The John Adams Institute
Welcoming the best and brightest of American thinking
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Yaël Eisenstat: Democracy’s Cyber Defendant
Polarization, Elections and AI
American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin
Poetics and Politics with Award-Winning Poet Terrance Hayes
The New Anthology
The New Anthology is a community-led, multi-year project that gives new voice to aspects of our shared Dutch-American history by connecting stories and perspectives that have often been overlooked or purposefully ignored. Visit the online collection to find out more!
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About The John Adams Institute
The John Adams Institute provides an independent podium for American culture in the Netherlands. For three decades, we have brought the best and the brightest of American thinking from the fields of literature, politics, history, and technology.
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American culture in the Netherlands
Exhibition Chad Bilyeu at the Grachenmuseum
The Grachtenmuseum in Amsterdam presents Chad in Amsterdam an exhibition by American writer, art director and photographer Chad Bilyeu. He came to Amsterdam 14 years ago and began to record his observations and adventures in a series of comic strips with increasingly new artists and comic cartoonists. They provide insight into the way newcomers see the city, but also hold up a mirror to Amsterdam residents themselves .On view from April 18 to June In 2020, Chad created a blog series about the same topic for the John Adams.
Richard Avedon exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam
This summer, Kunsthal Rotterdam is presenting a large-scale retrospective of the American photographer Richard Avedon. With over a hundred and thirty photographs, the exhibition Richard Avedon: Relationships sheds light on Avedon’s groundbreaking contribution to fashion photography as well as his distinctive photographic portraits. From June 1st to October 6th.