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Art for commuters' sake

MartinWisse — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:29:47 -0800

in 1977 Amsterdam got its first Underground/metro line. The trains that first ran on that line, the "zilvermeeuwen or seagulls" are still in service some thirtyodd years later and have gotten a midlife update a few years ago. Part of that update included a new anti-graffitti skin, but also the transformation of some fortyfour carriages into art shows, featuring artworks and photographs by fortyfour Dutch artists.

Rijksmuseum remix

Horace Rumpole — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:27:13 -0800

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, home to Rembrandt's The Night Watch and Vermeer's The Milkmaid, among many other masterpieces, today unveiled the Rijksstudio, 125,000 digitized images of its collections, available in a zoomable interface online or as high-resolution public-domain downloads (account creation required for the latter).

Animal prints

tellurian — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 19:54:31 -0800

Clara the rhinoceros. Hansken the elephant. Monster from the deep. Prints from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam [previously].

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the fire you left me — Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:05:04 -0800

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