Circa 1630, this rare oil painting by Frans Hals is a quintessential portrait of the Dutch Golden Age. It is exemplary of Hals’ celebrated oeuvre and has been verified as an authentic work by the world’s foremost Hals scholars, including the former and current chief curators of the Frans Hals Museum.Calm, austere and decorous, the portrait depicts a man turning to meet the viewer's gaze. Wearing a dark cloak with a pleated white collar, the sitter holds a quill in his right hand – perhaps indica

Netherland-based artist Peter Gentenaar creates incredible, billowing paper sculptures that are suspended, mid-air in sprawling spaces like churches. As a printmaker, Genenaar created a custom beater that allows him to process the long-fibre paper pulp into the material used to create his artworks. As the wet pulp dries around the bamboo framework it begins to shrink and curl, "just as a leaf when it drys." The resulting sculptures which are massive, yet delicate resemble underwater organisms th