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Bookseller continues to discourage ebooks

by one of our members
20 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Meldden we hier eerder al hoe de vaderlandse boekverkopers hun best doen om u tot aan de poorten van de hel te achtervolgen als u een ebook ‘aanschaft’, het lezen zelf blijkt ook een mijnenveld. Een van onze volgers schafte onlangs een ebook aan bij de grootste online boekverkoper van Nederland (althans tot die club uit Amerika binnenkwam). Haar gloednieuwe Kobo-reader bleek echter niet bestand tegen dit boek. Waar het apparaatje bij alle andere digitale boeken moeiteloos het epaper ververste, duurde het omslaan van een pagina in het boek ‘Vergeef ons’ van A.M. Homes ruim een half uur, en dat was iets te veel slow reading voor deze mevrouw.

Tristan und Isolde is the ultimate declaration of love

by Henri Drost
18 September 201311 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

"That sounds different. A bit sad."

I just played F, B, D♯ and G♯. Better known as the Tristan chord. But on guitar. My audience consists of 15 toddlers.

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Subtle but dull Fokine fine lead to Van Manen's 'Corps' and promising premiere of EGPC at the Dutch National Ballet

by Fransien van der Putt
17 September 201311 July 2016
7 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

The bodies of Fokine, Van Manen and EGPC in the Dutch National Ballet's new programme 'Corps' are vastly different, though they all dance a form of ballet. It is the differences in stakes (decorative or expressive, stylised control or individual surrender, full of symbolism or stripped of it) and the key role for the ensemble that make the programme extremely interesting. Besides the fact that EGPC seems to be on its way to an artistic breakthrough.

Les Nabis uit Hermitage Petersburg in volle glorie te zien aan de Amstel

by Madeleine Red
16 September 201311 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

In de grote zaal van de Hermitage Amsterdam is de muzieksalon van zakenman en kunstverzamelaar Ivan Morozov nagebouwd. De zaal waar normaal de topstukken van de exposities aan de Amstel hangen, laat nu zien hoe de muziekkamer van Morozovs Moskouse stadspaleis eruit zag. Met vleugel en al. Maar bovenal: met de wanddecoraties van Maurice Denis, die speciaal hiervoor opdracht had gekregen. Voor een keer hebben deze schilderingen de Hermitage verlaten, zodat ook St. Petersburg kan werken aan een zelfde reconstructie. De kans is klein dat ze St. Petersburg daarna nog verlaten.

Borgman is Dutch entry for the Oscars

by Leo Bankersen
13 September 201329 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

It cannot have been a difficult choice. The feature film Borgman by Alex van Warmerdam had already made it through to the Cannes competition earlier this year. Now this dark, wry-comic thriller has been chosen as the Dutch entry for the 86th Academy Awards (the Oscars) in

NRC doesn't count right: not 11, but at least 34 groups gone due to cuts

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 September 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

According to NRC Handelsblad Culture cuts became fatal for 'only' 11 theatre institutions. Here they assume groups that actually dissolved themselves. In their overview, however, they overlook the companies that voluntarily dissolved themselves by merging with another company. In addition, there are a number of institutions that disbanded before the new round because it was already clear that they would not receive any money. If we do count those, we come to at least 34 companies. That is already 25% of what was on offer before the cuts.

Oudolf's sturdy sprites replace floating trestles in Rotterdam harbour

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Piet Oudolf, the Dutch garden artist who changed the face of New York changed, is best known in the Netherlands as an ennobled plant book author. After many big cities worldwide, Rotterdam is the first city in the Netherlands to have a public garden designed by the now 69-year-old designer. And it immediately becomes clear what we have been missing in our 'public green space' for all these years. Quite right, then, that Oudolf received the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund Prize gets awarded.

Twelve-tone horror at KCO

by Thea Derks
12 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM, MUSIC

Tonight and tomorrow night, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra kicks off the fourth season of the AAA series, with film music under the title 'Suspense'. But not everyone will immediately associate composers like Bartók, Lutyens and Schoenberg with cinema.

Mondrian, Verhoeven and human rights in Netherlands-Russia year

by Leo Bankersen
11 September 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

With all the critical coverage of Russia that Putin and his supporters provoke, we would almost forget that we are in the middle of the Netherlands-Russia year sitting. A screening of Paul Verhoeven's war film will take place tonight at the Pioner Gorky Park in Moscow Black Book, as a kick-off to

More art supply does not create more demand, but free helps

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 September 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

More seats do not bring more spectators. The only way to get more spectators to venues and museums is: drop the price. This is according to figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics.

Dream team comes to save Utrecht Games

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 September 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

Thibaud Delpeut, up-and-coming talent in theatre land, has been appointed artistic director of The Utrecht Games. Jacques van Veen has been appointed as managing director to exude sufficient confidence in the business field as well. He previously won his spurs at the Holland Festival and Groningen City Theatre.

Armando Navarro (1930-2013): Scapino Ballet for more than just children

by Ruben Brugman
4 September 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Armando Navarro (Argentina, 1930 - Amsterdam 2013), former artistic director of Scapino Ballet, passed away last Sunday. Together with his wife Marian Sarstädt formed Navarro one of the Netherlands' best-known dance couples, alongside Han Ebbelaar and Alexandra Radius (Het Nationale Ballet) and Jiří Kylián and Sabine Kupferberg (Nederlands Dans Theater).

