Floris van der Pant schreef de scriptie “Ruiter op het Rokin: de totstandkoming van een precair portret” over het ruiterstandbeeld van Koningin Wilhelmina van zijn oudtante, Theresia van der Pant (1924-2013), d.d. 20 januari 2012. Op de homepage van de NKvB-site staat alleen de inleiding van de desbetreffende scriptie. De volledige tekst is voor leden van de NKvB toegankelijk via ledennieuws en mag niet verder verspreid worden. 
Suddenly, the press dares to criticise contemporary art. A number of coinciding events seem to have focussed a new, less reverential attitude towards the spin of the art world. Damien Hirst's retrospective at the Tate and Anish Kapoor's tower for the Olympics have borne the brunt of criticism in London. Not that these two do not invite harsh criticism in themselves, but last year they did not get it and now they do. The same strange thing happened in the USA, over Maurizio Cattelan's exhibition at the Guggenheim — last year a darling, this year a dud. Familiar artists with familiar styles; and these projects were years in the planning, so we could hardly have been shocked by them. I suspect they are picked on, now, as examples of something which once commanded timid respect, but with which we have lost patience. It is not Hirst and Kapoor, or Cattelan who have changed; it is we ourselves. We have not been disappointed; we have become disillusioned. But how? And why now? See for further details:
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/4683/full
source: Jerome Symons's mail to Schuilen in het Rijks, November 3, 2012.