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The Hill
08-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hill
Dutch museum reevaluating art loans to US under Trump
The director of the Mauritshuis museum in the Netherlands said the Trump administration's proposed funding cuts to exhibitions have caused the team to reconsider loaning art to the United States. Martine Gosselink said talks of lending items to museums in the U.S. have taken place but the president's March executive order seeking to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services raised concerns. A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from dissolving the agency that financially supports archives and museums in every state. 'I'm not saying we won't do it,' Gosselik said in an interview with The Guardian about potentially loaning art pieces. 'But we will be extra careful, and we need guarantees. Because if you lend it out to a museum and there's not enough staff to treat it in the way you want [it] to be treated, then we wonder whether it's a good thing to be sending our collection.' A few weeks after the order, Trump targeted Smithsonian museums with a federal overhaul due to narratives the White House claimed were 'divisive, race-centered ideology.' 'Museums in our Nation's capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history,' Trump's late March order states. Gosselink said the orders threaten the artwork's ability to be displayed to the public. 'How do you know for sure that the museum will still be open and working and operating during the whole period of the loan?'she stated. The museum director also said she empathizes with her counterparts overseas. 'We really feel for our colleagues in American institutions about what's happening in archives, libraries and museums,' said Gosselink. 'It's a huge catastrophe.'
Asharq Al-Awsat
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Asharq Al-Awsat
From Orange Peels to Bottle Caps: Thousands of Artists Create Their Own ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring'
After sending its most famous work to be featured in Amsterdam's blockbuster 2023 exhibition of nearly every work by Johannes Vermeer, the Mauritshuis museum found itself with a blank space where the iconic 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' had been displayed. The Hague-based institution turned to more than 2,700 artists, from Texas to Ukraine, from age 7 to 70, who created their own interpretations of the 17th-century masterpiece. A selection of 60 works using materials ranging from orange peels to bottle caps to sweatshirts were exhibited in the museum while the painting was on loan 40 miles (64 kilometers) to the north. 'The submissions continue to come, it will never end with her,' Martine Gosselink, director of the Mauritshuis museum, told The Associated Press, pointing to the ongoing popularity of works featuring the mystery girl. A 2020 investigation into the painting using a battery of modern imaging techniques uncovered details about Vermeer's methods and the makeup of his pigments, but not the young woman's identity. 'I bring together the original The Girl with a Pearl and the face of a Wayang puppet,' artist Rob de Heer told the AP, standing in front of a screen in the museum's foyer where all of the winning submissions are displayed. De Heer, who primarily works with mixed media, wanted to take an image from the Golden Age history of the Netherlands and combine it with one evoking its colonial legacy. Wayang puppets are a traditional form of theater in parts of Indonesia, which was ruled by the Netherlands until 1949. His surrealist work is followed in the rolling display by a piece featuring the original girl's face superimposed on an antique tea tin. Other submissions include works by South Korean artist Nanan Kang, who used an ear of corn for the face; Georgian artist Nino Kavazauri, who reimagined a modern girl waiting at a bus stop with a cup of coffee; and Simon Chong, a Welsh animator, who works on the popular television series 'Bob's Burgers' and created a girl in the show's cartoon style. The winners were displayed in a replica frame in the exact spot where 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' usually hangs, between two portraits by Dutch Baroque painter Gerard ter Borch. The popularity of the first competition prompted a second round and those submissions are now on display at the Fabrique des Lumières in Amsterdam. The museum continues to feature submitted works of art on its Instagram page. Gosselink, who has been the museum's director since 2020, said the breadth and depth of the works made it difficult to select who would be featured in the exhibition. 'I would dare to say that some of the ones we selected are new pieces of art, and they would be served very well in a new surrounding, like a museum," Gosselink said.
