Van Abbe Museum

Interpassive Scepticism

Careful readers have probably noticed the high number of features that the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven has gained in the press over the past few months. Even though the museum of modern and contemporary art is often praised both nationally and internationally, it suffers from increasing criticism by the local authorities. On the one hand …

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Some thoughts on the metamodern museum

As a lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, I recently taught an undergraduate course on Modernism. In addition to a class discussion on the discourse surrounding the museum of modern art, the participating students also visited the Van Abbemuseum