Toonder exhibition hits target, misses essence
Het Letterkundig Museum mist met zijn ‘Dubbel Denkraam’ tentoonstelling over het leven en werk van Marten Toonder de essentie van de kunst van Toonder.
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DUS retains grant, leadership leaves
Het meest markante gezelschap van Nederland, als het gaat om omgaan met subsidiegeld, is gered. De Theatre newspaper meldt dat het Rijk akkoord is met de nieuwe, aangepaste begroting, die moest worden opgesteld nadat earlier this year een verlies was ontstaan van ruim 2 miljoen euro. Het gezelschap behoudt dus de anderhalf miljoen euro en artistiek leider Jos Thie en zijn zakelijke partner Jelle Snijder worden met pek en veren de stad uit gejaagd, waar zij zich kunnen voegen bij de Raad van Toezicht die al eerder de ogen iets te dicht had gedaan. Immers, een peperdure productie inzetten om het tekort uit een eerdere run van diezelfde peperdure productie goed te maken: geen ondernemer zou dat ooit toestaan.
41.5 million a year for improving cultural education
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science is investing time and money in improving cultural education in primary schools in the coming years. Through a combination of existing pots and money contributed by the state, municipalities and provinces, 41.5 million euros a year will be freed up for arts education in the coming years. And before every self-employed artist starts making plans now: that money will mainly go towards research and procedures, with the most concrete goal being: 'the development of a curriculum for cultural education'.
Cinekid honours French animation filmmaker Michel Ocelot with Lifetime Achievement Award
The feature-length French animated film is on the rise. To emphasise this, Michel Ocelot, one of the pacesetters, has been invited as guest of honour by the Cinekid children's film festival. Tonight, he was also presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award, which he accepted with a modest protest. As an animation filmmaker, Michel Ocelot (1943) still considers himself an adolescent with much to discover.
Art for all: €3 per person, per month
De discussie was en is oeverloos, maar inmiddels hebben we cijfers. Dankzij de nieuwe ‘kengetallen’ van het Ministerie van OCW weten we nu hoeveel het Rijk (wij met zijn allen) over hebben voor de mogelijkheid om kunst mee te maken: per inwoner geeft de staat 38,90 per jaar uit aan subsidies voor dans, toneel, musea, jeugdtheater, opera en orkesten. Dat is dus iets meer 3 euro per maand. Inderdaad wel iets om elkaar over in de haren te vliegen, vinden we.
New impetus by young dance talent at PUNCH! Festival
PUNCH! is a fantastic festival. It shows how much beauty, news and surprise emerge when the line between dance and performance is dissolved. PUNCH! promotes a refreshing view of the world and shakes loose entrenched interpretations. The young dance makers and performers show tremendous originality and creativity that you will not only enjoy watching, you will go...
Rembo & Rembo fraternise in 'Sex Sells'
Theo Wesselo en Maxim Hartman maakten zich onsterfelijk met hun iconische tv-programma Rembo & Rembo. De twee komen nader tot elkaar in hun tentoonstelling Sex Sells. Nu te zien in de Amsterdamse galerie Vriend van Bavink, tot en met 12 oktober. Lucas van Eck en Daniël Bertina spraken ze, vlak voor de opening…
Marion von Tilzer wins Women's Composition Prize MCN with Rote Schuhe
Amsterdam, 8 October 2012 During the well-attended Classical Music Day at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ the prize winners of the competition for women composers were announced this afternoon. The day was organised for the 11th time by Music centre Netherlands (MCN), which will cease to exist on 1 January. Thanks to an anonymous bequest, explicitly intended for women composers, three prizes could be awarded.
Internet users can comment on plan to abolish CKV
Minister Bijsterveld of OCW is going to ask the country for advice. A so-called internet consultation was launched this week on her ministry's intention to abolish Cultural and Artistic Education for Havo and VWO pupils. 'The Field' can now respond, so we suggest you make your views, and especially your substantive arguments known to the ministry, via this link:
NFF 2012 - Jos Stellings The Girl and Death enchants Golden Calf jury
The big question was how many of those seven Golden Calf nominations Plan C would manage to cash in. To everyone's surprise, this petty crime comedy that attracted less than 7,000 visitors in cinemas had garnered even more nominations than
Netherlands closes a special embassy
Deze week viel officieel het doek voor de Theatre Emabassy, een club bevlogen mensen die Nederlandse kunstenaars liet samenwerken met kunstenaars in ontwikkelingslanden als Honduras, Bhutan en Congo. De voorstellingen die dat opleverde waren maar sporadisch in Nederland te zien, maar zo nu en dan maakte een project ook hier breed indruk, zoals een ‘Op Hoop van Zegen’, gespeeld door echte vissers, maar dan uit Mali.
Ed Spanjaard unleashes primal forces in Götterdämmerung Reisopera
The final applause after the premiere of Götterdämmerung stormy, is an understatement. It seemed as if the completely sold-out auditorium wanted to surpass the primal forces extracted from the Gelders Orkest by Ed Spanjaard. History was made here: on stage, by the soloists and choir, in the orchestra pit and behind the scenes, for six hours and 20 minutes.