The Independent
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
From orange peels to bottle caps: Thousands of artists create their own 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'
After sending its most famous work to be featured in Amsterdam's blockbuster 2023 exhibition of nearly every work by Johannes Vermeer, the Mauritshuis museum found itself with a blank space where the iconic 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' had been displayed. The Hague-based institution turned to more than 2,700 artists, from Texas to Ukraine, from age 7 to 70, who created their own interpretations of the 17th-century masterpiece. A selection of 60 works using materials ranging from orange peels to bottle caps to sweatshirts were exhibited in the museum while the painting was on loan 40 miles (64 kilometers) to the north. 'The submissions continue to come, it will never end with her,' Martine Gosselink, director of the Mauritshuis museum, told The Associated Press, pointing to the ongoing popularity of works featuring the mystery girl. A 2020 investigation into the painting using a battery of modern imaging techniques uncovered details about Vermeer's methods and the makeup of his pigments, but not the young woman's identity. 'I bring together the original The Girl with a Pearl and the face of a Wayang puppet,' artist Rob de Heer told the AP, standing in front of a screen in the museum's foyer where all of the winning submissions are displayed. De Heer, who primarily works with mixed media, wanted to take an image from the Golden Age history of the Netherlands and combine it with one evoking its colonial legacy. Wayang puppets are a traditional form of theater in parts of Indonesia, which was ruled by the Netherlands until 1949. His surrealist work is followed in the rolling display by a piece featuring the original girl's face superimposed on an antique tea tin. Other submissions include works by South Korean artist Nanan Kang, who used an ear of corn for the face; Georgian artist Nino Kavazauri, who reimagined a modern girl waiting at a bus stop with a cup of coffee; and Simon Chong, a Welsh animator, who works on the popular television series 'Bob's Burgers' and created a girl in the show's cartoon style. The winners were displayed in a replica frame in the exact spot where 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' usually hangs, between two portraits by Dutch Baroque painter Gerard ter Borch. The popularity of the first competition prompted a second round and those submissions are now on display at the Fabrique des Lumières in Amsterdam. The museum continues to feature submitted works of art on its Instagram page. Gosselink, who has been the museum's director since 2020, said the breadth and depth of the works made it difficult to select who would be featured in the exhibition. 'I would dare to say that some of the ones we selected are new pieces of art, and they would be served very well in a new surrounding, like a museum," Gosselink said.
Associated Press
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
From orange peels to bottle caps: Thousands of artists create their own ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring'
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — After sending its most famous work to be featured in Amsterdam's blockbuster 2023 exhibition of nearly every work by Johannes Vermeer, the Mauritshuis museum found itself with a blank space where the iconic 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' had been displayed. The Hague-based institution turned to more than 2,700 artists, from Texas to Ukraine, from age 7 to 70, who created their own interpretations of the 17th-century masterpiece. A selection of 60 works using materials ranging from orange peels to bottle caps to sweatshirts were exhibited in the museum while the painting was on loan 40 miles (64 kilometers) to the north. 'The submissions continue to come, it will never end with her,' Martine Gosselink, director of the Mauritshuis museum, told The Associated Press, pointing to the ongoing popularity of works featuring the mystery girl. A 2020 investigation into the painting using a battery of modern imaging techniques uncovered details about Vermeer's methods and the makeup of his pigments, but not the young woman's identity. 'I bring together the original The Girl with a Pearl and the face of a Wayang puppet,' artist Rob de Heer told the AP, standing in front of a screen in the museum's foyer where all of the winning submissions are displayed. De Heer, who primarily works with mixed media, wanted to take an image from the Golden Age history of the Netherlands and combine it with one evoking its colonial legacy. Wayang puppets are a traditional form of theater in parts of Indonesia, which was ruled by the Netherlands until 1949. His surrealist work is followed in the rolling display by a piece featuring the original girl's face superimposed on an antique tea tin. Other submissions include works by South Korean artist Nanan Kang, who used an ear of corn for the face; Georgian artist Nino Kavazauri, who reimagined a modern girl waiting at a bus stop with a cup of coffee; and Simon Chong, a Welsh animator, who works on the popular television series 'Bob's Burgers' and created a girl in the show's cartoon style. The winners were displayed in a replica frame in the exact spot where 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' usually hangs, between two portraits by Dutch Baroque painter Gerard ter Borch. The popularity of the first competition prompted a second round and those submissions are now on display at the Fabrique des Lumières in Amsterdam. The museum continues to feature submitted works of art on its Instagram page. Gosselink, who has been the museum's director since 2020, said the breadth and depth of the works made it difficult to select who would be featured in the exhibition. 'I would dare to say that some of the ones we selected are new pieces of art, and they would be served very well in a new surrounding, like a museum,' Gosselink said.
