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Vol. 29, No. 4 “De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius” Dec. 2013 Events of interest If you’ve visited Amsterdam, 6:30 and 8:45 with a short inter- you’ve probably been to the mission between parts. There will be December 19, 2013. You are Rijksmuseum, one of the world’s one admission charge to see both invited to an illustrated lecture and preeminent art museums — home to partsbut they must be viewed workshop at the Museum of the masterpieces by Rembrandt and consecutively. The Film Forum is at City of New York, exploring the Vermeer — itself a vast, magni- 209 West Houston Street (West of historical importance of Dutch ficent structure, built in 1895 by 6th Ave.). For tickets go to www. childhood activities in the 17th architect Pierre Cuypers. The filmforum.org. century. Dr. Donna R. Barnes and renovation of the museum (it *** Peter G. Rose, co-authors of reopened this past April) went on Childhood Pleasures: Dutch Child- for 10 long, expensive years, so it is Until January 19, 2014. The Frick ren in the Seventeenth Century, will fitting that a documentary on this Collection is the final American discuss the similarities and differ- torturous (and often, inadvertently venue of a global tour of paintings ences in Dutch children’s lives in hilarious) process should turn into from the Royal Picture Gallery Holland and in New Netherland not one but two feature-length Mauritshuis in The Hague, the during the 1600s. They will use art movies: Spanish architects Antonio Netherlands. While the prestigious and food as an enjoyable and Cruz and Antonio Ortiz have Dutch museum undergoes an effective means for engaging designed an ingenious new extensive two-year renovation, it is today’s students in understanding entryway, but the Dutch Cyclists lending masterpieces that have not the past. Union won’t tolerate reduced access traveled in nearly thirty years. At This lecture is sponsored by the for the 13,000 bicyclists who ride the Frick, a selection of fifteen New Netherland Institute. Light through the passageway daily. The paintings includes the beloved Girl refreshments will be served. The museum’s magisterial director, with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665) by lecture is free but reservations are Ronald de Leeuw’s, and his Johannes Vermeer and Carel required. The first 20 teachers to successor, the younger, scrappier Fabritius’s exquisite Goldfinch RSVP will receive the featured Wim Pijbes’, battle with curators, (1654). The exhibition continues book: Childhood Pleasures. For politicians, designers, city the Frick’s tradition of presenting details: www.mcny.org. bureaucrats, and the public as the masterpieces from acclaimed museums not easily accessible to *** price of construction soars to $500 million. It’s a messy, complicated the New York public. December 18, 2013–January 1, story that New Yorkers will relate Girl with a Pearl Earring is the 2014. NYC’s Film Forum presents a to, but fortunately, one with a sole work on view in the Oval 15-day run of the world theatrical glorious ending. Room, with the other paintings premiere of “The New Rijksmuseum” Each day the two parts will be shown together in the East Gallery. directed by Oeke Hoogendijk— in shown twice at: 1:00 and 3:15; and To accompany the exhibition, three two parts. works by Vermeer in the permanent New Netherland Institute, Box 2536, Empire State Plaza Station, Albany, NY 12220 Voice: 518–486–4815 | Fax: 518–473–0472 [email protected] | www.newnetherlandinstitute.org De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 2 collection, Officer and Laughing shares and large shareholders made sailors, and settlers drew on kin and Girl (c. 1657), Girl Interrupted at risky speculations. social relationships to function Her Music (c.1658–59), and The story of the seventeenth within an Atlantic economy and the Mistress and Maid (c.1666–67), are century is and remains a miracle. A nascent colony of New Netherland. grouped together in the West hodgepodge of provinces revolted In the greater Hudson Valley, Gallery, where they can be viewed against the Spanish king and then, Dutch newcomers, Native along with complementary Frick in a series of ups and downs, built a American residents, and enslaved Collection paintings by the new state that developed into an Africans wove a series of intimate represented artists. experiment unlike anything the networks that reached from the Timed tickets are required to world had ever seen before. A West India Company slave house view this exhibition. For more society emerged that was ruled by on Manhattan, to the Haudeno- information: www.frick.org. its citizens, a society of saunee longhouses along the *** unprecedented freedoms and Mohawk River, to the inns and myriad religions, ships that sailed alleys of maritime Amsterdam. June 5–7, 2014. International the world over and trading posts Using vivid stories culled from Interdisciplinary Conference of the from Indonesia to Brazil. Scientists Dutch-language archives, Romney Historians of Netherlandic Art and unravelled the mysteries of nature brings to the fore the essential role the American Association for and painters presented a new vision of women in forming and securing Netherlandic Studies to be held in of reality. these relationships, and she reveals Boston. Register by December 15 So how should we regard such a how a dense web of these intimate for a discounted fee. For more miracle? This book sees the Dutch networks created imperial structures details: www.netherlandicstudies. seventeenth century, the Golden from the ground up. These struc- org. Age, as a gateway to today’s times, tures were equally dependent on a period in which the Netherlands, male and female labor and rested on News and Holland and Amsterdam in small- and large-scale economic particular, became a laboratory that exchanges between people from all The Consulate of the Kingdom of the world used for experimental backgrounds. This work pioneers a the Netherlands in New York has research on global- ization, new understanding of the develop- launched a website, featuring the migration, tolerance, consumerism, ment of early modern empire as wide range of Dutch cultural investment and media hypes, and arising out of personal ties. activities in the United States. Go many other modern trends. Available in April 2014 from to: www.dutchcultureusa.com. Order at: www.walburgpers.nl. UNC Press. $45 | isbn 978.1.4696. €29.95 | isbn 978.90.5730.890.1 1425.0 Publications *** *** The Dutch Golden Age: Gateway to New Netherland Connections: A Beautiful and Fruitful Place: our Modern World by Hans Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties Selected Rensselaerswijck Seminar Goedkoop and Kees Zandvliet. The in Seventeenth-Century America by Papers, volume 3, edited by Netherlands in the Golden Age was Susanah Shaw Romney. Susanah Margriet Lacy, offers a selection of almost unrecognizable compared Shaw Romney locates the papers by leading modern scholars with today, and yet, in some ways, foundations of the early modern presented at the annual Rensselaers- it was not. Refugees sought a safe Dutch empire in interpersonal wijck Seminars from 1998 to 2007. haven there, migrants did the heavy transactions among women and Like the papers published in the work and youngsters created a men. As West India Company ships first two volumes of this series, they youth culture. Consumers wanted began sailing westward in the early cover a broad range of topics the latest fashions, investors bought seventeenth century, soldiers, relating to the distinctive history De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 3 and legacy of the in today’s Brooklyn. Locations of participation by Native American seventeenth-century Dutch colony his homes — one on the southern women and the growing importance of New Netherland. Collected tip of New Amsterdam and the one of the deerskin trade in this region. together, these papers provide an in Brooklyn — have been In addition, the appendix contains indispensable source for those identified. The story concludes with individual profiles of forty Esopus interested in the European develop- the untimely deaths, in 1655, of and Wappinger Indians appearing ment of American culture and Pietro and his wife, Judith Jans in the Ulster County account book. society. 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This spring underwritten for 2014–2018 by a 1635, on the tip of Manhattan 2013 offering of Syracuse generous NNI member and shall be Island, then known as New Amster- University Press is the full, known as the Clague and Carol Van dam. The book ties together, in annotated translation of a recently Slyke Prize. narrative form, legal documents discovered Dutch account book A committee of scholars will translated from the early Dutch by recording trade with Native consider entries in the fields of the New Netherland Project, and Americans in Ulster County, New history, archaeology, literature, from documents in the Brooklyn York, from 1712 to1732.