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That's why Iris Hannema is the best travel writer in the Netherlands: 'Anyone who has not made a good fool of himself on a trip has not really been somewhere.'

by Harri Theirlynck
20 April 201829 March 2022
11 min read
For members only, LITERARY, MEDIA

'Iris Hannema writes like a guy,' I wrote a few years ago in a review of her The Bittersweet Paradise (2016). You wouldn't get away with that now. Actually, I meant to say: Iris Hannema writes solid, image-rich, independent ánd critical texts that you rarely come across in female as well as male travel journalists. Why that is, I will tell you later. Get lost' Typical...

Culture Press Podcast on Theatreflix: The name is ambitious, but it could be something wonderful.

by Wijbrand Schaap
20 April 201814 May 2018
1 min read
HERITAGE, MEDIA, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Wijbrand Schaap speaks in the kitchen of The Cooperative (where it is remarkably busy), with Tony Minnema and Emile Ripke. They are the initiators and the names behind Theatreflix, a website on which, like Netflix with TV shows, theatre shows can be seen. For now, they have a base from their own work, as Tony Minnema himself has a fairly thriving business in...

Evolution and revolution in Westworld season 2. Preview (without spoilers but with #metoo)

by Annika Hoogeveen
15 April 201830 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MEDIA, TELEVISION

The premiere of the second season of Westworld takes place next week. I got to watch in advance. In case it doesn't ring a bell; Westworld is currently HBO's most popular series after Game of Thrones. Short synopsis: The show is set in the fictional Westworld: a technological Western theme park where the population consists entirely of synthetic androids, which are also...

Theatre from the sofa: from the South Bank of the Thames to Broadway in one evening.

by Fleur Jansen
12 April 201814 September 2018
6 min read
INTERNET, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, THEATER

For many a theatre lover, watching from the bench will be swearing in church. The atmosphere in the theatre and direct contact is missing. Totally true, and yet the advantages of sitting comfortably, watching when you want, subtitles and the on-demand W.C. break are also worth something. While enjoying a fireside chat, you're not looking at the back of anyone's head....

Really Happened is No Excuse, or: How playwright Sadettin Kırmızıyüz gets passed left and right by De Luizenmoeder

by Harri Theirlynck
13 March 201810 July 2019
7 min read
PODIUM ART, TELEVISION, THEATER

I attended the try-out of Metropolis #1 at The Hague's Theater aan het Spui and a week later - because I couldn't believe my eyes the first time - I also went to the premiere. Rarely did I see something so blood-curdlingly exciting on stage. But unfortunately for the wrong reasons. A lot of a-musical notions Metropolis is the...

Addicted to 'real' books? You're selling yourself short. Put your e-reader next to your omelette and Let Three Million Books Bloom

by Harri Theirlynck
15 February 20181 March 2018
8 min read
INTERNET, LITERARY, MEDIA

Feet in the warm sand, Caipirinha with parasol, murmuring sea in the background and you are lying on a deckchair with 600 books. All I'm saying is: you are seriously selling yourself short without an e-reader. And the benefits are much bigger than just having to lug around less on holiday, which I'm going to explain below. Downloading in Luang Prabang I now read...

There will be a hotline for sexual violence and harassment in the arts. Question remains as to who will... er... staff it.

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 January 2018
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM, MEDIA, PODIUM ART, TELEVISION

Good news! The hashtag #metoo has finally led to action. There will be a hotline. The press release came today. 'The performing arts, film and television sectors have joined forces to launch an independent and umbrella hotline for sexual harassment.' This is more unique than you might think. In the performing arts, and certainly in the film and television sector, the situation is disastrous with the...

2018 in the arts: the year we finally choose our bubble and let the masses be the masses.

by Wijbrand Schaap
1 January 2018
4 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL, MEDIA, PODIUM ART

We are going to live smaller. It is not only in the popularity of the TinyHouse movement that young people and seniors can shake hands. We want to de-clutter, but we also want to have less to do with the big bad outside world. This applies to older people, but certainly to those in their twenties. This movement has been going on in the arts for a while. Small ...

