Dutch Cultural Events List
February 2010 Edition
Provided by the Press & Cultural Affairs Department
Consulate General of the Netherlands, San Francisco

Dear Friends,

There is still time to catch many of the Rembrandt exhibitions on view throughout Southern California. If you read the LA Times article on the Getty's exhibition, it may provide even more incentive to check it out. And for more contemporary work, visit Patrick Painter Gallery in Santa Monica to view the exhibition of work by Bas Jan Ader (and read the LA Times review here).

The Bay Area hosts several activities as well, from an exhibition of jewelry organized by renowned Dutch designer Gijs Bakker to a concert by Dutch trumpet sensation Eric Vloiemans. Next month, we will have a visit by former parliamentarian and human rights activist, Boris Dittrich.

See below for details on these programs and more. Enjoy!

Department of Cultural Affairs
Consulate General of the Netherlands
San Francisco

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Exhibition: Bas Jan Ader
Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Through February 13, 2010
Additional info: Patrick Painter, Bas Jan Ader.
Patrick Painter Gallery presents work by Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader. Included in the exhibition is the first installment of the trilogy "In Search of the Miraculous," and a series of work referencing the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian.

Speeltheater Holland presents Perô (or The Mysteries of the Night)
Seattle Children's Theatre, Seattle, WA
Through February 15, 2010
Additional info: Seattle Children's Theatre, Speeltheater.
Speeltheater Holland presents Perô (or The Mysteries of the Night), Written and Composed by Guus Ponsioen, together with the Seattle Children's Theatre. The play, which is based on the book Pierrot ou les secrets de la nuit by Michel Tournier, is directed by Onny Huisink.

Exhibition: Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: Telling the Difference
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Through February 28, 2010
Additional info: Interactive Website: Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils
The J. Paul Getty Museum has organized an exhibition based on 30 years of scholarly research on the working practice of Rembrandt and his teaching process. The exhibition explores the differences between Rembrandt's drawings and those of his most important pupils, whose artistic styles have been revealed and clarified by decades of research.

Drawing List: The Dutch Visual Tradition
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Through February 28, 2010
Additional info: The Getty Center
During the 1600s citizens of the Dutch Republic enjoyed increasing political freedom and economic prosperity, which ushered in a tremendous boom in art production and a flourishing art market. This exhibition of drawings features some of the most beloved genres depicted by Dutch artists during this highly active period. These subjects include the depiction of a tiny native caterpillar, the panoramic landscape, the weathered farmhouse, and a smiling shepherd - a celebration of Dutch life in all of its diversity.

Exhibition: From Rembrandt's Studio: The Prints of Ferdinand Bol
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Through March 7, 2010
Additional info: SDMA
From Rembrandt's Studio: The Prints of Ferdinand Bol focuses on printmaking in Rembrandt's Holland and documents the efforts of the Dutch painter and printmaker Ferdinand Bol to arrive at his own style while working with Rembrandt, the greatest artist of his time. The exhibition is part of a joint effort with the J. Paul Getty Museum, among other museums in Southern California, to examine Rembrandt's influence and work.

Exhibition: Designers on Jewelry: Twelve Years of Production by Chi ha paura...?
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, San Francisco, CA
Through March 16, 2010
Additional info: SFMC+D.
Dutch jewelry and product designer, Gijs Bakker, has collaborated with curator Yvonne Joris to present a collection of over 12 years of production by the collective Chi ha paura...? Over 80 works by artists from across the globe, all responding to the challenge of redefining jewelry as a craft of ideas as opposed to materials, are included in this exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design.

Exhibition: The Familiar Face: Portrait Prints by Rembrandt
Through March 22, 2010
Additional info: The Norton Simon Museum.
In conjunction with the forthcoming Rembrandt exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum and "Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres" at the Norton Simon Museum, the Norton Simon Museum presents a group of etched portraits from the 17th century by Rembrandt that depict personalities of his time, including Jan Uytenbogaert, 'the goldweigher,' 1639, Clement de Jonghe, printseller, 1651, and Jan Lutma, goldsmith, 1656 as well as several self-portraits.

Exhibition: The Golden Age in the Golden State: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from the Huntington and Crocker Collections
Through March 29, 2010
Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Additional info: www.huntington.org
The Huntington presents an intimate installation of 15 important works on paper displaying biblical, mythological, and genre subjects by such 17th Century masters as Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Peter Paul Rubens. Organized together with the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, this display is a fitting collaboration between institutions founded by Henry E. Huntington and Edwin B. Crocker &emdash; both men who helped bring the railroad to the West.

