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De Pont Museum in Tilburg, Netherlands, will present 'Sigmar Polke: The Knowledge of Colours,' an exhibition exploring the artist's radical color experiments from the 1980s onward.
Ann Demeester, director of the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, Netherlands, has been appointed the new director of Kunsthaus Zürich, effective January 1, 2023. She succeeds Christoph Becker, who led the museum for over two decades.
On August 25, 2026, the Van Gogh Museum announced a trio of exhibitions for the 2026-2027 season. The largest European retrospective of James McNeill Whistler in thirty years, "Whistler.
Otobong Nkanga (born 1974, Kano, Nigeria) will receive the Sikkens Prize 2026 on October 26, 2026, at a ceremony in Laren, Netherlands. The Sikkens Prize is awarded annually by the Sikkens Foundation to an artist or collective pioneering in the field of color.
The Van Eeghen family has donated an extremely rare early 17th-century drawing book to the Rijksmuseum, the museum announced on August 18, 2026.
On August 13, 2026, the Van Gogh Museum published the first extensive study of Vincent van Gogh's signatures, revealing that he signed only 133 of his 840 known paintings—approximately 15 percent.
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