You are here: Homepage Tag Western Europe Articles The exhibition “Unravel” was first presented at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. From fall 2024 it is on view at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Photo: Jemima Yong / Barbican Art Gallery Art l International A show of powerful textile art in Amsterdam For a long time, textile art was belittled as a women’s craft. A new exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam shows the subversive potential of this art form By Helen Jennings 10/27/2024 Exhibition hall in the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam Photo: Max Hart Nibbrig Remembrance | Netherlands A house of loss For a very long time, the Netherlands had no national memorial to the victims of the Shoah. For the recently opened National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, the team led by director Emile Schrijver developed a new approach to commemorating the genocide By Senay Boztas 09/09/2024 “Fierté”: French photographer Marvin Bonheur began his career in Départment 93 on the outskirts of Paris, home to a largely marginalised part of French society Photo: Marvin Bonheur Society | France “People we wouldn’t notice” French photographer Marvin Bonheur grew up in the banlieue of Paris. Today, he works internationally as a documentary photographer and in advertising. In both fields, he is aiming to portray those who are most often overlooked Interview with Marvin Bonheur 04/03/2024 French rap duo Triplego consists of rapper Sanguee and music producer MoMo Spazz Photo: TWAREG Hip Hop | France Between the Maghreb and the Banlieue The beat booms and the lyrics are radically intimate. The rap music of the French-African duo Triplego is created in the space between the Maghreb and the banlieue By Anissa Rami 12/25/2023 Mouss Ould Kaci was born in France and is a father and activist. Photo: Alexia Fiasco Living together | France Love is thicker than blood A Paris flat, three daughters and at least as many chosen relatives: The family of 63-year-old widower Mouss Ould Kaci redefines family ties. A visit to France By Nadia Kara 10/16/2023 Illustration: Hanneke Rozemuller Family life | Great Britain A quiet goodbye Since he can remember, there has been a deep rift between Daljit Nagra and his parents. He is ashamed of their narrow-mindedness; they despise his transformation into a “white man”. Memories of a difficult childhood By Daljit Nagra 10/16/2023 Scene of a hike in the Spanish comarca Sierra de Cazorla Photo: Antoine Bruy Dropouts Beyond civilisation In search of people who have had enough of big city life, the French photographer Antoine Bruy has traveled through Europe and North America. The result is the visually stunning photo series “Scrublands,” in which he documents people who opt out of society, depicting their everyday lives By Antoine Bruy 01/09/2023 Savoir-vivre: Boating on a canal in the French département of Deux-Sèvres Photo: Serge de Sazo / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images Fiction | France In the French countryside In his new novel, Mathias Énard observes French rural life in the 21st century as though it were a strange, foreign culture By Birthe Mühlhoff 07/01/2021 Frans de Waal has been researching primate social behavior and emotions for many years Photo: Getty Images Humans and animals “Humans think that animals are slaves to their emotions” Behavioural scientist Frans de Waal talks about emotional animals and how we humans have become alienated from nature. A conversation Interview with Frans de Waal 04/01/2021
The exhibition “Unravel” was first presented at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. From fall 2024 it is on view at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Photo: Jemima Yong / Barbican Art Gallery Art l International A show of powerful textile art in Amsterdam For a long time, textile art was belittled as a women’s craft. A new exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam shows the subversive potential of this art form By Helen Jennings 10/27/2024
Exhibition hall in the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam Photo: Max Hart Nibbrig Remembrance | Netherlands A house of loss For a very long time, the Netherlands had no national memorial to the victims of the Shoah. For the recently opened National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, the team led by director Emile Schrijver developed a new approach to commemorating the genocide By Senay Boztas 09/09/2024
“Fierté”: French photographer Marvin Bonheur began his career in Départment 93 on the outskirts of Paris, home to a largely marginalised part of French society Photo: Marvin Bonheur Society | France “People we wouldn’t notice” French photographer Marvin Bonheur grew up in the banlieue of Paris. Today, he works internationally as a documentary photographer and in advertising. In both fields, he is aiming to portray those who are most often overlooked Interview with Marvin Bonheur 04/03/2024
French rap duo Triplego consists of rapper Sanguee and music producer MoMo Spazz Photo: TWAREG Hip Hop | France Between the Maghreb and the Banlieue The beat booms and the lyrics are radically intimate. The rap music of the French-African duo Triplego is created in the space between the Maghreb and the banlieue By Anissa Rami 12/25/2023
Mouss Ould Kaci was born in France and is a father and activist. Photo: Alexia Fiasco Living together | France Love is thicker than blood A Paris flat, three daughters and at least as many chosen relatives: The family of 63-year-old widower Mouss Ould Kaci redefines family ties. A visit to France By Nadia Kara 10/16/2023
Illustration: Hanneke Rozemuller Family life | Great Britain A quiet goodbye Since he can remember, there has been a deep rift between Daljit Nagra and his parents. He is ashamed of their narrow-mindedness; they despise his transformation into a “white man”. Memories of a difficult childhood By Daljit Nagra 10/16/2023
Scene of a hike in the Spanish comarca Sierra de Cazorla Photo: Antoine Bruy Dropouts Beyond civilisation In search of people who have had enough of big city life, the French photographer Antoine Bruy has traveled through Europe and North America. The result is the visually stunning photo series “Scrublands,” in which he documents people who opt out of society, depicting their everyday lives By Antoine Bruy 01/09/2023
Savoir-vivre: Boating on a canal in the French département of Deux-Sèvres Photo: Serge de Sazo / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images Fiction | France In the French countryside In his new novel, Mathias Énard observes French rural life in the 21st century as though it were a strange, foreign culture By Birthe Mühlhoff 07/01/2021
Frans de Waal has been researching primate social behavior and emotions for many years Photo: Getty Images Humans and animals “Humans think that animals are slaves to their emotions” Behavioural scientist Frans de Waal talks about emotional animals and how we humans have become alienated from nature. A conversation Interview with Frans de Waal 04/01/2021