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39th year  -  N° 356                 Saturday, 21 December 2024         Antwerpen		
Is it My Body? Someone I Might Be?
Stedelijk Museum

Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

Related events:

  1. Friday 21st of March 1986 (x)'Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III' by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked with a knife by 33-year-old artist Gerard Jan van Bladeren
    The restoration by Daniel Goldreyer initially cost some $400.000, but was heavily attacked by critics who claimed that subtle nuances in the three monochrome sections had been lost and that Goldreyer had used house paints and a roller. According to critics, the painting had been destroyed twice: first during the attack, and again during the restoration. Although the painting is still in the Stedelijk Museum's collection, it is no longer on display. Van Bladeren was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and sentenced to eight months in prison.

  2. Friday 21st of November 1997 (x) — The painting 'Cathedra' by Artist Barnett Newman is attacked with a knife by 44-year-old artist Gerard Jan van Bladeren
    11 Years earlier van Bladeren also attacked Newman's 'Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV' with a knife in the same museum.

  3. Saturday 13th of September 2014 The Eyes Had it: AMVK in front of a painting by Richard Serra