Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art review

It's moved. Until summer 2008, temporary modern art exhibitions organised by the Stedelijk are on display on the second and third floors of the Post CS building near Centraal Station. But since the Stedelijk's rebuilding will take until at least 2009, it may stay put or there may be yet another transfer before the collection finally returns to Paulus Potterstraat. But wherever it finds itself, the museum has an amazing collection to draw from. Pre-war highlights include works by Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse and Chagall, plus a collection of paintings and drawings by Malevich. Post-1945 artists represented include De Kooning, Newman, Ryman, Judd, Stella, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Nauman, Middleton, Dibbets, Kiefer, Polke, Merz and Kounellis. Displays change regularly: some exhibitions are drawn from the collection, while others are made up from works loaned to the museum, but each tends to focus on a particular trend or the work of a specific artist.