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Museum Displays 200-Year-Old Condom Printed With Erotic Image
The 19th-century prophylactic, depicting an exposed nun and three aroused clergymen, anchors an exhibit about sex work and health at the Rijksmuseum.
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Art
Painter Immortalizes the Crowds at Rijksmusem’s Sold-Out Vermeer Show
Joe Fig’s Vermeer Contemplations series captures museum attendees closely engaging with the Dutch master’s work.
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Scientists Crack the Code of Rembrandt’s Golden Luster
New research into the pigments used in "The Night Watch" (1642) illuminates how the Dutch artist achieved his signature glistening details.
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Rediscovered Rembrandt Portraits May Be the Artist’s Smallest Paintings
The tiny pair of oval paintings of an older couple from Rembrandt's family circle will be displayed for the first time in nearly 200 years.
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Can European Museums Lure Visitors Once Again?
The Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer exhibition made headlines, but across Europe, many institutions seem to be quietly inching back to their pre-pandemic peaks.
Film
Behind the Scenes of Rijksmuseum’s Blockbuster Vermeer Show
The new documentary Close to Vermeer chronicles the making of the exhibition that brought over half a million visitors to the Amsterdam museum.
Art
Can We Ever Get Closer to Vermeer?
Even when his style is at its most self-effacing, smoothly drawing us into the moment, we remain, inevitably, outside.
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Extinction Rebellion Storms Rijksmuseum for Rembrandt Action
Changing tactics, the climate activists avoided gluing themselves to the masterpiece or smearing it with food products.
Art
Basking in Vermeer’s Light at Rijksmuseum
In Vermeer’s paintings, the world is much larger than we imagined and yet somehow deep, meaningful, and magical.
News
It Was No Pearl Earring, Friends
The pearl earring in Johannes Vermeer’s famous masterpiece was likely a fake, researchers say.
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Rijksmuseum’s Slavery Exhibition Is Coming to New York
The extensive exhibition confronts the Netherlands’s often-forgotten colonialist legacy.
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Rare Lead Compound Found in Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch”
Researchers are investigating whether the presence of lead formate originated from past attempts to conserve the painting.