Your guide to the arts in Amsterdam: exhibitions, plays and musicals, and concerts and gigs. Plus, discover what’s on at galleries, museums and cinemas across the city.
We hope this is the future for all festivals. People with reduced mobility will know that attending a festival can often be more hassle than it’s worth. First, there’s trying to get a wheelchair or another k...
Three cheers for lazy luxury. We’ve all gotten so used to watching films at home now that a kind of appetite for comfort has set in, and uncomfortable cinema chairs just won’t do anymore. Watching a good fil...
See things you didn’t even know you wanted to see. Amsterdam is full of famous museums that we’ve all visited at one time or another, like the Rijksmuseum, and they’re fantastic places. However, if you...
Phew. What a year for cinema. The Oscars, like everything else, were drastically different this year in a low-key, socially distanced ceremony at L.A.’s Union Station railway terminus. Interestingly for the first time i...
It was re-discovered in 2018. The Cold Store was built in the 1930s to help the city better regulate food distribution to its citizens, and in 1986, when artist Keith Haring was spending time in Amsterdam he decorated t...
That’ll keep us entertained… Just when you were beginning to count twiddling your thumbs as a hobby, more than 1.4 million books have become available online, and it couldn’t be more perfectly timed. N...
Your nightly entertainment, sorted. It’s times like these that we can really appreciate true crime documentaries. From digesting the information to becoming a fully-fledged at-home detective, there’s nothing...
Relax this Valentine’s Day with these romantic flicks. We all need a good sob from time to time. The mushy, soppy part of us is crying out for some catharsis and these films will definitely help you satiate the ho...
The Nordic Noir sub-genre has spread like wildfire. Nordic Noir has been a literary sub-genre since the 1990s but we hadn’t seen many popular TV adaptations of these novels until recently. Films like The Girl With...
The city has inspired an abundance of brilliant books. Amsterdam means something different to each individual person. The city has been many things in its past, from the city was first recognised in 1275 and known as Am...