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PRESS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

 

Uitkrant Amsterdam 2016

Goed verstopte Musea

Mei, 2016

 

Canvas and Crumpets (by Chloehyman)

Greenbox Museum of Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia - Amsterdam

April 18, 2016

 

New York Times (Ben Hubbard)

Artist Nurtures a Creative Oasis in Conservative Saudi Arabia

April 15, 2016

 

Nachtbrakers (door Maan Meelker)

LEKKERGAAN: The Greenbox Museum of Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia

January 1, 2016.

 

Tarek Chemaly Beirut Blogspot

Aarnout Helb: Of Saudi contemporary art and Duchamp's fountain plumbling

November 4, 2015

 

Art Asia Pacific (by Chin-Chin Yap)

How the yellow cow found its green box

November 1, 2015

 

FD Persoonlijk (by Joan Veldkamp)

Hun journalistiek en wij

April 20, 2015

 

Al Qafilah (Arabic)

Embassy Saudi Contemporary Art in Holland

August, 2014

 

Saudi Gazette

Dutch Museum buys Saudi art.

May 28, 2014

 

The Art Newspaper

Private collectors are still the driving force

May 2014 (Saudi special)

 

Haarlems Dagblad, Gooi- en Eemlander, Leids Dagblad, Noord-Hollands Dagblad e.a.

Saoediër is wel kritisch

Groene Oase vol kunst in hartje Mokum

(image at at the top).

May 22, 2014

 

VPRO Radio Uit de avonden

greenbox museum

November 12, 2013

 

dnaindia.com

Thinking outside the (green) box

June 17, 2013

 

lifeinamsterdam.com

greenbox museum of contemporary art from saudi arabia

June 4, 2013

 

al.artemag.be

Greenbox Museum - moderne kunst uit Saoedi-Arabië in Amsterdam

May 29, 2013

 

al.artemag.be (english)

Greenbox Museum: modern art from saudi Arabia in Amsterdam

May 29, 2013

 

Radio 1, Opium talkshow

Amsterdams museum voor Saoedische kunst

May 18, 2013

 

Onlinegalerij.nl

Greenbox Museum: maak kennis met Saoedi-Arabië

May 13, 2013

 

CNN Inside the Middle-East

Tiny museum shows rise of Saudi Art

May 9, 2013

 

ISLAMIC ARTS MAGAZINE

Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia in Amsterdam

February 14, 2013

 

CULTUURBEWUST.NL

Greenbox Museum zet met Saoedi-Arabische kunst aan het denken

February 7, 2013

 

DER SPIEGEL ONLINE

Moderne Kunst aus Saudi-Arabien: Mohammed, wir

müssen reden!

January 24, 2013

 

AL-WATAN NEWSPAPER

Dutchman creates collection of Saudi artists (Arabic)

Translation with Google (English)

January 12, 2013

 

DANMARKS UAFHAENGIGE GLOBALE NYHEDSTJENESTE

Hollandsk galleri dedikeret til Saudisk kunst

January 11, 2013

 

Al-ARABYA NEWS

Dutch lawyer opens Saudi art gallery in Amsterdam

January 9, 2013

 

ARTASIAPACIFIC ALMANAC 2013

Saudi Arabia

January, 2013

 

RADIO NETHERLANDS WORLDWIDE ARABIC

Arabic: Living room-size museum of Saudi Art a Facebook hit

RADIO NETHERLANDS WORLDWIDE

Living room-size museum of Saudi Art a Facebook hit

December 26, 2012

 

NINISTAN

Musée dédiée a l'art contemporain d'Arabie Saoudite

December 8, 2012

 

NINISTAN

Abdulnasser Gharem at Greenbox Museum

December 7, 2012

 

LEIDEN UNIVERSITY LUCIS/MOS Lecture

A Research Update from Greenbox Museum of Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia

December 6, 201

 

 

NRC HANDELSBLAD

Het vliegtuigje ging echt te ver

December 4, 2012

 

HET PAROOL

Museumpje in centrum op facebook populairder dan Guggenheim

November 30, 2012

 

METRO

Verstopt museum in Amsterdam heeft meer 'likes' dan Guggenheim

November 30, 2012

 

THE ART NEWSPAPER

Two works at centre of UK censorship row end up in Amsterdam museum

November 29, 2012

 

ABOUT.COM AMSTERDAM TRAVEL

Greenbox Museum of Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia

November, 2012

 

JAHADSTUDIOS.NL

The Greenbox Museum

November, 2012

 

KHALEEJESQUE

Greenbox Museum: housing contemporary art form Saudi Arabia in the heart of Amsterdam.

November 11, 2012.

