William Blake’s Illuminated Songs: Something between a Thing and a Thought

William Blake (1757–1827) has truly been a remarkable phenomenon in the history of Western art and literature. Equally gifted as a poet, painter and a printer, in all, he produced some 1400 designs or…

Reinventing the Book | Case Study: Irma Boom

If electronic media is a practical tool for conveying information, books are information sculpture. From now on, books will be judged by how well they awake this materiality, because the decision to create a book at all would be based on a definite…

Jan van Eyck’s Illumination

New Interpretation of van Eyck’s Masterpiece

Munch: Van Gogh Exhibition, Amsterdam

Earlier this week I visited the newly opened Munch: Van Gogh exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. As many of my friends and family — who absolutely adore Van Gogh and curious about Munch — couldn’t enjoy the exhibition, I decided to bring the exhibition…

Hieronymus Bosch - Visions of Genius

It’s 8:40 on a Saturday morning in Den Bosch. The line is getting longer and we all shift from…

ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN IN THE MAURITSHUIS: A CURATORIAL MASTERCLASS