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What idiot could come up with that, wondered one of the attendees: that you can make electrical circuits by combining the DNA of an algae with that of a hamster? Just a question that comes to mind when walking around the exhibition Biodesign, on show in Rotterdam from 27 September to 5 January (2014). And then there's...
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.
Een moeilijke keus kan het niet geweest zijn. De speelfilm Borgman van Alex van Warmerdam was eerder dit jaar al doorgedrongen tot de competitie van Cannes. Nu is deze donkere, wrang-komische thriller uitgekozen als Nederlandse inzending voor de 86e Academy Awards (de Oscars) in
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.
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.
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.
This month, Reinbert de Leeuw celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday. Not only do television, radio, internet media and written press devote extensive attention to the no small achievements of this champion of contemporary music, but he is also being honoured with his own festival, 'Reinbert 75'. This will be organised
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.
"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.
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.’
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:
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
From facebook gesponst: those who wondered why there was art again. Or why it costs money. Those people are there .
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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.
Festival Boulevard in Den Bosch sold 55,000 tickets this year, 5,000 less than in 2012. The festival, which this year was held from 1 to 11 August, did attract more crowds for the free offerings on the festival square. This brought the total number of visitors to the festival this year to 145,000, 5,000 more than in 2012. As the venue occupancy is still nice at 85%, the drop in ticket sales will mainly be due to a smaller offer of performances.
We are far from having all the info, but we have enough by now: the Bureau Promotie Podiumkunsten (BPP), funded by the Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Managements, is quitting as of 1 October. Reason unknown, but surely the malaise in the cultural sector, and especially the performing arts, will have something to do with it.
'Eutopia comes from the Greek and means as much as 'Good place'. With this installation, I want to make people think about what that is: a good place.' Architect and visual artist Filip Berte worked on his 'Good Place' for seven years and the result can now be seen in Utrecht's Zijdebalen Theatre.
Dancer Ellen Edinoff died in her hometown of Amsterdam on Tuesday at the age of 70. Ellen, together with her husband Koert Stuyf, formed a unique dance couple in the 1960s-'70s that reactions in extremes. The Dutch dance world came of age partly thanks to them.
Despite the crisis, parents invest eagerly and heavily in their offspring's musical development. This is the finding of the Utrecht Centre for the Arts (UCK). Their talent development programmes are running well. "Parents now choose to spend money on this more consciously than ever. They also come along to lessons more often and let their children start at an increasingly younger age," says cello teacher Floris Dercksen.
Young choreographers Cecilia Moisio, Giulio d'Anna and Melissa Ellberger have been nominated for the Prize of the Nederlandse Dansdagen Maastricht 2013.
Al meer dan tien jaar tobt het Alkmaarse filmtheater en podium Provadja – een van de oudste Nederlandse filmhuizen – met een veel te krappe behuizing. Al meer dan tien jaar zijn er plannen gemaakt en gisteravond stemde de gemeenteraad over de herhuisvesting. En koos daarmee voor een optie die bestuur, medewerkers en vrijwilligers van Provadja al categorisch hadden afgewezen. Namelijk
Isn't avant garde dance too lofty? Is it still viable in these harsh cultural times? I Like To Watch Too aims to clear up this misunderstanding. The festival brings experimental dance closer to the public than ever.
"Let's move on people! I would like to introduce you to Frans van Montfoort. One of the very first buskers in old Hoog Catharijne and almost a living statue." Guide Ton van den Berg, today in the guise of his alter ego Koos Marsman, slaps Van Montfoort on the shoulder. "Good to see you again boy."
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