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The symposium on disturbed women in horror films held at the Imagine Festival this Sunday afternoon was actually quite a reassuring gathering. You don't have to be disturbed yourself to have a fascination with horror. At least you could infer that from
Yesterday, the long-awaited Film Summit was held. At this private meeting, ministers Bussemaker (OCW) and Kamp (Economic Affairs) met a large number of representatives of the film sector. The consultations covered
Friday, April 12, there will be a 'Film Summit' at Eye, Amsterdam. Government, producers and financiers will spend a day discussing what needs to be done to help the Dutch film industry get through the winter. This Film Summit came about at the request of
Nothing worse than having to play an unsuccessful play thirty, or a hundred times, just because the show has been sold to theatres so many times. That's why it would be nice if companies could decide not to do it. Because now they wouldn't be able to.
That things were not going well at Codarts, Rotterdam's University of the Arts, was already known. Board chairman Jikkie van der Giessen had to step down in 2011 after
It will take some getting used to he clicking 'external review' on the Internet Movie Database no longer to come across Roger Ebert's name. This legendary critic
Not Miffy herself, but her mischievous and defiant cousins are the focus of the exhibition At miffy's attic by artist Roland Sohier. In the dick bruna house, he created an exciting attic where
Time for some good news about art. The renovation of the Rijksmuseum may have taken years longer than expected, and also caused much more discussion than would have been necessary: the case is
Advertorial On 12 April 2013, urban renovator 'in retirement' Niko Koers and pianist Herman Rouw will present a unique combination book and CD about Beethoven and what it tells us about
The concentration is enormous, the mastery great. The boys and girls standing here dancing can do something. The apparent ease with which these 12-year-olds demonstrate their dance moves shows at the same time how difficult ballet is. After all, the movements have to be performed perfectly, and splashily. Moreover, of this group, only a few will make it to the world's top: The National Ballet. Students of the...
The Council for Culture, recently reinforced with new members with a lot of management talent and business acumen, has to accept defeat. Indeed, culture minister Jet Bussermaker is disregarding a key pillar of the council's latest advice.
It is as persistent as the message that everything is better in Germany. Aggrieved lovers of culture who still (and rightly) detest the breaking up of the status quo by Rutte I's hate policies often shout it.
Two new members of the Council for Culture once again show how thinking about art is changing: Jessica Mahn and Annick Schramme are women, which was necessary in this white male stronghold, but they are especially
That almost all major US family films and many action films are in 3D is by now self-evident. But contrary to predictions
In one year the AKO and Libris prizes? The front pages of newspapers would be full of it, not to mention the dozens of pages in book supplements. Composer Michel van der Aa has to make do with small announcements, tucked away in newspapers, while receiving the Grawemeyer Award and the Mauricio Kagel Music Prize is a never-before-seen double.
When Muziekcentrum Vredenburg closed its doors in 2007 for an ambitious renovation, symphonic concerts were moved from the centre of Utrecht to the emergency location Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn on the A2 motorway. The broadcasting series 'Vredenburg Friday'
Suppose you have a small capital in your pocket. And you go to the Tefaf for a day. It's a festive feeling: an art gift for yourself. But once inside, there's a good chance you'll be shocked. Because how to choose from 30,000 objects? In those 265 stands from renowned galleries from 20 countries: Argentina, United States, Canada, Italy, Japan? And which corner will you look in? Antiquities? Or modern, antiquarian, design? Will you go for a sculpture, a canvas, jewellery, chair or a book?
The Cry for Culture with which the Dutch cultural world launched its opposition to the scrapping of art subsidies in 2010 was, in retrospect, a publicity disaster. Perhaps not yet as unfortunate as
This was a possibility not many people initially thought of. After all, after her tropical years as director of the Amsterdam debating centre De Balie, Ellen Walraven was in need of some more substantive work and peace and quiet on her mind, So we suspected that she would stay on in
The Netherlands-Russia year is kicking off and what better way to start than with an exhibition dedicated to the most famous Russian of all time? At
Fransien van der Putt, dance expert from Culture Press, and Helen Westerik, film expert, attended the opening of Film Festival Cinedans and were amused, but not always by the programme.
The big story of the 2013 Oscars, of course, is how underdog Argo eventually surpassed initially-dead favourite Lincoln. When Sunday night Ben Affleck picked up the statuette for best film, he did so not as director but as producer. He wasn't even nominated for the Oscar for best director, and that comes with a film that...
It started with an email out of the blue. Artist Joncquil had Googled my website and was struck by the name. I myself had almost forgotten how I had ever come up with the name, Joy of Irony: a song by the legendary, highly underrated English noise/metal band Fudge Tunnel. Joncquil came to my site because of his expo at the time, Himmel und Joy. He had read some of my pieces and introduced himself. Maybe one day we could have coffee to talk a bit about art.
Thus it happened.
The Dutch Dance Audience Award 2012 was awarded on Saturday 9 February 2013 to the Belgian performance Et Après By Isabelle Beernaert. During the festive ceremony on the closing night of The Hague CaDance Festival, awards were also presented to
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