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

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the March edition of the Dutch Cultural Events List.

There's still time to catch the last few weeks of some of the great Rembrandt exhibitions on view in Southern California. And if you're in the Bay Area, you will have the opportunity to hear from a few NL visitors to San Francisco, including human rights activist Boris Dittrich, writer Paulien Cornelisse, and landscape designer Andriaan Greuze.

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Cheers!

Department of Cultural Affairs
Consulate General of the Netherlands
San Francisco

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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: Alon Levin
AMBACH & RICE, Seattle, WA
Through 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.

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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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...?

Reading by Paulien Cornelisse
Presidio Golf Club, San Francisco, CA
March 11, 2010
Additional info: Presidio Golf Club, Paulien Cornelisse
Dutch writer Paulien Cornelisse will read from her best-selling book "Taal is echt mijn ding." The reading will be in Dutch. This event is organized by the NAF NorCal. For more information, please visit www.thenafnorcal.org.

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.

Lecture: Adriaan Greuze of West 8
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
April 5, 2010
Additional info: CCA, West 8
Adriaan Greuze, founder of the Rotterdam-based urban design and landscape firm West 8, will give a talk as part of the CCA's Architecture Lecture Series. Since its founding in 1987, the firm has built a reputation for developing innovative solutions to urban planning problems using lighting, metal structures, and color.

Tour: The Amstel Quartet
L'Ermitage Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, April 8, 2010
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, April 11, 2010
Antelope Valley Community Concerts, Lancaster, CA, April 16, 2010
Fullerton Methodist Church, Fullerton, CA, April 18, 2010
Lakewood Cultural Center, Lakewood, CO, May 5, 2010
Additional info: Amstel Quartet
The mesmerizing Amstel Quartet are back on the West Coast for a few concerts. This exciting group continues to explore the musical possibilities for the saxophone quintet, presenting concerts that are dynamic and filled with emotion.

Concert: ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
April 13, 2010
Additional info: LA Phil, Asko Schöenberg
Holland's premiere new music performance group, the ASKO|Schönberg Ensemble, will perform Louis Andriessen's opera based on Dante's La Commedia as part of the Green Umbrella series at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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