Daan Roosegaarde for president? Alderman? Councillor?

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Jet Bussemaker believes in Daan Roosegaarde. She confessed this on Sunday 1 September during the traditional Paradiso debate. She admired his courage to imagine the unthinkable and his drive to come up not with opinions but with proposals. Her message to the arts sector, again almost fully present in Paradiso, was clear: stop complaining, start doing something.

BPP kaputt (5): what exactly is a dead body in the closet, or: is 4 million enough?

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 August 20138 July 2016
7 min read
ACTUAL

The dissolution of the Performing Arts Promotion Office continues to stir minds. So another piece, even though we are actually supposed to be walking around the Uitmarkt to expensive advertising leaflets to sell.

Enfin.

EAR at the Fringe Festival: its own little world of music, dance and needle & thread

by Maarten Baanders
29 August 201330 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

"I have no theatre background, but I know what I like." These words from Cammy Mai Tran are typical of a trend among young theatre-makers. They find the walls between different art disciplines to be oppressive. Increasingly, we see them walking right through those walls. And when the blow is over, new inspiration swirls richly over them.

BPP Kaputt (4): 1.7 million available for international performing arts promotion: who has plans?

by one of our members
28 August 20138 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

Het Fonds Podiumkunsten neemt de internationale promotie van de podiumkunsten over van het Bureau Promotie Podiumkunsten, dat binnenkort wegens wanbeheer geldgebrek wordt opgeheven. Dat blijft het fonds doen tot 1 juni 2014. In de tussentijd zoekt men daar naar een nieuwe partij die de boel kan overnemen. Ook het programma waarmee belangrijke bezoekers uit het buitenland kunnen worden uitgenodigd, zal…

Kunstproject ‘Ruilen met Robinson’ in trek bij hardcore koopjesjagers

by Wijbrand Schaap
28 August 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Pet van de Luijtgaarden heeft iets met verzamelingen. Hij verzamelt ze dan ook. Maar omdat hij kunstenaar is wil hij ook iets met die verzamelingen zeggen: ‘Ik ben vooral bezig met de maatschappij. Ik vind dat we ten onder gaan aan overproductie en om dat te laten zien wil ik juist over de top gaan.’

Money: the biggest threat to our cultural heritage

by one of our members
28 August 20138 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

Update: According to the Film Newspaper, it's not all that bad: http://www.filmkrant.nl/nieuws_2013/9842

It was announced today that a large archive containing almost all raw film material from the Netherlands in the shredder threatens to disappear. Since film laboratory Cineco is bankrupt due to the vanished demand for oldskool celluloid, the vault containing unique historical material must also go. Unless someone comes forward who wants to store the material. And that costs quite a bit of money. Even though we no longer work with the highly flammable nitrate films, all that plastic does need to be kept safe.

'Ann Goldstein's departure signals Ann Goldstein's departure'

by Wijbrand Schaap
28 August 201330 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Wonderful quote in the Volkskrant, also copied by the ANP in the message feeds on Ann Goldstein's departure as artistic director of hert Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Or vice versa. Just read carefully:

Nude is main theme at 33rd edition Netherlands Film Festival, Hoe Duur was de Suiker opening film

by Leo Bankersen
27 August 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Paul Verhoeven, Dick Maas, Katja Schuurman, Monique van de Ven and Kim van Kooten are all special guests at the upcoming edition of the Dutch Film Festival. Nothing special, you might think, but if you see them on the festival posters you probably won't recognise them. After all, they are namesakes of well-known film personalities who this year

Kevin Spacey: 'Television will be fundamentally changed by arrival of Netflix'

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 August 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Three-quarters of pilot episodes for series in the US do not lead to a sequel. For House of Cards, the series with which the on-demand and streaming video channel Netflix final breakthrough in America, no pilot episode was made. Major broadcasters refused the series without pilot to make, but Netflix immediately saw that there would be a large enough audience for it. That was

Ebooks onder vuur door BREIN en Google

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 August 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

Dat de boekenmarkt het moeilijk heeft, is inmiddels wel bekend. In de strijd tussen papier en ereader gaat het er hard aan toe. Uitgevers vinden digitaal lezen eigenlijk een vorm van diefstal. Mag u een gekocht papieren boek behalve lezen, ook verknippen, uitlenen, weggeven, doorverkopen en verbranden, met een ebook mag dat allemaal niet.

Art. Videos for those who did not already know

by one of our members
16 August 201330 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

From facebook gesponst: those who wondered why there was art again. Or why it costs money. Those people are there .

Series of videos now.

Bureau Promotie Podiumkunsten kaputt (3): een lijk van anderhalf miljoen in de kast

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 August 201330 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

De Theaterbon is populairder geweest dan de uitgever vermoedde. Theaterbezoekers hebben zeker de laatste tien jaar meer van deze boekenbon voor podiumkunsten gebruik gemaakt dan verwacht. Anderhalf miljoen euro meer. Gevolg is dat de Stichting voor de Promotie van het Theater en Concertbezoek SPTC sinds 2011 te maken heeft met een negatief vermogen.

NJO honours Steve Reich

by Thea Derks
12 August 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

Ever since the establishment of the NJO Summer Academy in 2001, one composer takes centre stage every year, in the current edition it is Steve Reich (1936). During the NJO Music Summer, two hundred music students from fifteen countries will play a good number of compositions by the American grandmaster.

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