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Land of the free? (Wait List)
Four Talks on Freedom in collaboration with the KNAW
Who Owns the Future? Ruha Benjamin, Marietje Schaake & Robin Aïsha Pocornie
Tech, Imagination, and Inequity in the 21st Century
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About The John Adams Institute
The John Adams Institute provides an independent podium for American culture in the Netherlands. For three decades, we have brought the best and the brightest of American thinking from the fields of literature, politics, history, and technology.
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Kehinde Wiley’s solo exhibition at Museum Van Loon
Museum Van Loon announces Flourish: Kehinde Wiley x Museum Van Loon, the first solo exhibition of new portraits by renowned American artist Kehinde Wiley. His new body of work constitutes a visual response to the portrait collection and historic interiors of Museum Van Loon. Melted into the museum’s collection, Flourish addresses ties between Western portraiture, Dutch global colonial presence and contemporary art as social and cultural practice. On view from May 29-31 Aug 2025.
American Photography exhibition Rijksmuseum
From news and advertising photos to photographic art and family snaps, no country embraced photography as quickly after its invention as the United States. This exhibition of more than 200 works shines a light on the multifaceted history of photography in America. American Photography shows how the camera has been a witness to the hopes and dreams of an entire society, and to watershed moments in history, telling the story of a country in constant flux. On view until 9 June.