Embassy of the United States

NY 400 - The Island 2009
January 28, 2009 - February 28, 2010 Amsterdam - A digital-historical adventure about the relationship between New York and Amsterdam.

NY 400 - Hollanders on the Hudson
September 5 - November 29, 2009 Westfries Museum, Hoorn - Historic paintings of Dutch colonial New York by Len Tantillo on display.

Sally Mann - The Family and The Land
September 26, 2009 - January 10, 2010 Sally Mann, American photographer, is best known for her large black and white photographs, first of her young children, then of landscapes suggesting decay and death. Photo exhibition in the Hague Museum of Photography

NY 400 - Modern Life - Edward Hopper and his time
September 26, 2009 - January 17, 2010 Kunsthal, Rotterdam - Eight top works by Hopper together with over ninety master pieces from the collection of the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Thanksgiving Day Service, The Pieterskerk, Leiden
November 26 Each year, on Thanksgiving morning, there is a non-denominational service in the historic Pieterskerk in Leiden. For many who don’t know, the area surrounding the Pieterskerk is where the Pilgrims worked and lived for 11 years, from 1609 to 1620.

Jane Alison - The Sisters Antipodes - John Adams Institute Lecture
December 3, 2009 Jane Alison was born in 1961 in Canberra, Australia, and until she was eleven grew up in the Australian and U.S. foreign services. She went to public schools in Washington, D.C., and studied classics at Princeton and Brown universities and creative writing at Columbia.

Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914
September 16, 2010 – January 16, 2011 Laren: Singer Museum - Exhibition to explore the little-known phenomenon of American artists working in Holland.

Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals - John Adams Institute Lecture
January 14, 2010 Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005).