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All about politics, policy, society and how those things relate to culture and art.

Culture Council knew about 'Hole of DUS'

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 September 20128 July 2016
6 min read
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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)

by Leo Bankersen
14 September 201230 March 2022
2 min read
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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...

'Arts education virtually eliminated'

by one of our members
10 September 20128 July 2016
2 min read
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Update 11 September 2012: Labour Party corrects election manifesto in response to reporting below:

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Drama awards party in year of gloom

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 September 201229 March 2022
3 min read
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It had to be a party, because there has been enough shouting and complaining and it doesn't help anything anyway. After a year in which the theatre sector in particular felt the hard hand of Mark Ruttes happy crisis policy, awards had to be handed out again. So the already not-so-huge crème de la crème of the Dutch theatre world gathered again for the gala at Amsterdam's Stadsschouwburg. It was a valiant attempt at optimism, while

VVD gets it right: theatre closed for two days

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 September 201230 March 2022
1 min read
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Quite a few VVD people were angry with us, because last year we made the Rotterdam alderman for culture caught stupid: she argued that cultural institutions did not need to open during the week at all, because hard-working people only had time for art on weekends anyway.

State-of-the-art robot dances to old reggae

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 September 201230 March 2022
1 min read
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To be seen from Friday 7 September in the Amsterdam Stadsschouwburg foyer: this dancing copy by the artist Leonard van Munster. A nice combo of dance, technology, theatre and art, we thought.

Do we still like Facebook?

by Leo Bankersen
4 September 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

As the internet becomes increasingly synonymous with big companies like Facebook for many people, the old ideal of an open and free world net is starting to fade.

Bold p***o on the euro note?

by Wijbrand Schaap
3 September 201229 March 2022
3 min read
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There has been another interesting cultural twist to the 'Europe debate'. Someone has called out that it watermark of the new series of euro banknotes will include a picture of 'the rape of Europe' by the Greek supreme god Zeus. The anti-Europe and anti-Greeks in the various timelines need no more to frame the banking mafia's conspiracy against European citizens.

Eric de Vroedt: 'Eventually reached Obama too'

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 August 201230 March 2022
1 min read
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Winning two awards in one weekend, that doesn't often happen to a person, not even in the award-winning art world. Eric de Vroedt is a theatre-maker and writer to whom it has thus happened. Entering his final season 'MightySociety' he got the Amsterdam Prize (35,000 euros) and the Prize of Criticism (a statuette), determined by a jury of newspaper reviewers.

The Promise main theme at 32nd Netherlands Film Festival - audience recruitment stepped up

by Leo Bankersen
28 August 201230 March 2022
2 min read
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Next year, the Netherlands Film Festival will have to face extensive budget cuts. Therefore, let's enjoy this year extra, was the recommendation with which festival director Willemien van Aalst closed the press conference presenting the programme of the 32nd Netherlands Film Festival this afternoon. Precisely in this time of economic headwind, the festival has chosen this year's The Promise

Halbe Zijlstra: 'nothing to do with local arts policy'

by one of our members
27 August 20128 July 2016
10 min read
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Halbe Zijlstra is proud of his policy, and keen to come and tell it in front of the entire cultural sector. So on Sunday 26 August, he appeared on stage during the annual 'Paradiso Debate' to reiterate how well things had gone with the 200 million cut in the arts sector. He praised the resilience of the affected art world, and would be happy to do the same again.

'Windfall cuts': bricks saved, people sacrificed

by Wijbrand Schaap
25 August 20128 July 2016
2 min read
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The major research and management consulting firm Berenschot has calculated that, on balance, the cuts to the arts turn out to be not too bad. Client of the study, De Volkskrant, then headlined that big. And indeed, it is kind of good news that the pile-up of cuts (the state 24% less, the provinces 20% less and the municipalities only 9 % less) is so low in net terms. We were surprised for a moment, but when we asked around, we found out

Theatre on demand offers British quality

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 August 201230 March 2022
2 min read
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Lots of bobbing on boards. That's what drama on television is mostly. And actors with weird reverberations in intimate scenes. That too. It is easy to shoot at attempts to bring successful performances to the TV or cinema screen. They almost always make viewers feel that their medium is shooting back 80 years in development. This is also why every attempt by the Dutch Public Broadcasting Corporation to make our fairly highly regarded stage art attractive to a wider audience via TV fails. Theatre or opera on screen is especially suitable for

Cronyism at the Performing Arts Fund?

