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Welcome to the United States of America Dutch Art Events blog by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Our website features Dutch visual arts, cultural, architecture and design projects that can be found throughout the United States. Please visit frequently for the latest Dutch events going on around the country.
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May 17th, 2012 by Robert Kloos
 Haiko Cornelissen Architecten, picNYC Table, photograph by Alan Tansey, courtesy the architects May 18-22, 2012
Haiko Cornelissen Architecten will present the picNYC table at WantedDesign 2012. With a grass table top, picNYC brings the rural picnic into the urban residence. Urban farming is a fast growing phenomenon where the typically rural practice of agriculture is brought into the city. The picNYC table goes one step further and brings the rural experience of picnicking not just in the city, but into the apartment. The folded lightweight aluminum table top and legs form a stiff framework for the grass, soil and stones (needed for drainage).
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May 17th, 2012 by Robert Kloos
 Rens Lipsius, Ideal Artist House, New York City, 2012, courtesy the artist Until May 31, 2012
(On view by appointment only)
Recently internationally recognized Dutch multi-media artist Rens Lipsius realized the Ideal Artist House concept at 77 Bleecker Street in NYC. One of six such projects developed by Lipsius, the
77 Bleecker Street apartment–installation was recently sold through the Raphael DeNiro group as a total concept. The other Ideal Artist Houses, all intended as possible homes, are conceptual spaces. As such they include Lipsius’ art works and aspects of art studio architecture.
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May 16th, 2012 by Robert Kloos
 Margriet Smulders, Velvet Veil, 2006, courtesy the artist May 17 – July 3, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday, May 17, 2012, 6-8:30pm
The Hagedorn Foundation Gallery is pleased to present Botanicals Mirabilis: Margriet Smulders & Bryan Whitney. This two-person exhibition features classic floral images in two distinct styles. Acclaimed Amsterdam photographer Margriet Smulders’ works recall the rich, dense burgundy, eggplant, umber and verdigris tones of the Dutch Golden Age painters in lush bouquets and cinematic formats. New Yorker Bryan Whitney’s alternative techniques with blooms – x-rays and stereoscopic images of specific genera such as cherry blossoms, tulips and roses – offer delicate organic forms of transcendent beauty. Both artists achieve a very grounded but ethereal, near spiritual ethos in their works, which celebrate nature and the garden.
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May 15th, 2012 by Robert Kloos
 Diederick Kraaijeveld, Allstars, 2011, courtesy the artist May 17 – June 9, 2012
Opening reception: Thursday, May 17, 2012, 5-8pm
Cheryl Hazan Contemporary Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Amsterdam artist Diederick Kraaijeveld. The artist will exhibit a selection of sculptural works; three Chuck Taylor All Stars, a Coke Can and a Money Roll. Diederick builds constructions of classic pop icons out of vintage reclaimed painted wood. He uses the old painted wooden planks scavenged from demolition and construction sites from the Netherlands and other countries to piece together his hand crafted photo –realistic wall reliefs. Oudhout or Old Wood is the name he gives to his studio, after his unusual material.
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May 14th, 2012 by Robert Kloos
 Haas & Hahn, Philly Painting, 2012 (ongoing), courtesy the artists Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 4-6 pm
Join the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Mayor Michael A. Nutter, and City Council President Darrell L. Clark, to kick off a community-focused project led by world-famous Dutch artists, Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn, also known as Haas & Hahn.
The spirit of transformation is at the heart of their work and Mural Arts’ practice and this collaboration is helping to revitalize and re-energize one of the city’s oldest commercial corridors–a section of Germantown Avenue in North Philadelphia. In the fall, Philly Painting partners with Goldman Properties for a project in Center City.