Number of overnight stays and good luck city branding as highlights for the Capital of Culture. Goodbye AARHUS2017, hello LEEUWARDEN2018. And: VALLETTA2018, may I have my potato back?

by Inger Stokkink
21 December 201730 March 2022
6 min read
Aarhus 2017, ACTUAL, For members only, HERITAGE, MEDIA, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS

An ancient melody floats, crackles and drones through the town hall of Aarhus, Denmark. The city is close to being European Capital of Culture. That is why we hear the same song at the handover ceremony as when it was launched on 21 January. Then Aarhus celebrated the start of Aarhus, European Capital of Culture and 'Jeg drømte mig en drøm i nat' thundered through the Aarhus streets....

IDFA 2017: digital pioneer Jonathan Harris switches to analogue

by Jaïr Tchong
19 November 201729 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, FILM, INTERNET, PODCAST

With a 500-million-year-old pebble, Jonathan Harris began his lecture. IDFA presents the first international retrospective of this artist. As IDFA's chief guest, Harris gave the 'Master Talk' on Friday, about his life and work. His remarkably analogue vision was also the common thread during Sunday's well-attended DocLab conference. Fundamentally analogue Harris, who once started out in computer science...

This is what makes The Dead Society such a successful podcast: noise.

by Wijbrand Schaap
28 October 201730 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MEDIA, PODCAST

I treated myself to one of those noise-cancelling headphones. The thing produces anti-noise to filter out highway, refrigerator and air conditioning from my daily life. So that I can listen to podcasts better. Podcasts like The Dead Society's. In which I am reminded again how important background noise from highways, air conditioners and rustling trees is. Radio journalist Carine van Santen...

Public broadcasting is salvageable. (Why football should go to commercial)

by Erwin Gaur
29 September 201730 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MEDIA

Our public broadcasting system is unique in the world. Unfortunately, it is not something to be particularly proud of. The system and the thinking behind it are virtually incomprehensible. Or, as NTR director Paul Römer put it less diplomatically in August: we have 'a backward system that cannot be explained to anyone (anymore)'. It was a sideline in his interview with...

Beyond the breasts? Recap Game of Thrones 7 episode 1 'Dragonstone' (Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers! Spoilers!)

by Hannah Roelofs
18 July 201730 March 2022
8 min read
For members only, TELEVISION

If you're reading this, I assume you know what Game of Thrones is. Who Daenerys Targaryen is, and Jaime Lannister and Sansa Stark. Ramsay Bolton? We are never going to talk about that again. Nor am I going to explain that it is one of the most successful TV series of all time, based on the book series 'A Song of...

Just a Guest is justified summer hit: listening always makes people interesting

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 July 201726 September 2017
4 min read
Boulevard, PREMIUM, SPECIALS, TELEVISION, THEATER

I held my heart. Patrick Nederkoorn and Oscar Kocken had been tempted by television to bring their brilliant gem 'Zomaargasten' over to the living room. NPO3 still. The channel targeting millennials. I had visions of channel managers, dramaturgs, audience specialists and gussied-up boys and girls well over forty that these two little artists would...

Why it is beyond stupid of the NPO to move Radio Kunststof

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 June 201730 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MEDIA, PREMIUM

Radio Kunststof is one of the most successful early-evening programmes on our national disaster channel Radio 1. That success is partly due to its great formula: a long conversation with a more or less well-known figure from the arts and media corner. However, much more important reason for that success is the broadcast time. Between seven and eight in the evening, very...

Forbidden Music Regained: web archive of persecuted composers

by Thea Derks
23 June 201730 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MEDIA, MUSIC

On Wednesday 20 June, Kajsa Ollongren launched the website Forbidden Music Regained at the Uilenburgersjoel in Amsterdam. The capital's deputy mayor and alderman for culture quoted astronaut Neil Armstrong, calling the project 'a giant step for mankind'. She continued, "The website is also important for the city of Amsterdam, because we cannot and must not forget what happened in our city seventy years ago.

