| The city breaks, builds, | |
| traffic comes before art and -- | |
| passes under it. | |
| De stad breekt en bouwt, | Die Stadt bricht und baut, |
| verkeer gaat boven de kunst -- | Verkehr kommt vor Kunst und geht -- |
| en er onderdoor. | unter ihr hindurch. |
Amsterdam, 2025-04-22
With a photo of the Museumstraat (Museum Street), over which the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam was built; until 1931 this was a road for cars (right above the photographed southern gate hangs Rembrandt's Night Watch)
Collection: Migration
Dedicated to: Lotte W
| Antivertising art: | |
| an advertising column -- | |
| that is a mirror. | |
| Anti-reclame- | Schau, Anti-Werbung- |
| kunst op straat: een peperbus -- | Kunst: eine Litfaßsäule -- |
| die een spiegel is. | die ein Spiegel ist. |
Amsterdam, 2025-04-22
With a photo of an advertising column on the corner of Rijnsburgstraat and Sloterkade in Amsterdam, covered by Mischa Rakier with mirroring HPL (High Pressured Laminate), October 1st, 2011
Collection: Local tardiness
Dedicated to: Lotte W, Madelief dK
| Expensive art works | |
| are sacred in museums -- | |
| No Iconoclasm? | |
| De duurste kunst is | Die teuerste Kunst |
| heilig in de musea -- | ist heilig in Museen -- |
| Weer een Beeldenstorm? | Kommt ein Bildersturm? |
Amsterdam, 2025-03-06
Duel (Joost Zwagerman) - 2010
Novella, chapter 3
Collection: Being my own museum
Tribute to: Zwagerman, Joost
| Something terrible | |
| can seem beautiful in art -- | |
| Necessity! (Lie?) | |
| Iets verschrikkelijks | Etwas Schreckliches |
| kan in de kunst mooi lijken -- | kann in der Kunst schön wirken -- |
| Noodzaak! (Of leugen?) | Notwendig! (Lüge?) |
Amsterdam, 2024-08-13
Art and Eros (Iris Murdoch) - 1980
Play "[Acastos -] Art and Eros", a Platonic dialogue - The imperfection of aestheticisation is preferable to the lie of concealment. To sweeten a bitter pill
Collection: Longing and Loss
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris
| Art is a shadow | |
| play of life, both cannot be -- | |
| understood deeply. | |
| Kunst is een schimmen- | Kunst ist ein Schatten- |
| spel van het leven, beide -- | spiel des Lebens, und beides -- |
| onbegrijpelijk. | ist unverständlich. |
Amsterdam, 2024-08-13
Art and Eros (Iris Murdoch) - 1980
Play "[Acastos -] Art and Eros", a Platonic dialogue
Collection: Longing and Loss
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris
| Politics doesn't bring | |
| you anything, it's not art -- | |
| and it's not science. | |
| Politiek levert | Die Politik bringt |
| je niets op, ze is geen kunst -- | dir nichts, sie ist keine Kunst -- |
| en geen wetenschap. | keine Wissenschaft. |
Amsterdam, 2024-08-12
The Three Arrows (Iris Murdoch) - 1972
Play, Act Two, scene Two
Collection: Dreams of love
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris
| The theatres close, | |
| maybe we'll see that again -- | |
| in a film series. | |
| Theaters sluiten, | Theater schließen, |
| misschien zien we dat nog eens -- | vielleicht sehen wir das noch- |
| in een filmserie. | mal als Filmreihe. |
Amsterdam, 2024-06-20
Belated parliamentary questions (Lieke Marsman) - 2020
Poem "Verlate kamervragen", for the "Occupied City" project (lockdown due to covid-19), published in the collection "In mijn mand" (2021)
Collection: Within the walls
Tribute to: Marsman, Lieke
| Does a work of art | |
| exist if it is secured -- | |
| in a heavy safe? | |
| Bestaat een kunstwerk | Besteht ein Kunstwerk, |
| als het beveiligd bewaard -- | wenn es gut aufbewahrt wird -- |
| wordt in een bankkluis? | in einem Tresor? |
Amsterdam, 2024-01-17
Collection: The Yellow House Museum
| The poets throw words | |
| down from the mountain, hop, hop -- | |
| into the deep swamp. | |
| De dichters gooien | Die Dichter werfen |
| woorden de berg af, ketsend -- | Worte den Berg hinunter -- |
| ginds het moeras in. | hüpf, hüpf, in den Sumpf. |
Amsterdam, 2023-10-04
View (Anna Enquist) - 2020
Poem "Uitzicht" (in the Poëziekrant, summer 2020, and in the collection "Berichten van het front", 2020)
Collection: Whirligig Scribbler
Tribute to: Enquist, Anna
| Gathering dust in | |
| a closet: the painting that -- | |
| would raise quite some dust. | |
| In de bezemkast | Hier im Besenschrank |
| verstoft een kunstwerk dat stof -- | verstaubt ein Kunstwerk, das Staub -- |
| zou doen opwaaien. | aufwirbeln würde. |
Amsterdam, 2023-07-21
Interview by Margot Dijkgraaf with Lola Lafon - 2023
Interview in the NRC of July 21st, 2023
Collection: Dearme
Tribute to: Lafon, Lola
| To believe in art | |
| I am visiting churches -- | |
| of art: museums. | |
| Om te geloven | Um zu glauben an |
| in kunst, bezoek ik kerken -- | Kunst, besuche ich Kirchen -- |
| van kunst: musea. | der Kunst: Museen. |
Amsterdam, 2019-07-12
Vincent thought his sunflowers were the best (Sandra Smets) - 2019
Review in NRC
Collection: Specialities
Tribute to: Smets, Sandra; Van Gogh, Vincent
|
Those in power no longer torture |
Amsterdam, 2019-06-28
King Philip II (1527-1598) bought the triptych "Garden of Delights" (from 1480-1490, by Jheronymus Bosch) in 1591, which Alva in 1567/1568 had robbed from the palace of William of Orange-Nassau (1533-1584) in Brussels
Collection: BloodTrunk
Tribute to: Bosch, Jheronymus
| Reading a novel | |
| is diving deep in a well -- | |
| of observations. | |
| Een roman lezen | Romane lesen |
| is diep duiken, in een bron -- | ist tief tauchen, in Brunnen -- |
| vol waarnemingen. | voller Wahrnehmung. |
Amsterdam, 2019-02-12
Murakami's Well (Juneau) - 2015
Haiku (AllPoetry.com)
Collection: Specialities
Tribute to: Juneau
|
For people like me |
Amsterdam, 2018-11-10
Collection: The Yellow House Museum
| The everyday lies | |
| in any theatre play -- | |
| are very truthful. | |
| De alledaagse | Die alltäglichen |
| leugens in een toneelstuk -- | Lügen in Bühnenstücken -- |
| zijn waarheidsgetrouw. | sind wahrheitsgetreu. |
Amsterdam, 2018-01-30
The sea, the sea (Iris Murdoch) - 1978
Novel
Collection: Longing and Loss
Tribute to: Murdoch, Iris
