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Rutteleaks

Het begon ermee dat Halbe Zijlstra op tv riep dat niemand in de kunst zijn leven zeker kon zijn. Toen kwam Mark Rutte met zijn stelling dat er per avond in Den Haag in 30 zalen 15 mensen op de eerste rij zitten. En toen [wp_eStore_fancy2:product_id:1:end]

Free: Festival diary Writers Unlimited 2012

They were great days, the four days we reported on Writers Unlimited (v/h Winternachten) in The Hague. We saw a new self-confident generation of writers from Africa, experienced debates and - in the foyer of The Hague's Theater a/h Spui - played for VJ during the salsa dancing class. Daniël Bertina and Wijbrand Schaap did their best to attend as many... 

Holland Festival: diary of the 2011 edition

On 28 February, Pierre Audi will present the programme of the 2012 Holland Festival at the City Theatre. As in 2010 and 2011, we will follow that festival closely with our online festival daily newspaper at www.dedodo.nl. That daily newspaper has now proven its right to exist, as more and more festivals want to collaborate with the Cultural Press Agency on this unique initiative. To the 'product-range'... 

We hebben ebooks in de aanbieding

Een website is leuk, maar vaak minder geschikt voor rustig lezen. En hoewel onze mobiele thema’s inmiddels goed lijken te werken, is  het vaak nog en heel geklik en gezoek voor je de boel een beetje vlot achter elkaar kunt lezen. Daar hebben we nu wat op gevonden: ebooks. Een handige manier om allerlei samenhangende artikelen te kunnen lezen: op… 

Cultural balderdash or snake pit Enschede?

It looked like it was going to be something. With a church of huge Lego blocks and a programme that seemed to matter. But alas, Grenswerk, the festival that was supposed to bring the region around Enschede together, is no more. After three years. And it won't stop until 2013, like most art institutions, but already in 2012. Too much had to change for that to happen. The municipality suggested... 

first reading of lost O'Neill piece

Connoisseurs know: often actors spend two months rehearsing a play with only one goal in mind: to recover the freshness and surprise of the 'first reading'. After all, at that first reading, actors hear the text for the first time from their colleagues, read the words aloud for the first time, and everything sounds new and unexpected.... 

Cultural Press Bureau opens Arts hotline

It happens regularly that you see or hear something, in the tram, on the train, on the road, on holiday. But also on the street, in your own home. And that you think: what is that? Chances are you are dealing with 'Art'. And that can have all kinds of side effects: pleasure, chills, confusion, sadness, or even indifference, and depression. Art can,... 

5-hour marathon Roman Tragedies favourite with spectators Toneelgroep Amsterdam

We were somewhat mildly ironic about it, but hats off, meanwhile, to Toneelgroep Amsterdam's PR department and the audience, who responded remarkably well to the 'choose the reprise' campaign the company launched a few weeks back. We have the hard numbers we feared we would never see. And they are credible. We quote the press release: From 2 to... 

B&G gets support from BMW

Om hoeveel BMW’s het qua tegenwaarde gaat, weten we niet, maar feit is dat het Duitse autoconcern van zoefauto’s een nieuwe stap heeft gezet, weg van het snellejongetjesstraatracerscircuit dat inmiddels toch al bevolkt wordt door Audi en VW. Hoewel. De nieuwe generatie die het bedrijf aan zich wil binden is even jong, maar dus aanzienlijk cultureler. Het zijn de jonge… 

Ebook sales give publishers knowledge they would rather not have

We already noticed it in the daily twitter stream: when it comes to book reviews on twitter, the 'low' genres (at least according to connoisseurs) dominate the charts: fantasy, diaries of disease sufferers, 'regional work', howto's and erotica. No news, you may say, but there is more to it.

Top or flop: audience picks repertoire first theatre company in the Netherlands

We got another press release, and wondered: top or flop? How does quirky artistry rhyme with audience-determined repertoire choice? Andne: do all those people who chose the winning piece also get a free-or at least discounted-ticket to the performance of their choice? Andne: who checks the results, as there is no notary. Enne:. 

Hollandse pot voor wereldschrijvers

Lief en best lekker, al gaf een aantal van de gasten aan minder gecharmeerd te zijn van de hutspot met jus die de Haagse Hapjes voor hen hadden klaargezet. De meeste gasten hadden liever wat meer kruiden gehad bij hun welkomstmaal.  Vanavond staat Afrika op het menu. De lokale peperboer zal wel een feestje hebben wegens omzetverhoging, vermoeden wij.

Henk Pröpper: 'Writers Unlimited has always opposed panting and short-term ambition.'

He is now a publisher, and the man who was director of the Dutch Foundation for Literature until last year will be quite happy with that. As director of the Bezige Bij, one of the country's largest publishing houses, he will surely never again have to submissively toast the sarcastic State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra. At least the relief was audible in Pröpper's... 

PEN Award voor Iraanse oprichtster ‘Stop Stenigen voor Altijd’-campagne #wu12

Ze woont inmiddels in Noorwegen, nadat ze haar vaderland Iran moest verlaten wegens eigen mening. Ze zat vijf dagen vast, en in de beruchte Evin-gevangenis in Teheran is dat een eeuwigheid. Nu is Asieh Amini vrij in een vreemd land, en krijgt ze van Oxfam-Novib de PEN-Award uitgereikt. Een mooie opening voor het Writers Unlimited Winternachtenfestival, dat met deze uitreiking… 

There it is: the final legislative amendment deciding the future of 16,500 FTEs and thousands of self-employed people

We do not have much to comment on Halbe Zijlstra's explanation. Other than that the state secretary of formerly culture breathes an almost legible sigh of relief now that he can almost close the 'arts' headache file. His "masterpiece", the amendment to the Specific Cultural Policy Act, is before the chamber and if it is approved (hammer piece), the state secretary does not really need to do anything more.

Woldhek receives Inktspot Prize 2011 for state portrait Henk Bleker

"A beautifully drawn portrait, sublimely expressing a mixture of cunning, intransigence and power-seeking, Implicitly and without text." So says the Inktspot Prize jury about the drawing Sigfried Woldhek made for the NRC of 30 March 2011. Pictured is Henk Bleker, former CDA party leader candidate and state secretary for former nature. Woldhek, who has been... 

The Broadway visitor: lily-white, woman, loyal and well above the Balkenende norm

These are data that somehow do not make the press here, because they are about America, which is not in the Netherlands. Still, it is interesting to take a closer look at the composition of the audience on Broadway. After all, that is where, in the wet dreams of VVD/PVV celebrities like Bart @deliefde and @halbezijlstra, the future of... 

Not two, but only one cultural major in 2010, and none in 2011

That was a bit of a shock for culture lovers in Utrecht and beyond. the dear youth theatre house Het Lab turned out to have an artistic director with an annual salary of 214,975 euros. A salary that made him equal to the dozens of air traffic controllers, medical specialists and broadcasting staff who all earn far more than the Balkenende norm (193,000 euros a year, including pension). But no. The ever amiable... 

Door Chinese groei verandert de kunstmarkt sneller en ingrijpender dan we beseffen

Ze maakten de betere Bordeaux-wijnen onbetaalbaar en in Zuidoost Azië worden dagelijks recordbedragen neergeteld voor westerse moderne en antieke kunst. Chinese verzamelaars en speculanten bepalen inmiddels wat telt en wat niet in de kunstwereld. Nieuwste ontwikkeling: ze ontdekken hun eigen kunstenaars. Inmiddels wordt voor een schilderij als ‘Adelaar staand op een dennenboom’ uit 1946 van de autodidact Qi Bashi meer… 

WWIK transitional regime until 1 July 2012: The grinding of De Kroms teeth echoes to the smallest municipality

The art sector's victory over government policy will last until 1 July 2012. Until then, a transitional scheme applies to artists who were eligible for WWIK benefits until 1 January 2012. This is because this highly successful scheme, which gives artists a chance to build a profitable professional practice at an amount of 70% of the welfare level, had been abolished by... 

We will follow the world's writers into their hotel rooms

Writers Unlimited The Dodo is coming back to life. On 19 January already. Then we plunge into the Hague writer's life. The four-day festival Writers Unlimited, formerly known as Winternachten, but thus changed its name because of the weather (not, but nice joke) will have a real dodo, but then again differently. We will LIVE BLOG. That means we'll be there.... 

Thunder or a minor storm in the Gouda Glasses? You may say

We received a letter on legs from Wim de Groot a while ago. Now we often get letters in paws, but here something seemed to be going on. Trouble of course because sorting it out takes time and money and that wasn't there for a while. (Look out for the donor campaign we are about to launch) But still. What's wrong with it? Wim de... 

Theatre photography in the spotlight at small Amsterdam gallery

Theaterfoto’s zijn een vak apart. Uit een toch al in scene gezet onderwerp kiest de beroepsfotograaf het pakkendste beeld. Er zijn mensen die er daarom op neerkijken, er zijn mensen die de theaterfotograaf juist daarom bewonderen. Wij zijn uiteraard meer geneigd tot het laatste. Maar het vak staat onder druk. Van smartphones, van afnemers die geen plek en geen geld… 

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