Events Amsterdam

Outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Van Dongen, De Vlaminck, Derain and many other contemporaries of theirs will be seen in a magnificent display in the exhibition Matisse to Malevich - Pioneers of modern art from the Hermitage. For this exhibition about 75 paintings have been selected from the Hermitage St. Petersburg, which has one of the world's finest collections of French painting of the early twentieth century. Apart from the world-famous French masters, such equally celebrated Russian contemporaries as Malevich and Kandinsky will be represented.
Image: © Pablo Picasso, Absinthe Drinker, 1901, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2010

The Hermitage Amsterdam
Nieuwe Herengracht 14, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hours: Daily 10 am -5 pm / Closed on Queen’s Day (29 April 2006)
Admission: Adults € 7 / Children up to 16 free

http://www.hermitage.nl/

Rijksmuseum hosts an exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings showing the spectacular expansion of 17th-century Amsterdam. A number of maps from the Rijksmuseum's own collection charting the expansion agreed on in 1662 will also be on display. Central to the exhibition are six views by Gerrit Berckheyde depicting the Gouden Bocht (Golden Bend) on the Herengracht Canal which was the richest part of the new city.
Image: Gerrit Berckheyde De bocht van de Herengracht (1671-72)

Rijksmuseum
Jan Luijkenstraat 1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Opening hours: Every day from 9 am to 6 am / Fridays from 9 am 10 pm
Admission: Adults: € 10 / concession € 8

http://www.rijksmuseum.nl