Exhibition: Rembrandt Prints
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Through April 4, 2010
Additional info: Hammer Museum
Rembrandt van Rijn was a prolific printmaker and created about 300 etchings over the course of his long career. The exhibition includes a variety of etchings with subjects ranging from religious narratives to figure studies and landscape. The exhibition is drawn from the extensive collection of the Hammer's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts and other institutions, including LACMA and the Norton Simon Museum.

Exhibition: Rembrandt's Recession: Passion and Prints in the Dutch Golden Age
Timken Musuem, San Diego, CA
Through May 2, 2010
Additional info: Timken Museum
The exhibition features fifteen exceptional impressions of Rembrandt's landmark prints illustrating Gospel narratives from the 1650s. Rembrandt's Recession examines this New Testament subject matter in light of Rembrandt's personal life, his 1656 bankruptcy and other factors of the times.

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Rembrandt Symposium
University of California, San Diego, CA
February 6, 2010
Additional info: Timken Museum
The Timken Museum presents a one-day symposium on Rembradt at the University of San Diego. Speakers include Dr. Stephanie S. Dickey, the Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Dr. Martin Royalton-Kisch, Senior Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings, The British Museum, London and Dr. Walter Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Exhibition: Alon Levin
AMBACH & RICE, Seattle, WA
February 13 - March 21, 2010
Additional info: AMBACH + RICE, Alon Levin.
An exhibition of new work by Dutch artist Alon Levin, titled Art for the Masses, will be presented by the AMBACH & RICE gallery in Seattle, WA.

Concert: Eric Vloiemans
Yoshi's, Oakland, CA, February 22, 2010
Athenuem, La Jolla, CA, February 25, 2010
Additional info: Yoshi's, La Jolla Athenaeum, Eric Vloeimans.
Holland's award-winning trumpet sensation Eric Vloeimans brings his joyous and compelling music to the US for the first time in a tour with his band featuring Vloeimans with guitarist Anton Goudsmit and pianist Harmen Fraanje.

Van Tilburg Lecture: "Reading Trees: Stories of Wood," by Esther Jansma
UCLA College of Letters and Sciences, Los Angeles, CA
February 25, 2010
Additional info: UCLA Dutch Studies.
The UCLA College of Letters and Science, together with the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands Institute for Social Research, invites you to attend the annual Johannes Van Tilburg Lecture in Dutch Studies, presented by Esther Jansma, Chair in Dendrochronology at Utrecht University. Jansma is a Dutch archaeologist specialized in the field of dendrochronology, the study of the annual growth variations in trees.

Art History Class: The Face of a Nation: Rembrandt and His Times
The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
February 27, 2010
Additional info: Face of a Nation
Rembrandt's remarkable innovations in the portrayal of himself and his contemporaries were part of the monumental changes taking place in 17th-century Holland, which witnessed the development of capitalism, a republican form of self-government, the so-called Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation. This lecture examines Rembrandt's contribution to the development of portraiture in relation to the traditions he inherited, market pressures and evolving understandings of the individual within these new political, cultural and social structures.

Panel Discussion: Jewelry Designers / Jewelry Makers: Who's Making It?
San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design, San Francisco, CA
March 11, 2010
Additional info: SFMC+D
Discussion, moderated by Marilyn da Silva, including Dutch designer Maaike Evers and her partner Mike Simonian in conjunction with the exhibition Designers on Jewelry: Twelve Years of Production by Chi ha paura...?

Lectures by Boris Dittrich
March 14 and 16, 2010
Additional info: Berkeley IES, NAUL, Boris Dittrich.
Boris Dittrich, former member of the Dutch Parliament and high-profile human rights activist, will be in town and presenting two lectures. On March 14th, the Netherlands America University League (NAUL) presents a lecture on the subject of "Being gay/lesbian in the Netherlands," giving a broad overview of developments in LGBT rights in the last 50 years, arguments used against same sex marriage are repeated in the USA and other countries, and Dutch Foreign Policy on LGBT rights and its influence on American foreign Policy. On March 16th, he will speak at Berkeley's Institute of European Studies on "Islam and homosexuality in Western Europe," providing background on Muslim communities in the Netherlands and issues related to integration, the role of religion in accepting homosexuality, the debate on headscarves/burka's in Western Europe, and building Mosques in Switzerland.

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