Selected pieces of the collection are on display at the a permanent gallery which represent Dutch art in the ' Golden Age '. The museum also holds one of the largest collections of Persian ceramics and glasses in Europe. The museum has a collection of 19th- and 20th-century prints, posters and drawings, containing around 50,000 items. It comprises works by Dutch artists such as Co Westerik and Jan Toorop , as well as works by Rodolphe Bresdin , Ingres , Paul Klee , Toulouse-Lautrec , Odilon Redon and others. A selection

3312-598: The main exporters of "African" fabric from Europe are based in Manchester in the UK and Vlisco Véritable Hollandais from Helmond in the Netherlands. Despite being a European invention, the Dutch wax fabric is used by many Africans in England, such as Shonibare. He has these fabrics made up into European 18th-century dresses, covering sculptures of alien figures or stretched onto canvases and thickly painted over. Shonibare

3384-422: The miniature work. No matter how closely they searched, the Daniels couldn’t find the work in the envelope and feared they had lost Andre’s work with no way to contact him. A few weeks later a second letter arrived. Across the front of the envelope the words “Just kidding” had been printed in a large font. This time, the work was included in the envelope. Daniel Spoerri 's artwork in the Miniature Museum dates from

3456-468: The modern design of the building – the warming, the ventilation and the lighting on the facade were all innovations for museums of the time. On 29 May 1866, a group of artists and collectors in The Hague established The Society for the Development of a Museum of Modern Art (Dutch: Vereeniging tot het oprigten van een Museum van Moderne Kunst ). The artworks brought together by this group would form

3528-502: The museum – Berlage's concrete framework offered reliable protection. In the advent of any physical threat the works could quickly be moved there. When the Netherlands was attacked the next year (10 May 1940), the museum staff worked quickly to bring the artworks into safety. Paintings were taken out of their frames, and with the help of volunteers such as the Boy Scouts, brought to the museum depot. The German invasion happened rapidly;

3600-1441: The museum. Two-dimensional works in the collection generally measure between 10 x 10 cm and 9 x 12 cm, while sculptures are limited to 10 x 10 x 20 cm. Nevertheless, a few exceptions have been made. The museum has works by internationally recognized artists, including Arman , César , Daniel Spoerri , Jonathan Lasker , Edward Kienholz , Sam Francis , Christo, Dennis Oppenheim , Sol LeWitt , George Baselitz , Roy Lichtenstein , Robert Mangold , Jenny Holzer , Annie Leibovitz , Sandro Chia , A.R. Penck , Andres Serrano , Karel Appel , Carl Andre , Panamarenko , Robert Longo , Kenny Scharf , Günther Förg , Allen Jones , Bettina Rheims , Ed Rucha , Richard Artschwager , Tetsumi Kudo , Peter Halley , Marlene Dumas , Keith Haring , Anton Corbijn , Louise Bourgeois , Peter Beard , Imi Knoebel , Damien Hirst , Lawrence Weiner , David Levinthal , and many more. The collection’s recent acquisitions include works by Ali Banisadr , Anish Kapoor , Angel Otero , Arnaldo Pomodoro , Daido Moriyama , Donald Baechler , Enoc Perez, Erwin Olaf , Harland Miller , Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin , Larry Bell , Martin Parr , Pat Steir , Taryn Simon , Tauba Auerbach , Tom Sachs , Urs Fischer , Yinka Shonibare , and Zhang Huan . The first building to house

3672-549: The original core of the Kunstmuseum. Among the initiators were The Hague politician Hugo Ferdinand (otherwise known Baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt), the Director of the Mauritshuis, Jean Zacharie Mazel, the artists David Bles , Louwrens Hanedoes , Carel Vosmaer , the architect Henri Camp, the former minister Agnites Vrolik , and Hendrik Steengracht van Oosterland, a representative of King William III . Later directors of

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3744-534: The paintings of famous artists using headless mannequins with Batik or Ankara textiles instead of European fabrics. He uses these fabrics when depicting European art and fashion to portray a 'culture clash' and a theme of cultural interaction within postcolonialism. An example of some of these recreations would be Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Andrews Without Their Heads (1998) and Reverend on Ice (2005) (after The Rev Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch by Raeburn ). One artist he recreated multiple works of

3816-556: The purpose of the headless figurines implies the loss of humanity as Shonibare explains: "I wanted to represent these European leaders as mindless in their hunger for what the Belgian King Leopold II called 'a slice of this magnificent African cake. ' " Scramble for Africa cannot be read as a "simple satire", but rather it reveals "the relationship between the artist and the work". It is also an examination of how history tends to repeat itself. Shonibare states: "When I

3888-484: The sale of the catalogue have been donated to the Medical Cancer Research Foundation. Together with anonymous donations, the Miniature Museum has raised a large amount of money for the foundation. The museum is planning to publish a second volume of the catalogue in 2020. In 1997 the Miniature Museum was awarded the Guinness World Record for the smallest museum in the world. It has since been featured in

3960-459: The time. The advent of the Second World War had an immediate effect. At the outbreak of war in mid-1939, the director Hendrik van Gelder made immediate plans to keep the collections safe. Unlike the Rijksmuseum and Mauritshuis (which had shut immediately), the Gemeentemuseum would continue to show its artworks and allow public entry. Van Gelder had the advantage of a new storage area under

4032-422: Was Jean Honoré Fragonard . He recreated Fragonard's series The Progress of Love (1771-1773), which included his works The Meeting , The Pursuit , The Love Letter , and The Swing . A unique inclusion within these recreations, was the inclusion of branded fabric. The Swing (After Fragonard) (2001) has the woman on the swing wearing an imitation or 'knock-off' Chanel patterned fabric. The use of this fabric

