A Day in 2023: Best in Show
It's that time of year when the media lay out for us a round-up of 2023 happenings: celebrity deaths, best films, government mishaps, rail and travel chaos....
‘En Garde’, 2023 Ron Mueck (at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris)
Image copyright - Rosalind Ormiston October 2023, www.rosalindormiston.com
The best of 2023 - for me - professional happenings, no family stuff - began with the Best show in Europe, ‘Vermeer’ at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (10 February-4 June 2023). Thank you Simone Sagi for organising a fabulous visit to the Riksmuseum to view Vermeer exhibition; and on to Delft (Vermeer’s birthplace) to find Vermeer in Delft; and to the Mauritshuis, The Hague (owner of Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and View of Delft) and a fabulous exhibition on Jacobus Vrel (published in The New European).
‘Vermeer’ Artists & Illustrators magazine, April 2023 issue (published March)
Finding Vermeer in Delft | The Arbuturian 26 February 2023
Jacobus Vrel: Searching for the father of Vermeer - The New European 13 April 2023
Best travel experience: a visit to Auvers sur-Oise, just outside Paris to visit the village where Vincent van Gogh spent the last two months of his life. The press trip was organised by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. A truly memorable visit - travelling with a great crowd of press journalists from Holland, France and England too. It related to three special 2023 exhibitions on van Gogh’s life and work at the Van Gogh Museum, to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.
Van Gogh in Auvers: His Final Months | The Arbuturian
There were many more wonderful exhibitions including favourites:
* Marina Abramovic at the Royal Academy, London, for The Arbuturian November 5, 2023
Marina Abramović at The Royal Academy | The Arbuturian
*Alberto Giacometti- Le Nez, at Institut Giacometti, Paris for The New European, December 13 2023
The secret history of a bloody nose: the horrific origins of Le Nez by Giacometti - The New European
And my favourite artwork? Ron Mueck’s sculpture ‘En Garde’ (Three Dogs)
A day in Paris... RON MUECK - by Rosalind Ormiston (substack.com)
Now for 2024: Happy New Year!