Marga van Mechelen

Once every few years, a new art museum is conceived in the Netherlands. Not every conception, however, leads to birth. More often than not, they revolve around the collections of private collectors, deemed museum-worthy—at least by their owners. One notable failure was the museum intended to house the Scheringa Collection. The 10,000-square-metre building, designed by…… Read more

With the word nostalgia, you can go in almost any direction —except the right one. That familiar Dutch saying was my immediate reaction after reading the editorials in the special Nostalgia issue of the art magazine Metropolis M. This despite the editor-in-chief’s attempt to pre-empt criticism by arguing that our present moment calls for a…… Read more

Part II On my way back from Paris and Disneyland, I visited the MUDAM (Museum of Modern Art) in Luxembourg, on the third of May, where I encountered a blissful Sunday calm. I had come for the exhibitions of Ivan Cheng and Simon Fujiwara. Not well prepared, I stepped to my surprise into Fujiwara’s “worlds…… Read more