If you only visited Amsterdam as a student and retain little memory of the experience beyond those tasty space cakes and a lingering desire to live in a canal house, it’s time to return.
In 2024, a blockbuster Vermeer show at the national Rijksmuseum made the city’s renaissance an international conversation. Now, as a spectacular two-part exhibition of Anselm Kiefer’s billboard-size paintings arrives at both the Van Gogh Museum and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the city is booming (and blooming). The show runs through June 9, so if ever there were an excuse to organize a long weekend in the Low Countries, it’s now.
