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Events list for Dutch cultural events in the 13 westernmost states. Follow the links to individual websites for
more details on the listed events. Events/dates/locations may be subject to change. It is recommended that you
consult the venue/website before attending an event.
Dear Friends,
Summer is coming to an end, which means things will soon be heating up. Not only in San Francisco, where the end of summer actually means warmer weather, but throughout the Western US as Fall programs are unveiled at our favorite cultural institutions.
You will find a few Dutch artists in the mix, including a solo exhibition by Mark Manders at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (later traveling to the Aspen Art Museum) and an exhibition of work by pioneering Dutch video artist Bas Jan Ader at the Pitzer Art Galleries in Pomona. If you're headed to the movies, you'll have a chance to see Dutch photographer / filmmaker Anton Corbijn's work in the new movie starring George Clooney, The American, opening September 1st.
Later in the season, you'll have a chance to enjoy works by Louis Andriessen, performed by the Bang on a Can Allstars at Stanford Lively Arts, and Wunderbaum theater at REDCAT.
If you're in San Francisco and feeling adventurous, you can join a bike ride across the Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday, September 4th. Click here for more details.
Here's to the last days of summer!
Department of Cultural Affairs
Consulate General of the Netherlands
San Francisco
P.S. For more information on Dutch culture in the US, check out Dutch Performing Arts Events and Dutch Cultural Events.
CONTINUING EVENTS | COMING EVENTS
Exhibition: Marijn van der Poll in TechnoCRAFT
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Through October 10, 2010
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents its first design exhibition, organized by San Francisco-based design icon, Yves Behar. TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers, and Design in the Age of Individuality explores the boundaries between the role of the designer and the consumer with works that invite the viewer to participate in the act of creation. The exhibition includes the Do-Hit Chairs, by Marijn van der Poll, and House of Furniture, by Studio Makkink & Bey.
Exhibition: Jacco Olivier in SITE Sante Fe
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Through January 2, 2011
SITE Santa Fe's Eighth International Biennial, Dissolve, presents hybrid works of art by artists blending traditional art forms with new technology. The exhibition includes a video installation by Dutch artist Jacco Olivier.
Exhibition: Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands
Through February 6, 2011
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
During the Middle Ages, the area occupied today by Belgium and the Netherlands flourished economically and artistically. By the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the towns of Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and Utrecht participated in one of the greatest flowerings of book illumination in Europe. This exhibition surveys the Getty Museum's holdings of medieval manuscripts from this region, including masterworks made for such influential patrons as the dukes of Burgundy - Philip the Good and Charles the Bold - and the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. After eleven weeks the books' pages will be turned to reveal further illuminated riches.
COMING EVENTS | CONTINUING EVENTS
Philo Bregstein
UC Berkeley, Dutch Studies, Berkeley, CA
November 7-9, 2010
Dutch journalist and filmmaker Philo Bregstein will be guest at Berkeley's Dutch Studies in November. He will present the following programs:
 Jacques Presser Photo J. Stegeman/Spaarnestad
Film on the life and work of Jacques Presser with an Introduction by P. Bregstein
Sunday Nov. 7, 3-5pm
Room 2040 Valley Life Sciences Building
Lecture on the Holocaust in the Netherlands
Monday Nov. 8 5-6pm
Institute of European Studies
Lecture on Dutch historian Jacques Presser and the Holocaust debate in the Netherlands
Tuesday Nov. 9, 3.30-5pm
179 Dwinelle
Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences / Documented Assignments
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
September 24, 2010 = January 3, 2011
Co-organized by the Hammer Museum and the Aspen Art Museum, Mark Manders: Parrallel Occurances/Documented Assignments is the first North American tour of this acclaimed Dutch sculptor's work. Through his sculptural practice, the artist seeks to bypass language, translating his thoughts and obsessions directly into three-dimensional objects—existing and self-made—and tableaux that incorporate figures, animals, household furniture, archeological fragments, everyday objects, and architectural components. Transformed by their proximity to one another, these mundane sculptural elements collectively evoke a mysterious world of daydreams and fairy tales. For this exhibition, the artist will create a completely new body of work, encompassing sculpture and works on paper.
Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears
 Bas van Ader
September 30 - December 10, 2010
Suspended Between Laughter and Tears is an exhibition of video, photography, installations and archived materials from the estate of the late Dutch-born and California-based conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who is assumed to have perished at sea in 1975. The exhibition's title refers to the artist's exploration of the tenuous point between comedy and tragedy in his work. It is the first large-scale survey focusing on the breadth of his artistic practice mounted in the United States in over 10 years and will include documentation of works that have previously only been seen in catalog reproductions. A publication will accompany the exhibition and will include interviews with Ader's widow, Mary Sue Anderson.
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