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architecture

Oudolf's sturdy sprites replace floating trestles in Rotterdam harbour

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

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.

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House of Eutopia: haunted house of an ideal society

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 July 201329 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, Treaty of Utrecht

'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.

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L.A. Dance project at @hollandfestival: falling in love with dance, if only for an evening

by Ruben Brugman
3 June 20138 July 2016
3 min read
DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

Benjamin Millepied is a glamour boy who conquers everything in his path: from actress Natalie Portman to the Paris Opera ballet. In reality, after the premiere in Amsterdam, the Frenchman looks like a

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Art for all: €3 per person, per month

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 October 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The discussion was and is endless, but now we have figures. Thanks to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science's new 'key figures', we now know how much the state (all of us) are spending for the opportunity to experience art: per inhabitant, the state spends 38.90 per year on subsidies for dance, theatre, museums, youth theatre, opera and orchestras. So that's just over 3 euros a month. Indeed something to get into each other's hair about, we think.

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EYE on the IJ - a spaceship with allure

by Leo Bankersen
4 April 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Tonight the queen may officially open the new home of the EYE Film Institute Netherlands, last night director Sandra den Hamer did it herself in advance at an opening party for relations. In doing so, she spoke of a historic moment for film culture in the Netherlands. Seen from a distance, the building, conveniently referred to as "the new film museum", is most reminiscent of a...

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Dutch Film Festival - Three uncompromising auteur films

by Leo Bankersen
25 September 201130 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, FILM

The Netherlands Film Festival is only halfway through, but let's list three notable premieres anyway. Three films that may not be big crowd pleasers, but three uncompromising auteur films that bear witness to a vision that goes beyond entertaining storytelling. Three films that have also received attention abroad...

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Craft 'blob' by Atelier van Lieshout awaits buyer among 'country houses'

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 January 20118 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Country houses will surround it, but in the middle there will be something completely different: a real "sculptural dwelling" by Atelier van Lieshout. With a price tag of a million euros, the house is not a cheap work of art either, but then you have something that the whole world comes to see. Less original than his recently erected one in Rotterdam...

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