‘Picturing Excess: Jan Davidsz de Heem’: beauty, transience, and colonial displacement
Cameron Thomas reflects on the abundance and exploitation layered upon the canvases of Jan Davidz de Heem, in a current ...
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Mouly Surya on Indonesian Period Thriller About Dutch Colonization ‘This City Is a Battlefield' Closing Rotterdam: ‘It's a Shared History'
This year's closing film, Mouly Surya's "This City Is a Battlefield," takes place in Jakarta in 1946 as Nationalist leaders have declared independence but the city remains under Dutch control ...
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Manahahtáanung or New Amsterdam? Tackling 400 years of history
Lauren Comiteau visited Amsterdam Museum for a new exhibition that explores this little known part of Dutch colonial history. According to legend—and a letter sent by Peter Schagen back to his ...
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The Netherlands agrees to return more than 100 artifacts to Nigeria looted during colonial times
In 2023, two Dutch museums returned hundreds of cultural artifacts back to Indonesia and Sri Lanka taken, often by force, during the colonial era.
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Mouly Surya on Indonesian Period Thriller About Dutch Colonization ‘This City Is a Battlefield’ Closing Rotterdam: ‘It’s a Shared History’
It is quite an interesting choice for the largest film festival in the Netherlands to close with a film that explicitly denounces the violence of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia, but one can always ...