Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Gallery's exhibition, previously shown to packed galleries in Berlin and Amsterdam, is meant to explain the committee's methods and make the case for their soundness. It consists of two sections. In the first are 51 paintings now agreed to be indubitably by the master -- the finest "pure" Rembrandt show in memory. The second consists of a dozen "Rembrandts" now assigned to artists who worked with him; each of these is shown with two or three other paintings known to be by that pupil. In all, it is a wonderfully illuminating show, and it makes an unanswerable case...
Last fall, Institute officials made a bold statement against a U.S. immigration policy that barred people infected with the HIV virus from entering the country, by moving the VIII International AIDS Conference from its planned location in Boston to Amsterdam...
Cambridge Society for Early Music--presents music for 17th-century Amsterdam and London. First Religious Society, Carlisle. Thursday, March 5, 8 p.m. Josiah Smith Tavern, Weston. Friday, March 6, 8 p.m. $15 general; $7 for students...
...contract and his own magnetism to translate a deep personal identification into an enduring Mahler revival. In 1985 Bernstein undertook to re-record the nine symphonies, plus the Adagio from the unfinished 10th, live for Deutsche Grammophon, using three virtuoso orchestras: the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Result: this definitive 13-disc boxed set. Bernstein finds the universal in Mahler's exquisite, often tortured, self-consciousness; the metaphysical beneath the moody, vivid surfaces. In struggling to understand fate, Mahler found despair, strength, ineffable loss and radiant affirmation. Yet it is ultimately in the music...
...concluded that Goldreyer had not matched the original oils. Instead, the lab reported, the restorer had used alkyd, a synthetic paint commonly used on window frames. Goldreyer has acknowledged that he covered the canvas with an alkyd "seal" to protect the work, but contends his restoration was faithful. The Amsterdam cultural committee plans to try to recoup at least the restoration costs...