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On 16th of February the 4th edition of Palais Paradiso will take place with a live fine arts and performance program. For this yearly event, artists are invited to show their (performative) art in Paradiso. The theme for this year is “The Talent Show”. It’s a wink towards the immense amount of talent shows of today and the participating artists will showcase their best tricks. A sequence of perfor

Tudor has become an icon of retro chic style, a seductive expression of form and function rooted in supreme reliability. This year, they again pay homage to its unique values and its six decade heritage by launching an updated version of the Tudor Heritage Advisor model, one of the brand’s emblematic pieces.

The Heritage Advisor is the latest addition to the Heritage line, which was launched

Rocket Cinema proudly presents it’s third biannual festival, blasting off on 28 October in Amsterdam and then orbiting around a further 8 destinations before landing in Groningen on 26 November. Inspired by this year’s theme of ‘Adventure’, DJs, artists and musicians have been invited to create and perform new soundtracks for vintage movies.

The journey begins at the Planetarium in Amst

Sometimes you need a little help getting inspired, no matter how great a city is. We know this, which is why with a little help from Samsung GALAXY S II, we’ve pulled together 25 influencers from London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and Barcelona to give you personal video tours that reveal the essence of the city, in depth and in style.

We’re not talking about some cheesy tour guide holding a fl

Germaine Kruip is a Dutch artist whose creative infatuation lies on the interplay between light and shadow and the passage of time. Revered for her innovative installations that creatively manipulate the project space she is working with, Germaine designed the NYC Jil Sander store. There she created a resplendent consumer stage—where each visitor became an actor—complete with revolving

Dear utopists, darwinists, former bankers, believers, anarchists, romans, countrymen,

From September 1-11 the sixth edition of the Amsterdam Fringe Festival will once again raise the city’s rooftops; an adventurous mix of theatrical anarchy and creative explosions, where events will be held in clubs and theaters, as well as on the streets and in living rooms. In the past three years the F

The technically perfect, austere pictures by Wendelien Daan (Eindhoven, 1965) do not betray the fact that she is self-educated. She was a student of fashion design at the ArtEZ Art College in Arnhem, but took a short cut to the perfect final result by taking up photographing after her graduation. Her work situates you in a world where people and everyday objects may sometimes come across as rather

For a period of three days, Arnhem’s O.K. Festival will be all about independent magazines …

A quick reminder: people, quality, and companies of long tradition in the context of contemporary design and economics, this is the motto of A Guide Magazine. The first issue, published back in last October, focused exclusively on “handcrafts” in connection with this interesting field of inquiry

Highlight of the Swatch MTV Playground will be an ‘art battle’ in association with Vice and DJBroadcast that sees artists go head to head on canvas against the clock. Fighting it out on September 5th to create the best and most original work will be Dutch illustrators Menno Mans and Stefan Glerum and the MC and host for the battle will be Lyrical Tie.

Menno Mans

Menno Mans is an illustr

If you’re an animation addict, fashion fanatic or design devotee but you don’t like the boring white gallery and white wine that normally go with art exhibitions, Swatch and MTV have a radical new art experience for you to enjoy. Swatch MTV Playground presents a fresh and original exhibition, as part of this year’s Valtifest; that allows you to be the curator and to put the ‘show’ back into ‘