Vermeer Retrospective Sells Out All Tickets Within Days of Opening

This article was first published by Artnews.

Every single available ticket to see the Rijksmuseum’s Johannes Vermeer retrospective is already gone, the Amsterdam institution said over the weekend, dashing the hopes of many far and wide who had hoped to see the unprecedented show.

“At the moment there are no more tickets available for Vermeer,” the Rijksmuseum said on Sunday, just two days after the show opened to the public. “To ensure that the public can have a pleasant visit to the exhibition, the number of available tickets is limited.”

But the museum hinted that it would find ways of opening the show to more visitors, writing that it was “working hard to ensure more people have the opportunity to see the exhibition.”

The Vermeer show has been hotly anticipated since it was first announced in 2021, when the Rijksmuseum declared the show the “first and last” retrospective for the artist. There’s good reason for such hyperbolic language, as there has never before been a more comprehensive Vermeer show mounted.

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