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☆ Heading to Amsterdam’s Blockbuster ‘Vermeer’ Exhibit? Don’t Skip This Day Trip
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Mary Tompkins Lewis | Photographs Samira Kafala For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
TRAVELERS WORLDWIDE are converging on Amsterdam for the Rijksmuseum’s “Vermeer” retrospective, arguably 2023’s hottest art ticket. I was eagerly among them, but after touring the splendid exhibit (running through June 4), I felt compelled to dive deeper. And so I undertook a day-trip to the painter’s hometown, the small Dutch city of Delft, less than an hour away by train, to explore the place that figured so memorably in his art. On a frosty morning in early February, I walked from the train station past coffee houses bustling with locals and shops to the Oude Delft, the city’s oldest canal. Along the way, a waterside restaurant, Bij Harry, looked inviting, and I made a mental note to have drinks there if the day stretched late.
☆ ‘Vermeer’ Review: Small Focus, Wide Reach
  + stars: | 2023-02-25 | by ( Mary Tompkins Lewis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
An installation view of the show with Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’AmsterdamWhen the Frick Collection announced plans several years ago for a major renovation, the Rijksmuseum here saw a once-in-a-lifetime chance to borrow its three magnificent paintings by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), which normally would never leave their New York home. Museums around the world and two private collectors also agreed to lend, and a retrospective, the largest ever assembled of the painter’s surviving work, took shape. “Vermeer,” the first exhibition devoted to the artist in the Rijksmuseum’s history, consists of 28 paintings (with one, his magisterial “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” leaving town March 30) out of the roughly 36 known to still exist. Organized by the museum’s curators Gregor J.M. Weber and Pieter Roelofs and designed by the architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte , it is a staggeringly beautiful, brilliantly realized show unlikely to be repeated.
☆ ‘The Eveillard Gift’ Review: A Sketch of a Great Collection
  + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Mary Tompkins Lewis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
New YorkWhen its original building on East 70th Street eventually reopens after a renovation, the Frick Collection—now temporarily ensconced on Madison Avenue—will include a new gallery specifically designed to display the museum’s drawings. They will be shown on a rotating basis to avoid overexposure to light, humidity and other elements, and will feature a promised gift of 26 works on paper and sketches from the collection of Elizabeth “Betty” and Jean- Marie Eveillard that are currently on view at the Frick Madison. “The Eveillard Gift,” an exhibition of this munificent bequest, suggests the impressive caliber of the donors’ larger collection and the museum’s continued commitment to the study of European drawings.
☆ ‘Vermeer’s Secrets’ Review: A Master Under the Microscope
  + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Mary Tompkins Lewis | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
WashingtonThe disparate realms of art and science have often converged in attempts to explicate the rarefied and indescribably beautiful paintings of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). Revered by his fellow painters in Delft, the Dutch artist fell into obscurity after his death, in part because of the scarcity of his output. Vermeer’s rediscovery by 19th-century scholars, connoisseurs, and especially the French art critic Théophile Thoré-Bürger spurred a crucial reassessment of his art, his stature in Holland’s Golden Age likened to that of Rembrandt. While only about 35 works can now be ascribed with certainty to the artist, a smattering of others—including likely copies, outright counterfeits, and paintings inspired by his own—have been considered over the years as candidates for inclusion in his prestigious oeuvre. “Vermeer’s Secrets,” a small exhibition at the National Gallery of Art that is drawn exclusively from its own holdings, navigates this contested territory with the aid of new research and imaging technology, and the results are as riveting as they are convincing (the show is a prelude to the Vermeer retrospective to be held in 2023 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam).
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