Adrian Searle’s best art shows of 2023
5. Vermeer
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Johannes Vermeer attracted over half a million visitors to the Rijkmuseum between February and June this year. Not bad for an artist who only produced about 37 known paintings over a 20-year period between 1654 and 1674. An exhibition of quiet intimacies and domestic mysteries, beautifully installed and spread over 10 rooms, 28 of these mostly small, interior scenes and occasional street views were presented in this stupefying exhibition, the largest ever of the artist’s work.
