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Stuart Forster Viewing art in the Netherlands Art has long been a significant driver of tourism in the Netherlands. In response to the inevitable dip in footfall caused by the pandemic, virtual exhibitions and online events helped the country’s art museums maintain their public presence through 2020. Aficionados can look forward to innovative exhibitions this year too. Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands’ national museum, and near neighbour the Van Gogh Museum both drew over two million visitors in 2019. The latter’s website introduces the story of the post-impressionist and his works, enabling visitors to book time slots to visit the institution. From October 8, the exhibition The Potato Eaters will explore Van Gogh’s mindset as he created his first masterpiece. Painted in the village of Nuenen in 1885, the canvas shows five people gathered around a dinner table in a room subtly illuminated by a gas lamp. ....
An anonymous painter s Enslaved Men Digging Trenches (c1850), part of Slavery at the Rijksmuseum Credit: Rijksmuseum Hanging from the ceiling at the Rijksmuseum, like a beautiful chandelier, are hundreds of sparkling blue glass beads. They’re thought to have been used as currency by people enslaved by the Dutch on the Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius. Local legend has it that the beads were thrown into the sea when, after a series of mass escapes, the slaves won their freedom. Today, when those same beads re-emerge from the waves, some see them as precious trophies. This deep-blue painted room is part of Slavery, an extraordinary new exhibition launched this week at the Rijksmuseum, which delves for the first time into this aspect of Dutch history. Through artefacts, church records, letters, paintings, maps, oral history and songs, it tells the stories of 10 people whose lives were involved in slavery – as slave holders, enslaved people and freedom fighters. ....