July 11, 2025
Athens, GR 14 C
Expand search form
Blog

Ruth Leon recommends…. Ten Things – Rijksmuseum

Ruth Leon recommends…. Ten Things – Rijksmuseum

 Ten things Point of View

Click here to watch
On the website for the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s great museum, there is a series of  called Ten Things. Drawn from their own collections, the curators have drawn parallels to give insights into particular aspects of their artworks and, often, to explain Dutch culture and history while showing images of the different items.

This one, Ten Things Point of View, is about the collection seen from a gender perspective. What you wear in the morning, which desk you work at or how you are photographed: ideas about gender affect everyone. However, how they are shaped varies from century to century and place to place. What do you see when you look at the Rijksmuseum’s collection with a gender take?

Take a look at all the 10 Things videos; they are all a joy to watch and you may even learn something you didn’t know before.

Read more

The post Ruth Leon recommends…. Ten Things – Rijksmuseum appeared first on Slippedisc.

Previous Article

Engaging zest: Mike Leigh’s production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance returns to ENO with a cast mixing innocence & experience

Next Article

The continuing resurgence of Nicolai Porpora: L’Angelica from Martina Franca

You might be interested in …

Orchestra goes on strike in Washington DC

Orchestra goes on strike in Washington DC

The National Symphony Orchestra has erased the start of its season. Statement from the Kennedy Center: After months of largely collaborative and constructive labor negotiations, the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) are […]

Just in: Yuja cancels, Vikingur goes solo

Just in: Yuja cancels, Vikingur goes solo

Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music regrets that, due to health reasons, Yuja Wang is unable to perform with Víkingur Ólafsson tonight and tomorrow. The sold-out concerts will go ahead with Ólafsson playing the Goldberg Variations. In addition, the Conservatory […]

The harp? It’s a nothingburger

The harp? It’s a nothingburger

An entertaining essay in the New York Times by harpist Parker Ramsaydoes its damnedest to pluck the instrument from obscurity. … I’m a professional harpist. So is my mother. Some of my earliest exposure to […]