Everything to do with letters
Artists who don't want to make money from their work have a hobby. At a get-together, I spoke to Marit, a visual artist. At one point, she said: 'I don't need to get rich from my work, as long as I can make some money from it'. I hear that phrase very often. I've always shouted it myself. So crazy is...
Voor de meeste kunstenaars is het een ideaal. Vertegenwoordigd worden door een galerie. Schrijvers hebben hun zinnen gezet op een contract bij een uitgeverij. Muzikanten kijken verlekkerd naar labels en theatermakers staan in de rij voor een impresariaat. Makers hebben een haat-liefde verhouding met zulke bemiddelaars. Want hoewel de gemiddelde creatieve professional wel een teen zou willen missen in ruil…
So it really does exist. A high road through the mountains of Romania. Completed in 1974. Viewed by my father in the same year, while his 'guide' told him not to walk too close to the edge, because he would not be the first to crash over the edge. After which his 'guide', the secret agent that every western journalist...
The Nobel Prize for literature and the Netherlands, it is an unhappy marriage. Not only is Nooteboom, after Mulisch, passed over time and again, on television it is also poor. Yes, on DWDD, people in their fifties trot out to sing the praises of Bob Dylan, but that's it. Of course, Dylan did not become the new laureate, nor the Haruki Murakami, also popular in our country, but the French writer Patrick Modiano.
This post should have been a video. I was planning to go into my garden with the ipad, to tell you, in the company of my dog Rufus, how important video is in contemporary art communication. And not a good, beautifully shot and rap edited video, but wonky, home-made, not very to-the-point video. Which is very personal though....
Amy Tan – te gast bij het John Adams Institute in Amsterdam – introduceerde deze week zelf haar nieuwe boek bij het Nederlandse publiek: Vallei van verwondering. Ze hield in de Amstelkerk een zeer persoonlijke lezing over het moeilijke leven van haar moeder en grootmoeder in het antieke China van voor de grote roerganger Mao. Het decor: begin twintigste eeuw…
Literature is starting to conquer its place at Oerol, which makes sense because poetry and prose are everywhere. The landscape inspires writers and poets to write beautiful texts and at the same time, through literature, visitors take in the environment in a poetic way. What forms of literature can you encounter on Terschelling?
Interesting things are happening these days. The digital revolution is beginning to have traces of a real revolution. No one has yet set themselves on fire, as in Tunisia, but more and more people are taking to the virtual streets to overthrow the old powers: after the record companies, which let themselves be overwhelmed by people downloading, and the newspapers, which let themselves be overwhelmed by people searching freely for information, it now seems to be the turn of book publishers.
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