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 August 201230 March 2022
3 min read
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In the small Dutch art world, it is impossible to put together a committee of experts which is entirely independent. Anyone with knowledge of business also has knowledge of people, or has worked at an institution that is now to be judged. Or works there now. Reason enough, then, for speculation and conspiracy theories.

Culture Council hands out in second round

by one of our members
13 August 201229 March 2022
1 min read
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Yet money for the National Academy of Visual Arts, money for an orchestra merger in the south of the Netherlands and 4.7 million for a knowledge institute for amateur art. The clear-cutting of the Dutch cultural sector has become a little less extreme thanks to a second advice from the Council for Culture. Besides the aforementioned positive assessment, there is also money for a knowledge institute for the creative sector

Edelkoort signals development of animation art better than she thinks

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 August 20128 July 2016
2 min read
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On 12 August 2012, during the worst watched Summer guests-broadcast of all time (343,000 viewers) told trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort about The Johnny Cash Project. A great example of what crowdsourcing can do for creativity: in 2010, everyone was invited to add a drawing to an animated music video to Johnny Cash's latest song. We now know what and who is behind this:

Maastricht on slippery European ice with arts subsidy

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 August 20128 July 2016
2 min read
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Maastricht is going to do things differently. Starting next year, the city council will determine what art is needed, and art institutions will be allowed to submit plans that fit within that framework. If their plans do not comply, they will not get any money. Sounds nice, but the capital of Limburg is treading on thin ice.

European austerity map runs out

by one of our members
9 August 20128 July 2016
1 min read
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The Guardian, the newspaper at the forefront of crowdsourcing, has made available an interactive map showing the cuts to culture being made by governments across Europe. We already know that the Netherlands is in the lead, but Spain is not doing well either, as we might have expected. You can help build the map yourself, and that...

Volkskrant fails: not 'region' but Randstad suffers

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 August 201229 March 2022
3 min read
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I would like to take a moment to put this one to you. Quote from this morning's volkskrant, where editor Harmen Bockma makes a valiant attempt to list all the figures of culture carnage, but fails a little in doing so. It also remains difficult to identify the fallout in the basic infrastructure add to the dropout at the fund, but it is proving altogether difficult to discern what

Baldwin Live

by one of our members
31 July 201230 March 2022
18 min read
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On Wednesday 1 August 2012, the Performing Arts Fund will announce the results of the lottery that granting arts subsidies has now become. Huge cuts are looming: companies and makers that by now seemed to be a permanent part of the Dutch arts landscape will disappear. Exactly what it will look like, we know

Nobody likes a critic

by Daniel Bertina
27 July 201230 March 2022
2 min read
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While YouTubesurfing, I stumbled upon these razor-sharp sketches of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Descended from the heyday of their genius programme A Bit Of Fry & Laurie. Watching this beautifully parsed windbag, a nasty feeling came over me that damn little has changed in the mindset of art critics since this skit was broadcast. Complacency is always lurking.

Paradiso full of dance energy at I Like To Watch Too

by Maarten Baanders
19 July 201229 March 2022
5 min read
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I Like To Watch Too: abundance of performances shows that dance and performance are powerfully connected to modern society. The dance steps rain down on you even before you have entered Paradiso. Tim Boerlijst tap-dances on the pavement. This infectious welcome immediately draws visitors into the atmosphere of 'I Like To Watch Too'. This festival showcases dance and performance from...

William Kentridge & the dress rehearsal for the Holocaust

by Daniel Bertina
16 July 201229 March 2022
4 min read
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With Black Box / Chambre Noire the Jewish Historical Museum presents the first exhibition by South African artist William Kentridge in the Netherlands. A multimedia artwork On the first genocide of the 20th century. Now on display at the Jewish Historical Museum.

Halbe Zijlstra should fund Culture Card after all.

by one of our members
6 July 20128 July 2016
1 min read
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It was the issue on which he lied the hardest, as we demonstrated a year ago, but the country's most hated secretary of state did not care. Despite its great success, the culture card for schoolchildren had to be killed off, and on spurious grounds. Now the card has been saved by the chamber. A majority voted in favour of a motion by CDA and PvdA,...

Tate London has 100,000 members. Fortunately not all of them are active

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 July 20128 July 2016
1 min read
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Martin Barden realises that an old model works, where everyone is always clamouring for new forms. As marketing boss of the Tate museums in London, he created a large network of friends. So that museum has more than 100,000 members. people who feel part of the club, and whom you need to pamper.

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