4104-500: Was 17 years old, Shonibare returned to the UK to take his A-levels at Redrice School . At the age of 18, he contracted transverse myelitis , an inflammation of the spinal cord, which resulted in a long-term physical disability where one side of his body is paralysed. Shonibare studied Fine Art first at Byam Shaw School of Art (now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) and then at Goldsmiths, University of London , where he received his MFA degree, graduating as part of

4176-460: Was also a concert building, and space for other cultural activities. However, The Hague council found the plans too expensive and too ambitious. Nevertheless some of the ideas – such as the reflective pond, and the notion of a complex of buildings – would remain in the ultimate design. Berlage's more modest design of 1922 were also rejected, and the council cooled on the overall idea of a set of buildings with multiple cultural purposes. Frustrated at

4248-787: Was appointed a CBE in 2019. He was elected Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts in 2013. He joined Iniva 's Board of trustees in 2009. He has exhibited at the Venice Biennial and internationally at leading museums worldwide. In September 2008, his major mid-career survey commenced at the MCA Sydney and toured to the Brooklyn Museum , New York, in June 2009 and the National Museum of African Art of

4320-564: Was appointed in 1919. He worked with van Gelder to devise this new cultural complex for The Hague, based on a site on the Stadshouderlaan, a little to the north west of the city centre. A first project idea was exhibited at a renowned art studio in The Hague, the Pulchri Studio, and was popular with the general public. It formed a U-shape, with two wings – one wing a museum for modern art, and the other one for applied arts. There

4392-405: Was criticised. It lacked majesty. Others compared the building to a factory or a swimming pool, especially because of the two high towers at the back of the building complex. The inside of the building was immediately praised, however. The impressive entrance hall, with coloured tiles, columns and hall was particularly well received. This dual consideration was so summarised by one newspaper: "There

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4464-677: Was issued with a stormtrooper helmet, which he transformed into a work of art. Proceeds went to the Missing Tom Fund, set up by Ben Moore to find his brother Tom, who has been missing for more than 10 years. The work was also shown on the Regent's Park platform as part of Art Below Regents Park. The Goodman Gallery announced in 2018 that the Norval Foundation, South Africa's newest art museum based in Cape Town , has made

4536-446: Was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum , and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag . It has a collection of around 165,000 works, over many different forms of art. In particular, the Kunstmuseum is renowned for its large Mondrian collection, the largest in the world. Mondrian's last work, Victory Boogie-Woogie , is on display at the museum. The current museum building was constructed between 1931 and 1935, designed by

4608-582: Was making it I was really thinking about American imperialism and the need in the West for resources such as oil and how this pre-empts the annexation of different parts of the world." Shonibare's Trumpet Boy , a permanent acquisition displayed at The Foundling Museum , demonstrates the colourful fabric used in his works. The sculpture was created to fit the theme of "found", reflecting on the museum's heritage, through combining new and existing work with found objects kept for their significance. He also recreates

4680-709: Was meant to further explore the themes of post-colonialism, globalism, and cultural interaction that are present throughout much of his work, while also commenting on the consumerism and consumer culture of the modern world and how all of these themes intersect. Shonibare also takes carefully posed photographs and videos recreating famous British paintings or stories from literature but with himself taking centre stage as an alternative, black British dandy – for example, A Rake's Progress by Hogarth , which Shonibare translates into Diary of A Victorian Dandy (1998), or his Dorian Gray (2001), named after Oscar Wilde 's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray . Considerably larger than

4752-484: Was no longer safe to keep the collection in the underground depot. Within a hurried period of 14 days, the entire collection was transported to various bunkers throughout the Netherlands. Following that, the Germans used the empty museum for storage. The year after it was reported that Knuttel had taken honourable resignation from his position; in reality he was forced into a prisoner of war camp for refusing to work with

4824-523: Was on view in several of the museum's period rooms. Another site-specific installation, Party Time—Re-Imagine America: A Centennial Commission was simultaneously on view at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey , from 1 July 2009, to 3 January 2010, in the dining-room of the museum's 1885 Ballantine House. Shonibare is now disabled, physically incapable of making works himself, and relies upon

4896-441: Was purchased after the bankruptcy of Scheurleer & Zoonen in 1932. The museum has around 25 to 30 exhibitions per year. In 2021 and 2022 exhibitions have included Portuguese painter Paula Rego , Basque fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga and English potter and artist Grayson Perry . The 2021 exhibition Monet: The Garden Paintings was voted as the best museum exhibition in the Netherlands. These numbers are solely for

4968-414: Was short. Hefting remarried in 1950 and was obliged to resign. it was legally not permitted for married women to work in government services, a law that would not be repealed until 1957. Yinka Shonibare Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (born 9 August 1962), is a British artist living in the United Kingdom. His work explores cultural identity, colonialism and post-colonialism within

5040-412: Was the central role played by the number 11. Many of the architectural elements are determined by the number 11, or multiples thereof. Most of the 4 million yellow bricks used in the building have a dimension of 5.5 cm × 22 cm × 11 cm. The width of windows panes in 44 cm. The then director of the museum, Hans van Gelder, worked closely with Berlage on the design. One point of contention

5112-466: Was the light source in the galleries. After much experimentation and argument, Berlage settled on a novel design. Unlike most museums, which had artificial lighting in the ceiling, the museum would make use of natural daylight, with blinds in the skylights above regulating the intensity of the light. "Light, light, Berlage has captured the magic of light here", one journalist marvelled. Newspapers also reported "all kinds of ingenious installations" as part of

5184-569: Was the subject of a major mid-career survey in both Australia and the USA; starting in September 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney , and toured to the Brooklyn Museum , New York, in June 2009 and the Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC, in October 2009. For the 2009 Brooklyn Museum exhibition, he created a site-specific installation titled Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play which

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