It's as easy as abc
As you might have heard, the cities of amsterdam,
brussels
and cologne
have teamed up for an unforgettable travel experiences.
The three cosmopolitan cities invite you to come and discover
this cultural triangle.
With three international airports being conveniently
located in the area – each offering direct flights
from the US and connecting flights to and from almost
every other European airport visiting this exciting cultural
triangle really is as easy as a
b c. Whether you travel from amsterdam
to brussels, from brussels to cologne or any other order
within the triangle, your travel time will be less than
two and a half hours.
Discover picturesque medieval streets and houses, lively
squares, trendy shopping streets, cozy cafes, top restaurants,
world-famous museums, stunning art galleries and cutting
edge architecture.
Find out all about the upcoming cultural hightlights
of this summer in amsterdam,
brussels
and cologne!
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Cultural Highlights in Amsterdam - Summer
/ Fall 2007
Just
Opened, New Museum!
The Museum of Bags and Purses, which opened in June, is
a unique
museum that through its collection of over 3500 bags and
accessories
shows the history of the ladies bag in Western culture.
The museum is
located in a magnificent 17th century building along a
canal.
www.tassenmuseum.nl
July 13 - 15, 2007
North Sea Jazz Festival
- Ahoy, Rotterdam
One of the greatest jazz events in the world, featuring
top jazz
musicians as well as blues, soul, R&B, crossover and
world-music
artists. www.northseajazz.nl
Agust 11 - 19, 2007
Canal Festival
(Grachten Festival) - Amsterdam
A summer spectacle for music lovers, filling the Amsterdam
summer
evenings with classical music. Large crowds of people
will gather in the
city center to enjoy the free classical concerts on and
around the
Amsterdam canals. Highlight is the Prinsengracht concert
which takes
place in front of the Pulitzer hotel.
www.grachtenfestival.nl
October 13, 2007 - May 5, 2008
Hermitage Amsterdam
- Art Nouveau
St
Petersburg is often seen as the city of Peter and Catherine
the Great, a place full of palaces with art from the 17th
and 18th centuries. But the city also took part in the
European art movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
This was certainly the case with the ‘new styles’
that conquered Europe around 1900: Jugendstil, the Vienna
Secession and Art Nouveau found an echo in the city on
the Neva. The new art of France was particularly appreciated.
The people of St Petersburg bought the striking French
works and had their houses remodeled in the new style;
Russian artists created their own version of it. The last
Tsar and Tsarina, Nicholas and Alexandra, were keen followers
of the new fashion. In an unusual exhibition the Hermitage
Amsterdam is presenting the best of French and Russian
Art Nouveau. www.hermitage.nl
Cultural Highlights in Brussels -
Summer / Fall 2007
September 14, 2007 - January 27,
2008
Royal
Museums of Fine Arts
Rubens, a Genius at Work
The
Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels are staging a major
Rubens exhibition this autumn. The exhibition will include
some 50 works by the baroque artist that are already in
Belgium. Works that the Antwerp painter produced together
with other masters including Jan Brueghel the Elder and
Cornelis de Vos will also be on show.
Some sixty paintings and drawings will be on loan from
museums abroad, including the Paris Louvre, the Prado
in Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
The exhibition hopes to give the general public greater
insight into the way Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and
his peers created their most famous works.
www.fine-arts-museum.be/site/EN/frames/F_expo.html
August
8, 2007 - March 3, 2008
Basilica
of Koekelberg, Brussels
Leonardo Da Vinci – The European Genius
In the magnificent setting of the Basilica of Koekelberg
from August 18, 2007 through March 15, 2008 visitors can
discover Leonardo Da Vinci, the inventor and thinker.
The exhibition will show original documents, scale models,
notebooks as well as several of Leonardo’s inventions.
The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the
signature of the Treaty of Rome and is co produced by
« Europa 50 » and the European Commission.
www.expo-davinci.eu
The
Belgian Museum for Comic Strip Art, Brussels
As Tintin, the boy reporter goes Hollywood discover what
Belgians consider the ninth art. The Smurfs, Tintin, Snowy
and Marsupilami are all animated characters that have
sprouted from the imagination of Belgian cartoonists.
The Waucquez Warehouses, home of the Belgian Museum for
Comic Strip Art, is considered to be one of the masterpieces
of the most famous Belgian Art Nouveau architect, Victor
Horta.
And here the latest news about Tintin, Belgium's most
famous comic strip hero: Fans of the boy reporter will
finally see their wish come true. None other than Steven
Spielberg and his company DreamWorks - together with Peter
Jackson of "The Lord of the Rings" - have committed
to produce three back to back feature movies about three
of the many adventures of Tintin and his dog Snowy. The
first film could be in the theaters in two years. Meanwhile,
Tintin fans can find out more about Tintin and his friends
here:
www.visitbelgium.com/mediaroom/AnniversaryofHerge.htm
Cultural Highlights in Cologne - Summer
/ Fall 2007
July 14, 2007
Kölner
Lichter - Fireworks on the Rhine
On July 14th Germany’s largest high-altitude and
synchronized-music firework will again illuminate the
sky. With its special atmosphere, the event attracts hundreds
of thousands of visitors to Cologne every year.
www.cologne-tourism.de
August 18 - November 4, 2007
Balthus
- Time suspended. Paintings and Drawings 1932 to 1960.
In
Autumn of 2007 the Museum Ludwig will show an exhibition
of selected works by the French artist Balthus (Balthasar
Klossowski, born to German parents, 1908 - 2001.) Preceding
the hundredth anniversary of Balthus’s birth by
one year, it will be the first show devoted to the artist
in Germany. Balthus’s first exhibition at the Galerie
Pierre in Paris in 1934 was what the period liked to call
a “scandal,” and just what he had intended.
In his handful of large paintings he subverted familiar
subjects – a girl at a window, in front of a mirror,
at her toilet or receiving a music lesson – by turning
them into scenes of hard-edged eroticism with a strongly
sadomasochistic undercurrent. After Edward Hopper and
Salvador Dalí, with this show the Museum Ludwig
continues the series of monographical exhibitions devoted
to great painters of the 20th century.
www.museenkoeln.de/english/museum-ludwig/
September 7 - November 17, 2007
Hotel
California – Dolron & Wrede in a Dialogue
From
theme park to martyrdom and paradise with a fakir –
the exhibition Hotel California at the Wallraff-Richartz
museum Cologne sends the visitor on an emotional roller-coaster
ride between heaven and hell – this is the essence
of a project in which medieval painting and prints from
the early Baroque period are confronted with works by
these contemporary photo-artists Desiree Dolron and Thomas
Wrede.
www.museenkoeln.de/english/wallraf-richartz-museum
September 28, 2007 - January 6,
2008
Chargesheimer.
A Bohemian from Cologne in the Post-War Days
This exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Cologne will present
a broad and extensive picture of the “Life and Work”
of this Cologne photographer and artist, showing many
of the facets of Chargesheimer’s work and analyzing
it against the backdrop of the cultural history of the
period after 1945. Apart from his large estate, which
is in the keeping of Museum Ludwig, it has been possible
to track down a large number of documents and photographs
for this exhibition that had previously remained in total
obscurity.
www.museenkoeln.de/english/museum-ludwig/
