by Nicolas Genty | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog
There is little to be watched on TV in general and on Dutch TV in particular. There is however this program “het perfecte plaatje”, the perfect picture in which famous Dutch people compete in weekly challenges to deliver perfect pictures. Up to them to...
by Nicolas Genty | Jan 15, 2024 | Blog
The year was 1990. A century ago. Live on CNN on February 11th, an older man with grey hair wearing a grey suit was released from prison in Cape Town in front of the world. He was grave but smiling and waving at the cheering crowd assembled to meet him again, after 27...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 14, 2023 | Blog
“There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” This quote by an obscure American pianist, composer, author, comedian and actor Oscar Levant could have been made by Yayoi Kusama. Now 94 and living already since the 1970s in a mental...
by Nicolas Genty | Dec 11, 2023 | Blog
Frederick Linck was likely right-brained, being a photographer, creative and artistic. He was also left-brained with his methodical capturing of the people around him, on the street or in their daily activities. He often found his subjects in his immediate...
by Nicolas Genty | Nov 28, 2023 | Blog
A large retrospective of Daido Moriyama constitutes, by itself, a very good reason to travel to London. The greatest living Japanese photographer, born in 1938, a veteran, has been very productive throughout his life, and a great inspiration to many. From the American...
by Nicolas Genty | Nov 8, 2023 | Blog
The Affordable Art Fair in Amsterdam is the yearly rendez-vous for art lovers of all sorts, from top notch connoisseurs ready to spend tons of money to enlightened amateurs looking for a good deal to just by-standers and young parents on an early morning leisurely...
