Had reason to go to Utrecht yesterday, and some spare time while there. So I looked up what was on offer at the Utrecht musea. Turned out they had a good’un: Double Act. Billed as “Masterpieces in paint and video
How do artists of today and yesterday represent human emotion? In Double Act, contemporary video art and seventeenth-century paintings rub shoulders in an exhibition that investigates what it means to be human.” Double Act sets painting and sculpture from the museum’s permanent collection side by side with video work of contemporary artists. Sometimes this partnerings comes across as forced, this time I really enjoyed it. The Bill Viola – one that has a man disappearing in fire on one side and a man disappearing in water on the other – alone is worth going and sitting and seeing. Moving … in all senses of the word.

Second time around I took pics: