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Even Lucebert no longer impresses

YXIE has been shot down. It may not be big national news, but it is yet another of those many glaring examples that show how bleak the wind is blowing through the cultural landscape.

Impression of the proposed YXIE cultural centre

YXIE, the word comes from the mind of poet-painter Lucebert, one of the artists of the COBRA movement. It was also to become the name of a new centru...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

YXIE has been shot down. It may not be big national news, but it is yet another of those many glaring examples that show how bleak the wind is blowing through the cultural landscape.

Impression of the proposed YXIE cultural centre

YXIE, the word comes from the mind of poet-painter Lucebert, one of the artists of the COBRA movement. It was also to become the name of a new centru...

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