However Amsterdam has a huge collection of museums, galleries, theatres and lots of charming buildings.
Foam is housed in a beautiful old canal mansion on Keizergracht, but unlike the "van Loon", on the opposite side of the canal, the inside of Foam is total modern with steel tubing and cobolt blue glass. The content of the gallery is very modern too, starting with Ari Marcopoulos who's work captures his interesting and colourful way of life, friends and family, plus the odd celebrity (e.g. Robert Mapplethorpe looking rather elegant):
Ari Marcopoulos (b. 1957) is an Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker, living and working in New York and California[1]. As a photographer, film artist and adventurist, Marcopoulos, who began his career in New York City assisting Andy Warhol, transplants himself into the intimate lives of people living on the edge. Artists, snowboarders, musicians and skateboarders have been both muses and commercial subject-matter throughout his quarter century career as a photographer.
