Dutch Art & Design Today
Episodes
Lorna Mills
31 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'I generally take a shortcut and say my work is appalling and formal. That’s the easiest way. Because it’s such a hard question to answer, and you...
Adrian Pocobelli
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'Oftentimes when you see digital art, it feels unrooted. It feels like it’s hard to place, especially if you’re coming out of the tradition. And w...
Lidewij de Koekkoek
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
‘I think it’s our duty as a museum to address social issues, whether they’re in the past, or whether they’re happening now, because we have a ...
Jill Bolte Taylor
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'When I think about Rembrandt, I think of Rembrandt as dramatic. There's a drama. An emotional something's going on; the dark colors; a th...
Jacquelyn N. Coutré
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Language is so important, and particularly right now; especially when differentiating the Dutch Republic from the Southern Netherlands in the sev...
Erica Obersi
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘We are a very vibrant country; Curaçao. But we are so much more than these cliches that pervade in mainstream thought about the Caribbean. There’...
Steven Nadler
30 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'Spinoza is a great portal to the Dutch Republic; because with Spinoza you have to look at Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century. And if you...
Sven Kroner
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'Back in 2006, or 2007, I painted a kind of a landscape, in a very liquid way; sometimes abstract and sometimes realistic. But I would always add ...
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'Habsburgs loved their animals. As we do today. They're no different than us. They went to great lengths, to get their horses, dogs, cheetahs,...
Jane Turner
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'What's left to do? To keep people interested in old art. To make that art interesting and relevant. Perhaps relevant isn’t the right word…...
Francien Krieg
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'I understand the anger from a lot of people around AI. I had the same. The first time I saw AI, it made me very angry—at the whole development....
Giancarlo Pazzanese
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'In digital fashion, craftsmanship has moved from knowing how to work with leather, or how to embroider physically. But I think the craftsmanship ...
Maaike Rikhof
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'What I'm predominately interested in, is telling stories of people that might have been overlooked. But you have to be very careful. Because ...
Felix Pensel
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'In the early-seventeenth century, group portraiture was about social relationships that were the topic of such paintings. And in the late-ninetee...
Sara Birkofer
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'I'm really interested in contemporary art because it can be anything. And I know that that's very off-putting for some people. When it co...
Mayken Jonkman
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘For the nineteenth century, Dutch artists had to try to emulate artists from the seventeenth century. It was the standard that they had to try and ...
Anne de Jong
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'...I was always more drawn to modern art. But I love all art. I'll go to any museum; whether they show ancient or modern art. But I specializ...
Christi Klinkert
31 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
‘…And this gave me; I think it gave me; not just the knowledge of that medium and the specific period of time. But also the conviction, that if yo...
Marleen Ram
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
'The Teylers is a natural history museum, and up until the nineteenth century collected all kinds of beautiful books on birds. And one of those bo...
Marrigje Rikken
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
'Lots of artists from the Southern Netherlands migrated to Haarlem, and Haarlem really became a breeding ground for new artistic genres. So I woul...
Scott Baker
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
'In the case of, like, you know, the Rembrandts or a Clara Peeters—where these figures or still lifes are just emerging from darkness. And, real...
Robert Thiemann
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
'Vogue has become a really strong brand because of its consistency. Because of its consistency... editorially, but also in regards to its graphics...
Coming Soon: Dutch Art & Design Today
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Art and design, from the Netherlands. 'Dutch Art & Design Today' is a new show hosted by John Bezold, which explores these two worlds and ...