Culture Press needs real members. Here's why you want to join

by Wijbrand Schaap
1 June 201729 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL, DANS, FILM, INTERNET, LITERARY, MEDIA, MUSIC, OPERA, PERSONAL, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Culture Press is an indispensable addition to the cultural news in your newspaper, on the internet or on TV. Independent, quirky, rebellious and above all: useful. After all, there is already enough nonsense about art. You'll understand that we don't serve the millions of readers that the big publishers and their advertisers exist on. Which is why everyone else does so little about art....

Why Radio Plastic (and the rest) won't survive the self-driving car

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 April 201730 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, INTERNET, MEDIA, PREMIUM

One of the most wonderfully successful programmes on Dutch radio is Radio Kunststof. Every weekday on Radio 1, between seven and eight o'clock, it attracts a bizarre number of listeners, especially for that time of day. And especially for an art programme. On TV then is DWDD, also called art programme on its public channels, but with Matthijs van Nieuwkerk and millions of viewers. How...

How to get 10 million young people reading. The story behind Hooked.

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 April 201730 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, INTERNET, LITERARY, MEDIA, PREMIUM

Something is changing considerably in the world of literature. Libraries are closing or turning into flex spaces for poor freelancers. The sold circulation of an average successful novel remains in four figures. Young people no longer watch TV or listen to the radio, but make their own well-watched and generously paid films on YouTube. Or they sit the...

Somewhere at STRP Biennial 2017, a future, earth-shattering genius is walking around among the schoolchildren

by Jaïr Tchong
30 March 20171 April 2017
5 min read
INTERNET, MEDIA

Leisure is the mother of philosophy. -motto of British philosopher Thomas Hobbes, seen in Klokgebouw during STRP17 An app called "Die with me" that, as soon as your smartphone is at five per cent remaining power, automatically connects with other Die with me users. An app game called "Airb'n'bhost", where you have to choose who offers the airb'n'b interior from three portrait photos each time. The most fun:...

Art criticism in times of Facebook and Blendle. (A survival guide.)

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 March 20175 April 2023
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MEDIA, PREMIUM

In a discussion (on facebook, where else) about NRC Handelsblad's departure from Blendle, an editor of that newspaper made very disparaging remarks about a reader who had paid 30 cents for one of his articles. In a recent article on Frankwatching, an expert concluded that investigative journalism could only survive if we started subsidising newspapers....

Max, please, put Martine and André together in Heel Holland Bakt!

by Hannah Roelofs
8 February 201720 February 2017
3 min read
MEDIA, TELEVISION

A preview of Heel Holland Bakt in February? Isn't that a bit premature? Well no, because the deadline for potential bakers is already 1 March and filming starts in April. So we have to be quick. First, let's clear up the misconception that this broadcaster MAX programme would be for elderly people. Heel Holland Bakt...

New Year's Eve lottery winner overturns culture cuts

by Henri Drost
12 January 201728 December 2018
3 min read
ACTUAL, INTERNET, MEDIA

A usually reliable source reports that the winner of the New Year's Eve lottery wants to dedicate a significant part of her prize to culture. In this way, she wants to undo the cuts made by Rutte I. Six million will go directly to the Dutch Travel Opera. Another four million is earmarked for a new integral performance of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen. Also scheduled is a revival of Tristan und Isolde...

YouTube is bursting at the seams!

by Red Press
6 January 201729 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, INTERNET, MEDIA, SPECIALS

It is easier than ever to produce and distribute your own videos. Every minute, more than 300 hours of videos are uploaded to YouTube. Is this gigantic amount still manageable? No. The video platform has become too big to continue to exist smoothly. By Nuno Blijboom There is no better source for cat videos, bullying vloggers and gaming youngsters

Amira, stop imitating opera arias, take singing lessons while you still can!

by Rudolf Hunnik
19 December 201630 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MEDIA, OPERA, PODIUM ART, TELEVISION

Nine-year-old Amira Willighagen was when she won the TV talent show 'Holland's got talent' in 2013 with opera arias. Her Puccini aria 'O mio babbino caro' still attracts millions of viewers on YouTube. What makes Amira so immensely popular? Is it her singing skills or is it her adorable childlike appearance? In Huizen, a village in the Gooi region, she gave a concert with...

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