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ACTUAL

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

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.

Raad voor Cultuur deelt uit in tweede ronde

by one of our members
13 August 201229 March 2022
1 min read
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Toch geld voor de Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten, geld voor een orkestenfusie in Zuid Nederland en 4,7 miljoen voor een kennisinstituut voor amateurkunst. De kaalslag van de Nederlandse Cultuursector is dankzij een tweede advies van de Raad voor Cultuur een beetje minder extreem geworden. Naast de genoemde positieve beoordeling is er ook geld voor een kennisinstituut voor de creatieve sector…

Edelkoort signals development of animation art better than she thinks

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 August 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

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
ACTUAL

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.

Europese bezuinigingskaart raakt vol

by one of our members
9 August 20128 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL

The Guardian, de krant die voorop loopt met crowdsoursing, heeft een interactieve kaart beschikbaar gesteld waarop de bezuinigingen op cultuur zichtbaar zijn die regeringen in heel Europa doorvoeren. Dat Nederland voorop loopt, weten we al, maar in Spanje gaat het ook niet best, zoals we hadden kunnen verwachten. Je kunt zelf meewerken aan de opbouw van de kaart, en dat…

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 breakdown 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 creators 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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Al YouTubesurfend stuitte ik op deze messcherpe sketches van Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Afkomstig uit de hoogtijdagen van hun geniale programma A Bit Of Fry & Laurie. Bij het zien van deze prachtig gepersifleerde windbuilerij, overviel me het akelige gevoel dat er sinds de uitzending van deze sketch verdomd weinig is veranderd in de mentaliteit van de kunstcritici. De zelfgenoegzaamheid ligt altijd op de loer.

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 moves 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
ACTUAL

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 have to pamper.

Awards for experimental docu and absurdist fiction

by Leo Bankersen
3 July 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

EYE is pulling out all the stops. This year, the final exam papers of the students of the Netherlands Film and Television Academy will get an ideal presentation in the largest auditorium of this new film centre. What is also new is that yesterday, immediately after the screening for press and relations, awards were handed out for best commercial (The End, Soon), best documentary (A Twist in...

Nancy Wiltink: 'a good story has to smell like blood'

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 June 201230 March 2022
1 min read
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People asking for clarity often clamour for "names and (back) numbers", but in classical music, that fuss with names and numbers is precisely why nobody understands anything anymore. So, according to ex-marketer and now storyteller Nancy Wiltink, it's not only about your story, but also whether that story is

'FATFORM is fat enough for all free radicals'

by Daniel Bertina
28 June 201229 March 2022
4 min read
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Two years ago, a number of artists from collective FUCK and production company Finger.co.uk the roof of Kraaiennest shopping centre in Amsterdam Southeast, and stomped FATFORM out of the ground. An elusive art project, rooftop party and free state. Now they have moved up a hundred metres.

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Theatre Museum collection to be lost for good

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 June 201229 March 2022
3 min read
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[July update: the 2nd chamber passed a motion instructing the cabinet to save the collection from destruction. Where this is to be paid for, however, is still unclear]

It is now becoming clear where the laissez faire-laissez mourir (let it be done, let it die) policy of Halbe Zijlstra, Martin Bosma and Mark Rutte will lead. Of the dozens of institutions that will close, downsize or die off in the coming months due to vacancy of quality staff, the demise of Theatre Institute of the Netherlands (TIN) is starting to take on very tragic proportions.

"Janine Dijkmeijer to National Ballet"

by one of our members
24 June 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

The message below has since been confirmed. But we like to cherish our firsts. Hence. Of course, the merger event in and around Amsterdam's Muziektheater, where ballet, opera and theatre will work in unison, also produced a game of musical chairs. Stijn Schoonderwoerd, for instance, announced a month or so ago that he was going to do something else, and so the Dutch National Ballet was looking...

'Publicity after the show is more important than before'

by one of our members
20 June 201230 March 2022
2 min read
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He is a professor of it, so if there is a problem in the economics of culture, Arjo Klamer knows about it. He says there has been growing resentment against subsidies for years. So the arts sector will have to get used to making a living in a different way from now on.

Save a museum: make sure you make friends

by one of our members
17 June 201229 March 2022
1 min read
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There are funny answers in the way people sometimes try not to answer a question. Dirk van Delft, as director of Museum Boerhaave bring in a sloppy €1 million from the market.

Classical musicians: stop thinking in money, think in ideas

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 June 201230 March 2022
1 min read
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Classical music audiences have been declining by 1% a year for 20 years. Structurally. That means that since 1992, 1/5 of the audience has already disappeared, without anything else taking its place. According to Johan Idema, strategist and author of a useful book on new methods for early music, the sector is entirely self-inflicted.

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Iván Fischer sets new Wagner standard

by Henri Drost
13 June 201229 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

That Pierre Audi does not shy away from religious symbolism is well known, but the true miracle in The Netherlands Opera's Parsifal is in the pit. There, in the hands of master conductor Iván Fischer, the Concertgebouw Orchestra sets a new Wagner standard. Despite a gigantic orchestral strength, almost chamber music-like lightness, extraordinarily transparent and, thanks to careful tempo choices, with wonderful dramatic tension. Five hours long.

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'I have all of Shakespeare's records in my cupboard'

by one of our members
11 June 201230 March 2022
3 min read
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The press presentation of the open-air opera Orfeo ed Eurydice at Soestdijk at the time attracted just under a hundred people press and sponsors. At the presentation of the performance 'Much ado about nothing', The Utrecht Games attracted only a handful: someone from weblog cultuurpodium.nl, two people from the Stadsblad Utrecht and an indeterminate camera crew who had come exclusively for Suzan Visser....

Het is allemaal de schuld van de “Rotondekunst”

by one of our members
7 June 201229 March 2022
2 min read
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In theaters met gesubsidieerd toneel zie je Henk en Ingrid niet, dus daaraan kan de haat van de VVD en PVV jegens de schone kunsten niet geweten worden, aldus Hans Onno van den Berg, voormalig directeur van de Vereniging van Schouwburg- en Concertgebouwdirecties.

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Dodo Holland Festival journal becomes Dodo Holland Festival Hangout #HF12

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 June 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

We already have one episode on it, and it was of course a huge success, but right at the climax you have to start something new. That's why tonight at 22:30 we have a new thing: The Dodo Holland Festival Hangout. Live, interactive and online. Innovative, in other words, as you know it from us. You know them: those reporter trucks with metres of spaghetti...

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