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New platform brings Rembrandt and Vermeer to every living room in the world

April 14, 2020April 13, 2020 by Editorial Team

Rijksmuseum launches 10 ways to visit Rijksmuseum without leaving home.

700,000 high-resolution images of paintings and objects in the Rijksmuseum collection freely available for download.

Free art history lessons with the world’s leading experts.

Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, today launches Rijksmuseumfromhome, 10 initiatives that bring the museum’s collection with paintings and objects to living rooms across the world.

Rijksmuseum re-opens Gallery of Honour during quarantine.

Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honour, home of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, The Jewish Bride, Vermeer’s The Milkmaid, among history’s most celebrated paintings, are again accessible to the public around the globe via a new online platform Rijksmuseum Masterpieces Up Close. This platform is an interactive experience, allowing visitors from the comfort of their living room to navigate through the gallery at their own leisure.

Rijksmuseum Masterpieces Up Close aims to recreate the experience of casually browsing a museum with a multimedia guide, with amongst others the latest high-resolution 360º images. Visitors ‘walk’ through the gallery at their own pace, zoom in on every tiny detail of each work of art, and listen to stories about 18 masterpieces. The platform is accessible for everyone by providing short videos, audio and text description.

Curators from home

Rijksmuseum curators share short videos from home with stories about their favourite works of art. All the videos are posted to Rijksmuseum social media channels. In the first video Pieter Roelofs, the Rijksmuseum’s Head of Painting and Sculpture, talks about Jan Steen’s The Merry Family.

Rijksstudio: online collection

Launched in 2012, Rijksmuseum started a revolution in the museum world when it made available more than 700,000 high-resolution images of its collection completely free of charge. Rijksstudio continues to be a major source of inspiration (and distraction) for designers and art lovers around the world. Rijksstudio was made possible thanks to the participants of the BankGiro Lottery.

Rijks App

Through ‘Rijks’, the Rijksmuseum app, visitors can access multimedia tours, Rijksstudio and more from anywhere in the world. In the new, more advanced, version, which will be launched in a few weeks, visitors are able to create their own tour of their favourite artworks.The Rijksmuseum app is connected by KPN.

Operation Nightwatch

The Night Watch, Rembrandt’s largest and most famous painting, has been undergoing one of the most ambitious restoration projects ever. Keep up with all the latest news about Operation Nightwatch on a dedicated site populated with videos and articles in which experts explore different aspects of research they are conducting.

Experience The Night Watch

The Rijksmuseum and the Dutch national public broadcaster NTR have joined forces to develop an interactive website about The Night Watch. Never before has it been possible to get so close to this spectacular, world-famous painting.

RijksCreative

Teachers from Rijksmuseum’s Education Centre present YouTube tutorials on the techniques of the great masters, in the process creating new masterpieces of their own. Three seasons of films are already available, each one exploring a different art movement and technique.

RijksTube

RijksTube channel on YouTube hosts short videos that explore contemporary pop culture through the prism of the arts: i.e. speculating how The Night Watch might have been an unconscious inspiration for the poster of Avengers: Infinity War.

10 things…

‘10 things’ is a blog series where visitors are likely to discover something new about art and history through the Rijksmuseum collection. What are the 10 most essential things you need to know about The Night Watch? And what 10 things should you definitely know about Japanese art?

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The young challengers celebrating 10 years of Functional Design Art

December 26, 2016October 25, 2016 by Editorial Team

By Philippe Mihailovich.

Coinciding with the opening of the 2016 edition of the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) – the international art fair held annually at the Grand Palais in Paris, and this year including Petit Palais and other venues – two young challengers attracted the international art press to their massive new venue “Carpenters Workshop Gallery / Roissy” not far from Charles De Gaulle Airport

Just as FIAC Director Jennifer Flay says that her aim was to provide FIAC exhibitors with museum-like exhibition conditions for important works, she told Blouinartinfo (1) that current art market conditions are “like taking a step back,” and it is a “time to reassess.” She believes that the market is quite healthy, but the situation is particularly hard for younger galleries, who seem to be more fragile. “It’s always been difficult to be a young gallerist, and that is the part of the market that seems to be hit the most at the moment.” Yet a few miles away two young gallerists were hosting a 10 year celebration that they could truly be proud of, as were the art press who attended.

The 22nd October 2016 was the day that Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery opened its 8000 sqm space dedicated to artistic research and development, where leading artisans and artists are at work creating limited edition functional art with high tech equipment and real handcraft as one would expect to see in any high luxury workshop from watchmaking through to Hermès and Pagani Automobile. Here we witness the creativity, skills, hard work, and a search for perfection that goes beyond most luxury wearables.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery only recently opened a gallery in the Takashimaya Building in New York after having successfully conquered London and Paris. For the two young visionary founders, Julien Lombrail and Loic Le Gaillard, it must be such an overwhelming feeling to have built such a successful gallery business and having attracted the biggest names from Maartin Baas, Sebastian Brajkovic, Andrea Branzi, Humberto & Fernando Campana, Nacho Carbonell, Wendell Castle, Ingrid Donat, Vincent Dubourg, Staurt Haygarth, Frederik Molenschot, Marc Newson, Random International, Rick Owens, Pablo Reinoso, Robert Stadler, studio Drift and Studio Job.

Not only are Hollywood celebrities and art collectors on their client list but even leading Art and Design museums as well as top boutique hotels are now tracking them. How long will it take for them to open in Asia, one wonders. One thing seems clear, the world appreciates design more than ever before. Contemporary Art may have become far too intellectualized for many to appreciate. Design Art or Functional Sculpture, as some pieces may be called, clearly manage to please all who appreciate both art and design, both creativity and craftsmanship, have a sense of humour and a strong belief of where the future lies.

Traditionally, the creations of luxury brands were not quite considered as art due to the fact that the pieces were functional however top jewelers and watchmakers have long aimed and claimed to make art pieces. The fact that the luxury industry is an industry, has often denied these creators the right to be considered as artists. Art is supposed to be for emotion only, however the great Michelangelo church works do indeed function to tell a story. With design art offering another bridge between these worlds, where does it leave the art world? One thing is for sure, The Carpenters Workshop Gallery is well on it way to becoming the Gagosian of the Design Art World.

For more information on Gagosian, please click on this link :
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-art-of-larry-gagosians-empire-1461677075

1. http://www.blouinartinfo.com