I visited the Nieuwe Kerk’s exhibition ‘Black is Beautiful, Rubens to Dumas’. This is the first time I was permitt to see so many great masters artwork included black people at different ages. The 135 paintings, drawings and manuscripts from domestic and foreign collections are scenarized with grightness in this renovated church.

“Black is beautiful presents a remarkable oil study by Rubens, an intimate drawing and etching by Rembrandt, paintings by Jordaens, Mostaert, Breitner, Jan Sluijters, Karl Appel and Marlene Dumas, and beautifully illustrated manuscripts from the late Middle Ages such as the famous Van Maerlant manuscript.”

If the Van Gogh Museum and Rijsk Museum are place to visit, this exibition deserves it too as it is an unique occasion to see this concentration of black in art through ages.