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Whistler. Dandy and Disruptor
The first retrospective in the Netherlands devoted to James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903): painter, printmaker, aesthete and enfant terrible.
תצוגה מקדימה: נכתב לפני פתיחת התערוכה
Reviewing this same retrospective at Tate Britain in May 2026, Jonathan Jones of the Guardian called it a "luscious, seductive blockbuster" and said Whistler's mother looks like "a carving from a medieval tomb". The Telegraph's Alastair Sooke liked the "crisp" storytelling but counted "too many" reproductions of works that couldn't travel.
Amsterdam's version, made with Tate, has some 100 works: the mother herself, lent by the Musée d'Orsay, the Thames nocturnes, the White Girls series and life-sized society portraits. The museum adds Vincent's view. You can read what he wrote to his sister about that portrait: "When I think of Mother she too appears like that to me." One loan, Effie Deans, only had to cross Museumplein from the Rijksmuseum.
It's included in the museum ticket (€25, €26 from January, under-18s free), with timed entry booked online and an audio tour you can add when you book. Fridays run until 21:00. For Whistler's Amsterdam etchings, see the companion show at The Mesdag Collection in The Hague.
בחירת העורכים
אמו של Whistler, שהושאלה על ידי Musée d’Orsay, מוצגת לצד ציורי הלילה של התמזה ודיוקנאות בגודל טבעי של אנשי החברה הגבוהה. ה־Guardian כינה את התערוכה בטייט ״שוברת קופות מענגת ומפתה״; באמסטרדם מתווסף גם מה ש־Vincent כתב על הדיוקן הזה.
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Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother
Anna Whistler sits in black against grey on a canvas over 1.6 metres wide; the Guardian called her face "rigid, lightless and cold".
The Thames nocturnes
Look for the night views of the river, among them Nocturne: Blue and Silver, Chelsea, lent by Tate.
Portrait of George W. Vanderbilt
One of the life-sized society portraits: the American millionaire painted on a canvas more than two metres tall.
Arrangement in Yellow and Gray: Effie Deans
A near two-metre full-length figure in yellow and grey, lent by the Rijksmuseum across the square.
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- ביקורי ערב
- ביקור ראשון
- אורחים מחוץ לעיר
עם ילדים
Under-18s get in free. The museum also runs painting workshops alongside the show where you make your own Nocturne.
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- Whistler. Dandy and DisruptorCourtesy of Van Gogh Museum
- Yayoi KusamaNcysea / Wikimedia Commons
- Carel Visser בגן הפסלים של Rijksmuseum (Carel Visser in the Rijksmuseum Gardens)Courtesy of Rijksmuseum
- Van Gogh MuseumSteven Lek, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Moco MuseumC messier, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Stedelijk Museum AmsterdamJohn Lewis Marshall, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- RijksmuseumTrougnouf (Benoit Brummer) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Museum Van LoonRijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0