This thesis explores the discourse around the present day woman art patron in the Netherlands. With patronage becoming increasingly important for the art and culture sector and the lack of research regarding present day women patrons in the Netherlands, a discourse analysis was performed. Incorporating the results from the discourse analysis performed on the case…

This case study illustrates how identities can be conceived as knowledge commons and how they can develop and be mobilized in situations of public contestation. The chapter uses the case of an art exhibition project carried out during 2018 in Brazil that portrayed a large number of queer- and LGBT- related visual artworks from Latin…

In 1654 verschijnt voor het eerst een Nederlandstalige gedrukte poëziebundel van de hand van een vrouw waarin religieuze onderwerpen níét de boventoon voeren. Dat is echter niet de enige reden waarom de bundel interesse wekt. De Dordtse Maria Margaretha van Akerlaecken (1605-na 1662) verkeerde financieel in zwaar weer en zocht met Den Cleefschen Pegasus steun…