{"id":7602,"date":"2025-11-04T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2025-11-12T11:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T10:06:22","slug":"artist-tim-cantor-on-gallery-in-dam-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/nieuws\/buurtportret\/kunstenaar-tim-cantor-over-galerie-in-de-damstraatjes\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Tim Cantor on gallery in Dam streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On a busy street in the centre of Amsterdam, artist Tim Cantor runs his gallery. Not a typical location for contemporary art, but that's exactly why it suits him. \"It is not a typical gallery neighbourhood,\" he says. \"And that's exactly what I like about it.\"<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>A chance photo, years ago<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Eleven years ago, Tim was walking through Amsterdam with his wife Amy. \"It started raining while the sun was shining, that special light you sometimes have here,\" he says.<\/p>\n<p>He points to a photo he took then. \"That picture I took right across this street. One of my favourite photos of Amy, taken years before we knew this was going to be our place.\"<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A hidden gallery<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Tim Cantor's gallery is not on a typical 'art street'. \"We were unknown here,\" he explains. \"You can feel it when people come in: they hesitate for a moment, look around, wonder what this is. And I love that.\"<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Surrounded by art history<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The place breathes past. \"Rembrandt is a hundred metres that way, and the Waag is there. We are literally among history. And I feel that. It's in the air here.\"<\/p>\n<p>He smiles. \"This is a dream come true. I hope I get to stay here forever.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In een drukke straat in het centrum van Amsterdam, runt kunstenaar Tim Cantor zijn galerie. Geen doorsnee locatie voor hedendaagse kunst, maar precies daarom past het bij hem. \u201cHet is geen typische galeriewijk,\u201d zegt hij. \u201cEn dat vind ik juist mooi.\u201d Een toevallige foto, jaren geleden Elf jaar geleden liep Tim met zijn vrouw Amy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[78],"waar-nieuwsbericht-tonen":[36],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buurtportret","tag-tip-van-de-redactie","waar-nieuwsbericht-tonen-home-eerste-blok"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7641,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions\/7641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"waar-nieuwsbericht-tonen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nieuwmarktbuurt.amsterdam\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/waar-nieuwsbericht-tonen?post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}