The frenzied clamor for tickets has probably only been matched recently by the announcement of Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour-except, in this case, the gilded megastar in question is an unassuming 17th-century genre painter and not-very-successful art dealer from the sleepy Dutch city of Delft. Visitors have flown in from all four corners of the globe to witness it, seeking what is arguably spring 2023’s most coveted accessory: a yellow entry wristband. Six weeks have passed since the opening of the museum’s blockbuster Vermeer show-billed as a “once in a lifetime” event, the exhibition features the largest number of the artist’s works ever assembled, and the largest ever likely to be again-and the feverish interest surrounding it shows no sign of abating.īy the exhibition’s second day in February, all 450,000 entry slots had sold out, meaning tickets are now about as precious a commodity as a flower bulb at the height of tulip mania. On an early spring afternoon outside the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s mecca of Dutch Golden Age painting, queues are stretching all the way up to the adjacent park square.
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