On 20th March 2010, the Amsterdam Historical Museum (AHM) launches a presentation of one of the most extraordinary works of art of the twentieth century: The Hoerengracht. This gigantic piece by Edward  Kienholz (1927-1994) and Nancy Reddin Kienholz (b. 1943), which has been exhibited around the world, features as the central attraction until the summer of 2010 in a show examining the connection between art and the part of Amsterdam's old medieval centre known as the Wallen. This is the first appearance in Amsterdam of The Hoerengracht, which is inspired by the city's world-famous red-light district.

American artists, husband Edward Kienholz and wife Nancy Reddin Kienholz, worked in Berlin in the 1980s. It was there that they made this huge installation, based on extensive research in Amsterdam’s Wallen: a reinterpretation of Amsterdam’s famous Red Light District. The Hoerengracht functions as a composite street of the whole neighbourhood. Hoerengracht literally means Whores Canal, a pun on the genteel Herengracht.

Now have a look at www.ahm.nl/hoerengracht. Here you can find information about The Hoerengracht, announcements of events about the exhibition and conservator Annemarie de Wildt her blog.