At the Dutch island of Vlieland, farmers use this traditional, functional and very pretty design for the opening and closing of fences. Photo Pam

A Dutch catholic tradition that I celebrated myself: the first communion. Photo Isabella Roozendaal

Moving fashion shoot for online fashion store Ssense. Design Reed + Rader (Via Today and Tomorrow)

Semi-abstract images by Mirabelle Marden to be seen at Kimberley Brown Gallery in London, where Marden searches alongside painter Dana Schutz and sculptor Anthea Hamilton for the line between abstract and figurative representation. Exhibition Bendable Poseable (untill June 19)

For 5 years Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink pictured the seduction of international car girls. Book design Irma Boom

Designer Nicolas Cheng has designed a range of brooches made of nothing: just some bits of loofah, sponge and cotton. Nothingness is void, poetry, unpretentious modest, a hidden beauty not to catch. Exhibition Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, June 05 – July 03.

May 20, 2011 opens the first major museum exhibition to survey the highly productive relationship of painting to photography in the American 20th-century. The photograph’s role in modern art goes far beyond reproduction: the way the lens freezes, flattens and crops the world conditions all visual representations. The exhibition will pair paintings and photographs with an intrinsic visual relationship. The artist is a picture maker, whatever the means. Art L Georgia O’Keeffe. Photo R Alfred Stieglitz

My column for this weeks’ NRC magazine is about the beautiful pulp objects by Jo Meesters. Photo Lisa Klappe

This is weird and beautiful: click here to see patterns just made by tones. Art Meara O’Reilly Film Lisa Foti-Straus

Do not miss the retrospective of the world’s best book designer Irma Boom at the UVA, Oude Turfmarkt 129, Amsterdam, June 4 – Oktober 3. The catalogue is a miniscule book of more than 700 pages (thanks Nijhoff&Lee for this tip). Photo Anuschka Blommers /Niels Schumm