Such cool entertainment. Literally! The fountains start on two sides and you can quickly get into the middlebefore the water gushes out of the other sides and gets you! A kind of 'chicken' game. So Dave had a go. Here is a fine portrait of my husband - marooned! The thing is that you just can't stop watching people play and applaud the mishaps. These fountains are set in the formal Rijksmuseum gardens to celebrate the newly reopened Rijksmuseum (which for the record had been … [Read more...]
Henry Moore visits Amsterdam
I can understand why the Dutch love Moore so much - a lot of the public artworks that abound in Holland are seemingly simple evocative shapes. Twelve sculptures by Henry Moore adorn and celebrate the newly re-opened Rijksmuseum and the senior sculpture curator Frits Scholten said that the British pieces would complement 17th- and 18th-century garden. I think the idea of complementing old formal gardens with modern sculpture gives everything an edge and creates some exciting artistic … [Read more...]