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...Russian-language tour guide around Amsterdam. And Van Brunschot, the company executive, says he has grown tired of waiting for the city to change his neighborhood. Earlier this year he began looking for a new home, either in Amsterdam's western suburbs or in the seaside city of Haarlem. "I've told myself I'll be out by the end of this year," he says. He'll be one of hundreds leaving. But many of them have not the slightest idea where they...
...HAARLEM By Bond No. 9; recalls Thierry Mugler Angel Key notes: Coffee, patchouli, vanilla, cedar, lavender, bergamot Dubin: "A true genderless fragrance" that is "comforting, with a dangerous, tangy bite...
...museums that stand to lose some of their most prized works, it's all a tad bittersweet. The Frans Hal Museum in Haarlem has eight Golden Century paintings from the Katz collection on long-term loan from the national collection. They are works of "enormous importance," says Louis Pirenne, the museum's head of public affairs. "Paintings like these are important to the mid-scale museums in the Netherlands. We buy around these centerpieces in our collection." Although the loss would be huge, Pirenne says his museum respects the judgments of the Restitution Committee. "We've always realized...
...contemporaries from the Hague School, Josef Israëls, Matthijs Maris, Anton Mauve and their Barbizon-School cousins Charles-François Daubigny and Millet. This makes for a wonderful triple play here, cloud-filled skies sweeping over broad plains painted by three generations: Ruisdael's pastoral View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds, Georges Michel's barren and stormy Three Windmills and Van Gogh's powerhouse Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, a swath of chartreuse and emerald green beneath a bolt of cobalt and pale blue. Millet was second only to Rembrandt in Van Gogh's pantheon, and he copied the older...
There are childhood traumas--and then there is what happened to Ellen van Bemmel in Renate Dorrestein's stunning novel A Heart of Stone (Viking; 244 pages; $23.95), translated from the Dutch by Hester Velmans. In the early '70s, in a quiet suburb of Haarlem, Ellen's psychotic mother killed three of her five children, her husband and herself. Believing she was saving her loved ones from evil, Margreet van Bemmel fed them tranquilizers and put bags over their heads. Ellen and a young brother escaped by hiding in the cellar...