Sunday, May 19, 2013

Oh Yeah, The Rijksmuseum Reopened: The Nightwatch Flash Mob

From March's "Money for the Most Exquisite Things: Bankers and Collecting from the Medici to the Rockefellers":
I've been meaning to put something together on Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo (yes, the O in GMO) and their possibly-greatest-in-private-hands collection of Old Masters but will have to leave this as a placeholder....
I still haven't gotten around to doing the Van Otterloo post but here's some Old Masters stuff.
It took ten years of screw-ups but the museum finally reopened and although most folks in Amsterdam seem to hate the building they like what's inside and most any Dutch kid knows Rembrandt's The Nightwatch:

So the flashmob went off to greater effect than it might have done, say, in Chicago where they have a very different kind of flash mob.
Here's the version uploaded by ING: