An update on the Vermeer of the century!
Folks, I was too quick to urge all of you to travel to Amsterdam and visit the amazing Vermeer retrospective at the Rijksmuseum there. Well, if you have not renewed your passports yet, you may want to take your time. It turns out that the Rijksmuseum issued about 450,000 tickets to the Vermeer, this world-class event that has been in planning for the past seven years, but all of them were bought out within the first four days of the show. The Vermeer, as of now, is completely sold out! Of course, the show had been well advertised for months, but no one expected this kind of surge in demand and for all these tickets to be snatched up so quickly. So now the Rijksmuseum is trying to find ways to either extend the exhibition or open the museum to more visitors during the period of the show. The curators are letting it be known that they may be able to issue more tickets by mid-March, but even those are expected to be grabbed within hours. Apparently scalping of tickets is not just an