Amsterdam’s top 25 live gigs this Fall

When you are travelling it can be really fun to go to a concert of one of your favourite bands that happens to be where you are. Amsterdam has surprisingly few venues for major touring bands to play, but the good news is that the major ones are quite good and relatively easy to reach when you are staying in the city centre. This Fall some of the world’s leading artists are performing in the Dutch city so prepare yourselves. We have selected a hot-list of the 25 live gigs you should not miss when in town.
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A Dutch cultural extravaganza

An avalanche of over 27 top quality art exhibitions in ten of Holland’s best museums in four cities, within a period of 32 months (November 2008 to June 2011) is what the Dutch masterminded in order to take the European art-loving crowds by storm once again. The ongoing art explosion of world-class cultural offerings has a name: Holland Art Cities is a carefully planned project that coordinates dozens of museums, institutions, public and private organization in an effort to promote The Netherlands as Europe’s cultural hub.
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Copying Rembrandt

For the first time in history, Rembrandt’s complete oeuvre goes on show in the special exhibition hall at the Beurs van Berlage (Berlage Exhibition Centre) in Amsterdam. The exhibition, titled The Complete Rembrandt, Life-Size, shows all 317 paintings, 269 etchings and the most relevant of Rembrandt’s sketches and drawings in near-perfect reproductions that were made possible with the use of the latest digital photography and printing techniques. A number of Rembrandt’s damaged and mutilated paintings are also reconstructed for the exhibition, which runs through September 6.
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Van Gogh speaks

A landmark exhibition to celebrate the publication of the new international edition of the complete correspondence of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is to be presented at the Van Gogh Museum’s Rietveld building in Amsterdam from 9 October 2009 to 3 January 2010. In the exhibition Van Gogh's letters: The artist speaks, some 120 original letters will be exhibited alongside the works that Van Gogh was writing about.
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