Metamorphosis
‘Manipulation is timeless’
We asked seven curators and directors to look ahead. Which themes and trends will shape the conversation in the coming years? And which artists are already showing where things are headed? Frits Scholten is curator of sculpture at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This spring, the exhibition Metamorphoses, which he curated, is on view there. The exhibition was realised in collaboration with the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Sleeping Hermaphroditus, 2nd century (figure), 1620 (mattress), marble, 169 x 89 cm, Musée du Louvre, Parijs, now on view at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
This is an article from See All This #41, spring 2026.
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