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View the Mauritshuis at Home. Another way to experience art – listen to paintings at home (Den Haag, Netherlands)
The Mauritshuis had a goal in mind: to attract a younger audience to the museum and bring them in contact with Dutch heritage. To make this possible they created the project ‘View the Mauritshuis with your ears’: an initiative that asks artists to draw inspiration from an artwork from the collection of the museum and to make a song about it. The format was created and used until the planned concert at the end wasn’t an option anymore due to the lockdown in reaction to the spreading coronavirus. The changing of the format to fit these times made the project even better and it became a huge hit, exceeding the…
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From occupied to contaminated – a centenary view on a world in crisis (Antwerpen, Belgium)
In reaction to the first measures against the spread of corona in Belgium, the Flemish-Dutch house of culture and debate deBuren set up an online platform where reactions of artists to the bundle ‘Bezette Stad’ by Paul van Ostaijen and the situation around de corona crisis were posted. The digital city was aptly named ‘De Besmette Stad’ and grew out to be a project that is still being developed, making it difficult, but exciting, to predict the impact it will have on its employees, artists, audiences and the future. Background The Flemish-Dutch house of culture and debate deBuren is an organisation established in 2004 by the Dutch and Flemish government…
