Finally art you are aloud to touch! As a part of the interactive exposition of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, artist Daan Roosegaarde made a landscape of lights called DUNE. DUNE is a landscape that interacts with human behaviour. This mix of nature and technology is composed of recycled synthetic material and LED-lights that brighten according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors. The landscape is a social design, it can be placed outside to give a save feeling to people who walks alone in the dark.

The interactive exposition in the Stedelijk, named Touch and Tweet, can be visit from 16th of May till the first of September. There is also an interactive project to see of the British artists Hellicar & Lewis. Their project named The Hello Cube, which reacts to Tweets! It is developed with children and gives everyone the chance to have an artistic experience made by own tweets.

Worth to experience!
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Art you can touch

DUNE, Daan Roosegaarde (2013)

The weekend of the Rolling Kitchens is back! This weekend will be the sixth edition of the four days food festival. Tens of mobile kitchens set place in the Westerpark to create an enormous open-air restaurant. There is food for every appetite, from pizzas to sophisticated oysters. While everybody is eating there is music to enjoy and when the sun is under an outdoor movie starts.

The Rolling Kitchens is from 9 to 12 May 2013, open from 13:00 to 23:00. It sets place in the Westerpark in Amsterdam and everybody is welcome. So check it out!

Merci, the famous store in Paris, finally has an online store with worldwide shipping!!

Merci is a store in the heart of the historic district of Haut-Marais. The founders created a place that brings together the best of the world of fashion, of design, of household goods with delicious welcome bites to eat. It’s located in a majestic loft where you can browse from room to room like in a real house.The store has three cafés; The Used Book Café, The Cinema Café and The Merci Canteen, where you can eat lunch while you read a book, or watch a movie during a delicious cup of coffee.

Merci actually functions as a very stylish charity shop: all the proceeds of the shop are invested in educational projects in Madagascar. Since the end of 2012, more than 900 children have benefitted from the pleasure of enjoying a well-balanced daily meal. The goal is to integrate education into the micro-region of southwest Madagascar and to make the school a solid and stable institution.

The online-merci-store is open since yesterday. Happily we now all can shop at this amazing concept store!

After ten years of rebuilding, renovation and restoration, the queen will officially open the museum on 13 April 2013. That’s after a five-year delay and €375 million price tag. Never before has a national museum undergone such a complete transformation of both its building and the presentation of its collection.

The opening is extra special because it is one of the last official duties of the Dutch queen before she abdicates. Beatrix has a huge interest for art; therefor this is the perfect job for her to do.

The entire presentation of the Rijksmuseum’s world-famous collection is new, except for Rembrandt’s masterpiece The Night Watch, which has been returned to its original position. For the very first time, visitors will be taken on a chronological journey through the collection in 80 galleries, where 8,000 objects tell the story of 800 years of Dutch art and history.

There is made a documentary about the fascinating and complicated process of rebuilding Holland’s most famous museum. See here the preview.

A piece of art consists actress Swinton sleeping in a glass box. The piece is named “The Maybe”. “The Maybe” is for the first time performed by Swinton in 1995 at the Serpentine Gallery in London, in collaboration with the artist Cornelia Parker. Swinton later staged it in Rome and Paris, without Parker.

Currently the performance piece is on display in the Museum Of Modern Art in New York. It was a surprise for the visitors because she showed up at the museum unannounced. Still it is a surprise if you’ll catch her when you visit the museum, because nobody knows when she will be in her box.

Tilda Swinton who was born on 5 November 1960, is a British actress known for arthouse and mainstream films. She has appeared in a number of films including Burn After Reading, The Beach, The Chronicles of Narnia, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performances in The Deep End and We Need to Talk About Kevin. She won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Michael Clayton.