A popular podcast in the Netherlands is showing the Dutch how to face their country's colonial and slave-trading past as lawmakers push for a national apology and reparations. People once called it ...
Last week while on holiday I read a book called The Silk Roads. Its title hints at the still underappreciated importance of supply chain as a discipline. The lessons it offers about how trade, ...
IN 1881 SOMEONE donated an antique brass circlet to the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum of art and history. The object (pictured) is a bit of a stumper. Engraved with a heraldic shield and the ...
It is Hamburg on the opening Sunday of the European Championship and the north German port city is cosplaying as Amsterdam. The Reeperbahn is a carpet of orange fans, stretching, swaying, and bouncing ...
Margareta Haverman, “A Vase of Flowers” (1716), oil on wood (image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) We don’t know much about the life of Margareta Haverman, painter of “A Vase of Flowers” ...