All about politics, policy, society and how those things relate to culture and art.
Is it because of the ice age? Is it a question of money or guts? Last night, the Amsterdam cinema Het Ketelhuis hosted the so-called Spring Consultation for the tenth time.
Ach, what the heck. We kunnen het stuk natuurlijk eerst zelf bestuderen en er dan met een gepeperde reactie en duiding op komen, en die komt ook zeker nog. Maar waarom
We saw it in March already been coming, but now it is official: culture minister Jet Bussemaker is ignoring the Museum Council's advice. So the advisory panel led by Joop Daalmeijer has not done its homework properly: its idea
Holland Festival
From the mild, everyday cacophony around the Muziekgebouw in the afternoon, on the terrace by the IJ, you'll get into the silence of the concert hall in a few steps. For three and a half hours (with over two hours of breaks in between), Asko|Schönberg, Slagwerk Den Haag and Capella Amsterdam will play and sing your ears off. Steven Schick (a.o. once Bang on a Can), not only conducts, but also takes charge of the middle part of the concert, at the Bimhuis, as a percussionist. Under his inspired direction, 'Nine Rivers' navigates between spectacle and purism: a battle between complex form and the simplicity of raw sound matter.
Holland Festival
This month is all about the Holland Festival. Culture Press reports almost daily. What are we most looking forward to?
With a real gala, the Reisopera 2.0 presents itself. And immediately strips the gala of its stuffy image. With thanks to the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble.
Today, the Dutch pavilion of the Venice Biennale was opened by culture minister Jet Bussemaker. And she did so with a speech that the culture sector will appreciate. No longer the harsh and cold tone of Halbe Zijlstra's neo-conservative vacuousness, but a
Tjitske Reidinga, our favourite actress, who is in the middle of her golden years, is coming up with a new summer comedy: 'An Ideal Woman'. The blonde who theatre people have known for a long time, but ordinary people only got to know through the TV series Gooise Vrouwen, gets to decide what she does at the New Delamartheatre for three years, and so she is now going for Mad Men....
Het boekingskantoor stuurt enthousiaste mails rond, en sommige Britse kranten schijnen het maar niks te vinden, Maar toch. Martin en Mariëlle zijn door naar de halve finale van de ITV-show Britain’s Got Talent. En dat schijnt een hele prestatie te zijn. Oordeel zelf.
Putting a man and a boy on stage together - upper body bared; in today's times, that means asking for trouble. Our gaze, saturated by paedophilia scandals, leaves little in the way of intimacy between what could also be father and son, brothers or friends. But 'Victor' by choreographer Jan Martens and director Peter Seynaeve is no good, politically correct repartee. In their search for a loving look at the relationship between husband and child, they also consistently push the boundaries of what is permissible.
Would Gilles Jacob, the director of the Cannes Film Festival, see it as a godsend or a knee-jerk reaction to American studios? That Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby Wednesday's opening film certainly means spectacle and a lot of attention. But it is not a world premiere,
We are quite happy with the Netherlands, if only because of the language. After all, we can write in Dutch here, and then there are quite a few people who can read us, and understand us when we speak. In Thailand
As an art journalist, art makers give me VIP treatment: free tickets, separate desks, they say YOU to me and hang on my every word when I tell them something. That's a
De Verleiders, de grote theaterhit van het afgelopen seizoen, voert de juryselectie aan van Het Theaterfestival 2013. De door een groep acteurs en cabaretiers, waaronder Pierre Bokma en
When both nu.co.uk, BBC news and virtually every German newspaper simultaneously cover an opera, something must be going on. And there is: Nazis! Wagner! Outraged spectators! More than that: doctors had to be called in!
Programme V is NDT1's last programme this season. It seems to be a final chord in more ways than one.
Op de premièredag ging een officieel bericht uit dat choreograaf en ex-artistiek leider Jirí Kylián na 36 jaar betrokkenheid zijn handen aftrekt van NDT. Van september 2014 tot 2017 zal daarnaast geen werk van
On 8 September next, pianist, composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw hopes to turn 75 and this will be celebrated with a range of events. These include a three-day festival dedicated to him in The Hague and Amsterdam at the end of September, and next season he will be
Er gaan meer mensen naar populaire kunst dan naar ‘hoge’ of ‘canonieke’ kunst. Onderzoeker Andries van den Broek heeft dat onderzocht. Daarom zijn er nu cijfers die het woord ‘populair’ en ‘elitair’ verklaren. Dus
Hilversum, 1-5-2013 – Op de dag van de Arbeid besteedde het VARA programma The Guide op Radio 1 aandacht aan de nakende opheffing van de library van de omroep, waardoor zo’n tien hooggespecialiseerde en toegewijde medewerkers hun baan verliezen. Hoewel dit immense en unieke archief, dat zo’n vijf kilometer aan partituren, partijen en boeken herbergt, voor een half miljoen euro overeind kan worden gehouden, wordt het toch per 1 augustus opgedoekt.
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