NFF 2012 - All student awards go to the Film Academy
De Filmacademie kan tevreden zijn. De twee jury’s die op het Nederlands Filmfestival maandagavond de drie studentenprijzen uitreikten hadden ook naar eindexamenwerk van andere Nederlandse academies met een filmsectie gekeken. Maar uiteindelijk waren alle gelukkigen studenten van de Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie, zoals de Amsterdamse opleiding voluit heet. Alweer Magnesium. De Tuschinski Award voor de beste afstudeerfilm, dit…
NFF - 'The rules of Matthijs' mandatory curriculum for emergency workers
The crop of feature-length documentaries screened at the Netherlands Film Festival is good. They are extraordinary stories, sometimes startling, sometimes penetrating, sometimes fodder for much discussion, and almost all very beautifully filmed. We wish the jury much wisdom. The nominated documentary 'The Rules of Matthijs' is interesting for everyone, but should be compulsory reading for social workers,...
Milestone in sight
We never actually pat ourselves on the back, but so once every few years it is allowed. For instance, when you are 'top story' within an hour on the global twitter story website 'storify.com'. Of course, we often have a sudden surge in visitors, and certainly last September was a top month with 15000 visitors, but something like that, more than 500 visitors in not even an hour....
NFF 2012: premiere of George Sluizer's unfinished Dark Blood
Perhaps expectations were simply too high at the premiere of George Sluizer's 19-year-old, and now completed Dark Blood. Because, of course, it is entirely appropriate that the Netherlands Film Festival has taken the opportunity for a fine retrospective of Sluizer, one of the Netherlands' most distinguished filmmakers with the world as its purview. Maker of the blood-curdling...
#NFF Opening film Nono sings away from dull realism
What a festive opening film it was! The Dutch Film Festival's choice of Nono, the zigzag child had of course to do with the fact that Dutch family films will be specially put in the festival spotlight this year. But even apart from that theme, it was an unmissable kick-off. Because we may like to grumble that the weather was not...
'Collective copyright abuse is global problem'
A while back, there was fuss in the Netherlands about the BUMA, the club that collects copyrights for musicians and publishers. Money had been lost in speculation and a director was engaging in nepotism. These cases do not appear to be isolated. At least, they are also mentioned in an overview of all known cases of abuse of power and corruption at collecting societies worldwide.
Archives Wim Kan and Louis Davids not in dumpster
De volledige collectie van het Theatermuseum is gered. De archieven van grootheden als Wim Kan en Louis Davids, maar ook 50.000 toneelrecensies, 30.000 theateraffiches, 146.000 foto’s van 22.000 voorstellingen, 26.000 portretfoto’s van 2450 theatermakers en een uitgebreide audio- en videocollectie worden ondergebracht bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam.De verhuizing is mogelijk nu het ministerie van OCW, met de immer op geld beluste demissionaire staatssecretaris van Cultuur Halbe Zijlstra, niet langer beslag legt op de reserves van het Theater Instituut Nederland (TIN).
'Pearls' at the Leiden Cloth Hall is a boundless experience
'Pearls' is an exhibition with the limitlessness, fantasy and dreamlike vistas that come with a fairy tale. Associations with the pearl roll in all directions. Those who wander around in 'Pearls' forget for a moment everything to do with sober everyday reality. Pearls appear everywhere. The works of art accompanying this exhibition are scattered among the fixed...
Gergiev Festival full of Sunday afternoon music
What could be the matter with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival - the official name to emphasise its international appeal anyway? As soon as you enter concert hall de Doelen, you immediately get the feeling that you have arrived at an ordinary, weekday concert, even though Valeri Gergiev is on the posters. No decoration of the large rooms...
Artists paint artists in 'We, the Artists'
Unruly Gallery, a tiny underground art gallery on Amsterdam's Cliffordstraat, presents the group exhibition We, the Artists. Featuring portraits of artists created by other artists. How self-referential do you want it to be? Very worthwhile nonetheless. Unruly Gallery is one of the few artist-run galleries in Amsterdam with a refreshing do-it-yourself attitude. The gallery was set up by Niels Meulman and Adele...
Culture Council knew about 'Hole of DUS'
Theatre company the Utrecht Games, city company of the Netherlands' fourth largest city, is on the brink of bankruptcy. It was recently revealed that the company led by artistic and business director Jos Thie has a deficit of €2.1 million. Correspondence that has since surfaced shows that it was already clear in May this year that problems were getting out of hand. That was a month after the Utrecht subsidy advisory committee issued its laudatory opinion, and a few weeks before the Council for Culture issued its very thrifty advice.
Magnesium by Sam de Jong best graduation film Film Academy (according to Dutch film press)
It is now official. Magnesium, with which Sam de Jong graduated as director from the Film Academy, was already praised in several publications earlier this year. So it did not come as a complete surprise that yesterday afternoon, during the drinks on the roof terrace of the Film Academy, the Kring van Nederlandse Filmjournalisten announced that Magnesium declared itself winner of the KNF Prize for best...
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