Bye Cameron Highlands, hi Penang! George Town, to be more specific! We got up at 7.15 AM, checked out, had breakfast (bananananana pancake!), took the bus at 9 AM and arrived 5 hours later in Malaysia’s street art capital: George…
HOTSPOTTED Morgan & Mees in Amsterdam It all comes together at Morgan & Mees. The neoclassical building, the robust yet classic interior design, the super friendly staff and the delicious menu! I love playing tourist in my own city and I…
March 1951. A three-page spread on Jackson Pollock was published in Vogue titled American Fashion: The New Soft Look. Sir Cecil Beaton, one of the most praised British portrait photographers ever, had taken the photos in which Pollock’s radical and dazzling…
Images did and still do have an enormous power over the human psyche. As we examine art images in (especially) world religions, one of the most significant symbols used to express the nature of the divine is the cloud. In Mesopotamian, Egyptian…
Coolly Cameron Highlands The night before we left Kuala Lumpur for the Cameron Highlands, Thomas and I thought it would be a great idea to go ‘clubbing’ in Changkat Bukit Bintang. This avenue resembles to the Lange Leidsedwarsstraat in Amsterdam, which is only…
Dive into the world of Contemporary Design Yesterday evening. 7 PM. I almost saw Leonardo on the foredeck shouting out: I’m the king of the Woooooorrrrrrld! Massive Titanic brainwave! Nothing could be further from the truth. What I really saw was the fantastic…
Selamat datang ke Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Honeeeeeey, were going to Malaysia and Malaysian Borneo! What do I need to take with me? A couple of shorts, long pants, but not too much because it is HOT out there! Heels? No of…
Untouched by time Bruges is by far the best place in Belgium that preserved its totally ancient appearance with its intricate network of canals. Bruges: Venice of the North. A mega cliche, but oh so true. When you wander through the small streets…
The ExPRADAmental art of Fondazione Prada Wow, time flies. It’s almost 4 years ago that I graduated with honors for my master’s in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Amsterdam. My thesis? It’s called: ‘ExPRADAmental Art. The integration of contemporary…
Lift me up to the sky One look at the surrealistic series Flying Houses of Laurent Chehere (1972, Paris) and the Pixar movie UP comes to mind. A movie in which a retired man named Carl ties balloons to his…
