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Archives Wim Kan and Louis Davids not in dumpster

by Wijbrand Schaap
25 September 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The Theatre Museum's entire collection has been saved. The archives of such luminaries as Wim Kan and Louis Davids, as well as 50,000 theatre reviews, 30,000 theatre posters, 146,000 photographs of 22,000 performances, 26,000 portrait photographs of 2,450 theatre-makers and an extensive audio and video collection will be housed at the University of Amsterdam.The move is possible now that the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), with the ever-money-hungry State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra, is no longer seizing the reserves of the Theater Instituut Nederland (TIN).

'Pearls' at the Leiden Cloth Hall is a boundless experience

by Maarten Baanders
21 September 20128 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

'Pearls' is an exhibition with the limitlessness, fantasy and dreamlike vistas that come with a fairy tale. Associations with the pearl roll in all directions. Those who wander around in 'Pearls' forget for a moment everything to do with sober everyday reality. Pearls appear everywhere. The works of art accompanying this exhibition are scattered among the fixed...

Theatre Museum collection to be lost for good

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 June 201229 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

[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 the Theatre Institute of the Netherlands (TIN) is starting to take on very tragic proportions.

Thunder or a minor storm in the Gouda Glasses? You may say

by one of our members
9 January 201229 March 2022
10 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We received a letter on legs from Wim de Groot a while ago. Now we often get letters in paws, but here something seemed to be going on. Trouble of course because sorting it out takes time and money and that wasn't there for a while. (Look out for the donor campaign we are about to launch) But still. What's wrong with it? Wim de...

Austerity year review 2011. Or how the PVV cry 'Arts subsidies we abolish' was widely heard

by one of our members
28 December 20118 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

While 2010 was still the year of PVV positions on culture that were suddenly shared by other parties ("we are abolishing art subsidies"), the year 2011 fell under their implementation. What was striking was the ease with which regional and local administrators also wielded this same machete, as PVV spokesperson Bosma did not fail to testify. For instance, in the municipality of Almelo, 30 % went àff from...

Krabbendijke loses library, North Holland 'saves' youth theatre, while Brabant 30% cuts further on arts

by one of our members
15 December 201130 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The cut-away Metropole Orchestra is getting some air from the minister. She is willing to use the necessary friction costs to support the transition over the next four years from the Media Budget, provided it stays there. That is, the orchestra may use its own severance payments to be independently 'on the market' from 2017. As much as it shows...

Secretary of State excels in inanity as cultural cuts rumble on

by one of our members
9 December 201129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

On radio, the State Secretary for Culture and Education once again reiterated his position that when making cuts, it is good not to know one's field of activity . As an example, he did not know who the painter of "The Scream" is (Edvard Munch) and brought up a definition of culture as a "grab bag": "The beauty of culture is, that...

Enterprising young theatre makers, Meermanno meets revenue standard, Eindhoven accepts collection, Amsterdam supports cultural education, et al.

by one of our members
5 December 20118 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

Entrepreneurship is in young theatre-makers' blood (...) A new theatre circuit seems to have emerged in recent years. More and more young groups, such as Stichting Nieuwe Helden, PSTheater and Circus Treurdier, work relatively independently of subsidies and almost always outside the theatre building. They seek out their audiences anywhere, whether on the street, by a canal or in a...

Museums, Boxmeer theatre, IKON, ANP, regional broadcasters, impoverished library

by one of our members
29 November 20118 July 2016
7 min read
ACTUAL

MuseumgoudA not expelled MuseumgoudA may still remain a member of the Dutch Museum Association (NMV). A majority of the members were still of the opinion in September that the museum should be expelled because it had auctioned Marlene Dumas' The Schoolboys at the end of June without consulting other museums. That is against the NMV's rules. It did, however, decide to change the rules for the...

Friday the 25th. Bergen puts extra money into art, while new disasters emerge for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

by one of our members
25 November 20118 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL

Amsterdam - Mayor finds cuts to Rijksakademie "beyond comprehension" During the official opening of RijksakademieOPEN 2011, Mayor of Amsterdam Eberhard van der Laan expressed his concerns about the government's severe cuts to the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. "Cutbacks are necessary. Capitulating is not necessary. There are limits." The mayor stressed that a healthy art climate is important for...

Daily news: Sale in Rotterdam, protests in Amsterdam and an arts centre closes in the south

by one of our members
23 November 201130 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Culture sector signs agreement on youth pass Eight umbrella organisations in the culture sector signed a covenant on Wednesday advocating the continued existence, albeit in modified form, of the Culture Card. It should remain free, but will henceforth only give discounts on cultural outings. The 15-euro credit will disappear because the state will no longer provide subsidies. Instead, students in the...

Libraries hope for more digitisation as well as more readers of collection, after TNO study

by Madeleine Red
27 October 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

The joint public libraries in the Netherlands have asked TNO to research the size and costs of digital collections between 2012 and 2016. State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra is consulting with provinces and municipalities on amending library legislation. That law will also determine how much purchasing digital collection (e-books and music) costs. To...

Red Bull: the ideal power boost for languishing museums?

by one of our members
7 October 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

"If 1 person can prove that by collaborating with Red Bull, a sixteenth-century painting thins out or falls off the wall, I will stop working on it immediately." Edwin Jacobs, director of Centraal Museum Utrecht, opened his doors to the soft drink manufacturer. Under the title 'Art of Can', the museum is exhibiting artworks made from Red Bull cans. "Red Bull gives you wings,...

'Elitist' Wijlre Castle collection preserved for Limburg under fierce protest from PVV

by one of our members
2 October 201130 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

After 'saving' the Limburg Symphony Orchestra and securing a budget for the opera, the PVV had to once again explore the limits of its own opportunism. Indeed, the already disintegrated group was vehemently opposed to securing the unique private art collection of Wijlre Castle on the grounds that this collection of world-renowned artworks would not be understood by ordinary...

Even Lucebert no longer impresses

by Leo Bankersen
7 July 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

YXIE has been shot down. It may not be big national news, but it is yet another of those many harrowing examples that show how bleak the wind is blowing through the cultural landscape. YXIE, the word comes from the quiver of poet-painter Lucebert, one of the artists of the COBRA movement. It was also to become the name of a...

Theatre Institute Netherlands to continue as museum, perhaps in Arnhem

by Wijbrand Schaap
28 June 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

Clever, of course, but also perilous. Although - hanging over the abyss - there will be little else to do, but turn the TIN (Theatre Institute of the Netherlands) into a Performing Arts Museum. From 2013, because then the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science's money tap will close. In doing so, the institute will implement a rescue plan that will at least save the collection. Whether this will also save the...

Arts budget debated in second chamber: hardly any discussion on 200 million cut to performing arts

by one of our members
14 December 201030 March 2022
14 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We were at a debate day in The Hague that was as inconspicuous as it was historic on 13 December 2010: it was about the budget of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the (first?) Rutte government, and that was the budget in which, at the request of the supporting party PVV, the amount to be cut in the arts budget was set at 200 million, with heritage and museums having to...

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