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Visual Arts: Improving on the Unfinished Past, Or Schwartz on the Radio

Although I was quadruply nervous—about my historical and art-historical knowledge, my Dutch, my speaking voice, and my presence of mind—I enjoyed the tapings for the radio and have no reason to think that I committed any terrible gaffes. By Gary Schwartz My late Sunday mornings over the past decades have been torn between quiet work […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Radio, Visual Arts Tagged: Dutch, Gary-Schwartz, Holland, Netherlands, Schwartzlist, visual-art

Visual Arts: Worlds within Worlds

Oh connoisseurship, what hath thou wrought? By Gary Schwartz Until June 27, a small exhibition of irresistible charm and interest is being held in the Mauritshuis in The Hague, after a run at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp: Willem van Haecht: room for art in 17th-century Antwerp. Van Haecht was one of the great masters of […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: 17th-century, Dutch, Gary-Schwartz, Painting, Schwartzlist, The Hague, Willem van Haecht

Visual Arts Feature: The Dutch Identity Crisis

By Gary Schwartz Is there or is there not such a thing as “the Dutchman?” My fellow immigrant Princess Maxima thinks there is not, but since she dared express that opinion in public last September, she has been subjected to an ongoing barrage of reprimands. Indeed, since the brief era of Pim Fortuyn, public discourse […]

By: Gary Schwartz Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Dutch, Gary-Schwartz, identity, Princess-Maxima, Schwartzlist, Visual Arts

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