Province investigates: 'Utrecht worth 1 billion more thanks to arts sector'

Art costs money. The current Rutte administration has hammered that into it: it's expensive, no one but a small club of insiders goes there, and in any case those are leftists or pseudo-leftists who can easily pay for it themselves. So much for the government's opinion. You can guess what the art world thinks: it does not agree and has been shouting about it for a few months, helped by all kinds of newspapers and broadcasters. But what is the actual situation?

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