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Op 13 januari 2012 verging het cruiseschip Costa Concordia. Dat gebeurde precies daar waar ik ieder jaar een dag of twee verbleef.

Just before the Second World War, the world famous Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam was hastily dismantled. Some two thousand paintings, thirty thousand objects and three million prints and drawings disappeared underground.

Terug THE ‘NEW’ RIJKS A Personal Tour of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Part Two Front Hall The recent restoration of the Rijks returned some of the attention to the building itself. So, it is also with renewed interest that one looks […]

Terug REMEMBERING TIANANMEN Twenty-five years have passed since that unforgettable day, the day the demonstrations on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square were crushed. Until then, the square had been known mostly for being incredibly large and unheavenly ugly. After it, ‘Tiananmen’ became […]