De cultuurvloggers van Shot of Culture maakten deze superleuke video over Waterwijs, de tentoonstelling die ik als gastcurator heb samengesteld voor het buitenmuseum van het Zuiderzeemuseum.

Al in 2010 begon de gemeente Den Bosch met nadenken over vervanging van het theater aan het plein De Parade. Nu is het er, in een mix van moderne en historische stijlen en materialen.

In de jaren tachtig en negentig van de vorige eeuw werden er jaarlijks 200 miljoen kerstkaarten in Nederland verstuurd. Dit waren de gloriejaren van de kersttraditie. Een fenomeen dat de Britse architecte Alison Smithson ook begeesterde.

Aan de fraaie Apollolaan in Amsterdam-Zuid heeft de afwerende J.P. Morganbank van Wim Quist plaatsgemaakt voor een nieuw kantoorgebouw ontworpen door OMA.

It is climate change that is sucking the Colorado River dry, or the fact that too many people have too many straws in its water? Actually it’s both, we learned during our yearly Harvard GSD Loeb Fellowship study trip that went to Denver, Colorado this year. So yes this is a big story. I touched on some of the pertinent issues in this article for the Loeb Fellowship website (pdf and images below).

This fourth episode of the Future 400 podcast is all about theater and dance from and in the Netherlands and the US. Battery Dance, New York City’s longest running public dance festival, is hosting the Dutch-Turkish choreographer Rutkay Özpinar as part of the Future 400 exchange. And the new play by Dutch theater director Ira Kip, ‘Kings… Come Home’, is a reflection on the impact of being uprooted.

Design your look, design your life. Rambler Studios is a creative platform for raw talent. It offers young people a safe space where they can discover what they’re good at and find a sense of belonging – and maybe a career in street fashion. That is what this third episode of my Future 400 podcast is about.

This second episode of my Future 400 podcast looks at work by Dutch and American photographers who are part of the annual international photo festival Photoville in Lower Manhattan. “Even though they are an Atlantic apart, there is a shared sensibility here.”

This is the first episode of Future 400, a four-part podcast series from the Dutch Consulate in New York and made and presented by me, Tracy Metz. We start by looking at New York before it was New York, hearing the voices of the people who already lived there: the Lenape.