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May 10th, 2012 by Robert Kloos
 - Helen Verhoeven: Stage Disasters at Wallspace Gallery, courtesy the gallery and the artist
May 11 – June 23, 2012
Opening reception: Friday, May 11, 6 – 8pm
Wallspace Gallery is pleased to present Helen Verhoeven: Stage Disasters. For Stage Disasters, her fourth show with the gallery and her first in New York since 2008, Helen Verhoeven exhibits five new paintings dealing with estrangement, sex, farce and role-play. By combining traditional modes of genre painting – specifically that of the landscape, the nude and the group portrait – Verhoeven makes artificial, theatrical renditions of fictional, liminal moments that specifically address the roles of women. Characters from different time periods converge, but most seem oblivious to each other’s presence. They are fragmented and layered, trapped between audience and backdrop. The figures could be descendants of De Kooning’s women or Balthus’ girls; of old Spanish Royalty if they’d copulated with doyennes of reality television. They pose in make-believe congregations along lakes and rivers, stand before backdrops of beachfront postcards or a ravaged Dali-esque desert landscape. As in the dream-like situations of surrealist film, a strangeness floats amidst these eventless Mise-en-scènes.
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May 9th, 2012 by Robert Kloos
 Jennifer Tee, Gridding Sentences, performance at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2011, duration 33 minutes, image courtesy the artist May 11 – 13, 2012
The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Spring Open Studios is a three-day exhibition of international contemporary art. The 35 artists, art collectives and curators from 24 countries currently in residence at ISCP present work in their studios. Open Studios offers the public access to innovative contemporary art practices from across the globe, providing an exceptional opportunity to engage with the production, process and archives of practitioners working with a diverse range of media, approaches and concepts.
Alongside Open Studios, ISCP’s gallery is the site for a continuous program of time-based events including performances, screenings and lectures that address how the concept of time is both constructed/deconstructed and employed through artistic production. Unfolding over the weekend, time is used as a material for eight separate events by ISCP residents and Brooklyn-based artists and their collaborators, including performances by Jennifer Tee.
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May 8th, 2012 by Robert Kloos
 Concrete, Harborside Plaza, Jersey City, NJ, design 2012, scheduled for completion in 2015 © Concrete Announcement, Amsterdam, May 2012– Concrete designs four skyscrapers at Harborside Plaza in Jersey City USA for the Applied Development Company and Mack-Cali Realty Corporation. The towers of 220 meters and 66 stories high consist of 2500 apartments, commercial space and a parking garage. The towers are situated on the Hudson River front, directly opposite the world famous skyline of downtown Manhattan. The project completion is scheduled for end of 2015.
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May 7th, 2012 by Robert Kloos
May 2012
Now available from Aperture: The Dutch Photobook, A Thematic Selection from 1945 Onwards. By Frits Giertsberg and Rik Suermondt, Designed by Joost Grootens. The Dutch photobook is internationally recognized for its innovative and collaborative approach between photographers, printers, and designers. Dutch graphic designers have long worked at the forefront of their discipline, often crossing existing boundaries and exploring new territories-qualities that have become an integral part of contemporary Dutch photobook culture.
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May 6th, 2012 by Robert Kloos
 Experimental Jetset. Zang Tum Tum. If You Want It. 2003, courtesy the designers May 6 – August 27, 2012
MoMA presents Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, a group exhibition that brings together 12 contemporary artists and artists’ groups working in all mediums including painting, sculpture, film, video, audio, and design, all of whom concentrate on the material qualities of language—visual, aural, and beyond, including the work by Experimental Jetset. The work that these artists create belongs to a distinguished history of poem/objects, and concrete language experiments that dates to the beginnings of modernism, and includes both the Dada and Futurist moments as well as the recrudescence of Neo-Dada in the late 1950s, and international literary movements like concrete and sound poetry in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Like visual artists who experimented with abstract forms with the goal of arriving at a non-metaphoric artwork that was itself and nothing else, artists working with words in the late 1950s and 1960s used language as a medium; letters, words, and texts were dissected, displayed as objects, or arranged so that form and content were combined.
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