 

GULF LIFE (INFLIGHT) MAGAZINE

Click like if you love Saudi art

November 2012

 

ZEMZEM TIJDSCHRIFT

De gele koe in het Greenbox Museum

Jaargang 8, 2/2012

 

YOUR MIDDLE EAST

Q&A on contemporary Saudi Art

October 23, 2012

 

WASHINGTON POST

Saudi Artist hopes to stir conversation about democracy

October 8, 2012

 

DICHTBIJ NEDERLAND (RADIO 5)

Moderne kunst uit Saoedi-Arabië: the museum's founder interviewed on Dutch radio

September 6, 2012.

 

AMERICAN BEDU

Saudi/the Netherlands: A Piece of the Kingdom in the Land of Wooden Shoes and Tulips

August 13, 2012

 

SOCIALMEDIASUCCES.NL

The 15 largest facebooksites of the Netherlands

August 6, 2012

 

BROWNBOOK

Hidden treasures

August 5, 2012

 

REORIENT

Contemporary Saudi Art at the Greenbox Museum

June 24, 2012

 

ARTCLUB

The World's First Museum of Contemporary Saudi Art

June 22, 2012

 

MISTER MOTLEY

Greenbox Museum

June 13, 2012

 

KUNST.BLOG.NL

Nederlands Museum populairder dan Louvre

June 11, 2012.

 

LUCIS, LEIDEN UNIVERSITY

Greenbox Museum of Contemporary Art from Saudi Arabia

April 25, 2012

 

TROUW

Klein Museum groot op facebook

April 20, 2012

 

KUNSTBEELD

Greenbox Museum

April 15, 2012

 

AL ARABIYA NEWS

Greenbox Museum

March 16, 2012

 

ARAB NEWS

Greenbox Museum

March 13, 2012

 

HOLLAND DOC RADIO

De man die nooit in Mekka was

February 26, 2012

 

FRANKWATCHING

Het kleinste kunstmuseum in Amsterdam heeft 170.000 facebookfans.

Hoe kan dat?

November 23, 2011

 

JEDDAH Blog

Pure Green landscape of the mind

October 17, 2011

 

NEWSLINE Pakistan

Young at Art: Saudi Arabia's growing art scene

September 24, 2011

 

KUNST.BLOG.NL

Curator's Choice Greenbox Museum

June 1, 2011

 

DAFNEVANBAARLE

Saudiische moderne kunst... in Nederland

May 2011

 

CANVAS MAGAZINE

Museum feature: GREEN LIGHT AHEAD.

May-June Issue

 

NRC HANDELSBLAD

The Yellow Cow as a starting point for Saudi Art.

14 April 2011

 

NEW YORK TIMES

The Rembrandt of Riyadh

27 January 2011

 

BRITISH ARAB CENTRE

Book presentation Ahmed Mater

11 October 201

 

DER TAGESSPIEGEL

Edge of Arabia zeigt kunst aus Saudi-Arabien

29 June 2010

 

AKADEMIE DER KÜNSTE, BERLIN

Symposium on Saudi Art

Ahmed Mater with Aarnout Helb

12 June 2010

 

MUNA ABUSULAYMAN

The Saudi 'Oprah' linked Greenbox Museum

on her her facebook page.

1 June 2010

 

BLOOMBERG

Saudi artists set for boom

2 mei 2010

 

SAUDI CHANNEL 1

Interview Abdulnasser Gharem

23 January 2010

 

ARAB NEWS

Saudi Green in The Netherlands

15 December 2009

 

AHMED MATER

Response to yellow cow

December 2009

 

LOUVRE PARIS, AUDITORIUM

Ahmed Mater lecture (yellow cow)

December 2009

 

PAROOL

The real art of Saudi Arabia

28 April 2009

 

VOLKSKRANT

Saudi's merge modernity and tradition

1 April 2009

 

ART ASIA PACIFIC ALMANAC 2010

Saudi Arabia

"In Amsterdam the Greenbox Museum, the first museum dedicated solely to avant garde from Saudi Arabia, opened in March and exhibits the contemporary collection of Saudi expatriate [sic] Aarnout Helb"

 

THE ART NEWSPAPER

What's the difference between a soldier and an artist

Februari 2010

 

OASIS MAGAZINE

The Green Box Magazine, First Museum dedicated solely to Saudi art!

Spring 2009

 

ABDULNASSER GHAREM WEBSITE

Restored behaviour at Greenbox Museum

Spring 2009

Visit

The museum is open on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 13:00 to 17:00 hours or on any other day or evening by appointment made by e-mail or by phone:

E info@greenboxmuseum.com.

T 31(0)624282884

 

Entry fee is € 5 per person and € 40 for groups of 8-20. Students (everybody younger than 27 we consider as such) have free access. The location of the museum is on the fourth floor of an office building near Leidseplein at Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 12,

1017 RC Amsterdam.