The light in the photos of David Goldblatt is harsh, the colours washed out, because that's what the light and the colours are in the deserts of South Africa where most of the photos were taken.
The Gilbert and George retrospective at Tate Modern fills an entire floor, including the concourse between two galleries and the espresso bar. That's a lot of Gilbert and George. Too much, if you ask me.
There are some spectacular photos at the exhibition "Spectacular City. Photographing the Future" at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, but as a showcase of the city or urban photography it falls short.
The Musée du Quai Branly is BIG and like the Louvre and the Musée d'Orsay it is probably best to visit it twice rather than trying to see everything on one visit. After Africa and Oceania I was too saturated to take in much of Asia and the Americas.
With over 300 lithographs, posters, paintings, gouaches and drawings the exhibition Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris at Night at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam is not to be missed.
The Bettina Rheims retrospective at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam is pretty standard fare in so far as photography exhibitions go. Photographs that were previously published in magazines or books are printed at monumental size as if to emphasize that they deserve to be exhibited in a museum or gallery.
Perhaps one of the most appropriate works in the exhibition "Universal Experience. Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye" is a photo from Thomas Struth's museum photographs. It works as a mirror, because yes, that's you and me.
A rich and fascinating exhibition. As Vincent van Gogh wrote in a letter to his brother: "It is difficult to know yourself, but it isn't easy to paint yourself either".