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Catinka Kersten en Dick van Broekhuizen kijken toe bij de plaatsing (foto auteur)

Catinka Kersten in Images by the Sea - one year after academy

by Frans van Hilten
16 April 20154 November 2015
11 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL

Museum Beelden aan Zee placed a concrete sculpture by 26-year-old artist Catinka Kersten on the patio at the end of March: 'And everyone held their breath during that fraction of centuries'. It consists of five concrete human figures stacked on top of each other, which appear to be made of fabric. Kersten completed her studies at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague in 2013 with a series of hunting animals in plaster and cotton. The museum, with associated scientific institute and plaster library, is considered one of the figureheads of sculpture in the Netherlands. How did this museum come to choose such a young artist and what does inclusion in its collection mean for her?

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Culture Council sounds alarm: 29.5 million needed to preserve arts sector

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 April 201529 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

What is already going on on a small scale in Groningen, Enschede, Zaltbommel, Amersfoort, Gorinchem and Vlaardingen, is threatening to happen nationwide as well: cultural institutions falling over while politicians look on helplessly. According to the Council for Culture, the situation is alarming: 'Institutions are draining their own funds, cultural funds are maintaining schemes by drawing on reserves. We therefore make the urgent...

Five questions to Willem Jeths, Composer of the Fatherland

by Thea Derks
17 March 201530 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, MUSIC, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Willem Jeths (1959) is one of the most successful Dutch composers. Through his enormous craftsmanship and drive, he manages to create his own sound world, which is surprising yet accessible. His work is regularly performed at home and abroad and has appeared on many CDs. In 2014, he received the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts and later that year he was appointed

Top performance of rarely heard Sonata by Bartók

by one of our members
27 February 201530 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC

Ralph van Raat is by far the most important solo pianist in the contemporary repertoire in our country, fellow pianist Maarten van Veen pursues an idiosyncratic course in ensemble playing in modern music. When the two musicians work together, they prove to complement each other perfectly. Under the aegis of the Doelen Ensemble, they played together with percussionists Colin Currie and Benjamin Ramirez, for whom the same...

theater de nieuwe doelen in gorinchem

'Just badly fucked and hugely cunt': Gorinchem theatre director says goodbye in advance.

by Wijbrand Schaap
21 February 2015
2 min read
ACTUAL

Theatre De Nieuwe Doelen in Gorinchem will close its doors on 31 May, due to lack of support in local politics. The city council, which earlier also closed the music school, would like to continue using the building as a Village Hall for amateur artists. For professional theatre, a CDA party leader reported, those few enthusiasts can just go to Dordrecht. Theatre director Rob van Wijk...

Celtic & Balfolk festival: folk back on the big stage at Rotterdam's Doelen

by one of our members
19 February 201519 February 2015
5 min read
MUSIC

Barcelona, the old medieval Barriò at midnight, in the square where King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella welcomed Columbus after his return from his travels to America. In the Netherlands at the time, it was Queen's Day 2010. Four generations of people were dancing to the cheerful notes of a clarinet, a whistle, a violin and a simple drum. Until the wee hours of the morning, a...

Four reasons to go to Words & Beyond II: Nan Sul Hun

by Thea Derks
30 October 20147 October 2020
5 min read
DANS, MUSIC, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

After the world premiere of Words & Beyond II: Nan Sul Hun by Seung-Won Oh yesterday at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, the audience stood up as one to applaud Slagwerk Den Haag and the soloists. It was therefore a magical performance, which will be repeated at De Doelen in Rotterdam and at Theater aan de...

Orchestra finds name: the HET The Symphony Orchestra

by Henri Drost
20 September 201429 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

Hooray! We have a new name. Nederlands Symfonieorkest was not allowed, *****Orkest everyone thought was a joke and reverting to the perfect name Orkest van het Oosten is not possible, because loss of face. What then?

What's next for Rotterdam? 5 reasons why Simons will struggle

by Wijbrand Schaap
18 August 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

The great theatre maker Johan Simons has made it known that he wants to come to Rotterdam, to set up a major European theatre. He sees his chance now that a spot will become available in two years' time in the artistic direction of the Maasstad's city theatre company, the ro theatre. When they appoint Simons, they can think big, Simons says. And.

Ironing or hitting

by Thea Derks
2 May 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

It will be difficult to choose how we will musically fill our next weekend: will we stay in Amsterdam for the Amsterdam Marimba Weekend, or do we travel to The Hague, where Day in the Branding is devoted entirely to the string quartet? In short: are we going to string or strike? Those unable to choose can visit later this month at Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Slagwerk Den Haag - they just both do it!

4 reasons why the arts are going to lose a lot more. Municipal culture congress wrongly optimistic

by Wijbrand Schaap
31 January 201411 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

It was ball in Rotterdam on Thursday, 30 January. At the Municipal Culture Congress, a few hundred officials, local politicians and arts organisations gathered to talk about where they could help each other. It was supposed to be a positive day. There had been long enough complaining and arguing: look ahead, hopeful into the future. Even if the worst is yet to come.

43rd Rotterdam Film Festival celebrates 25 years of Hubert Bals Fund with opening film Qissa

by Leo Bankersen
23 January 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

9,000 euros was the amount with which Indian director Anup Singh's Qissa got off the ground a decade ago. That money came from the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) affiliated Hubert Bals Fund (HBF), which has been supporting filmmakers in developing countries for 25 years now. Last night, Qissa opened the 43rd edition of the Rotterdam festival. This makes the port city world capital for independent film for ten days, as business director Janneke Starink stated at the opening in the Doelen.

'Gay propaganda is not about homophily': Rotterdam backs Gergiev

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 December 201311 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

They were horrified by it. There in Rotterdam, at De Doelen. Because 'their' Valery Gergiev, former chief of the local orchestra and namesake of the prestigious festival that sometimes to be held in September, doesn't like gays. At least, that's what we all believed

Yannick Nézet-Séguin turns Rotterdam Doelen into a swirling sea of sound

by Henri Drost
15 September 201311 July 2016
4 min read
MUSIC, OPERA

In a letter to Franz Liszt in 1852, Wagner stressed that in his Der fliegende Holländer should be shown as realistically as possible, full of violent waves. One hundred and sixty years later, Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes that advice very much to heart in port city Rotterdam. Nothing about this Holländer ripples, from the first notes it storms, culminating in a third act at hurricane force, with a leading role for the Netherlands Opera choir.

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Legislation follows at an appropriate distance from technological developments

by Henri Drost
10 January 20138 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

What does a dissertation on a forgotten Victorian novelist have in common with a rushrelease from multinational Sony?

Gergiev Festival full of Sunday afternoon music

by one of our members
16 September 201229 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

What could be the matter with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival - the official name to emphasise its international appeal anyway? As soon as you enter concert hall de Doelen, you immediately get the feeling that you have arrived at an ordinary, weekday concert, even though Valeri Gergiev is on the posters. No decoration of the large rooms...

'Publicity after the show is more important than before'

by one of our members
20 June 201230 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

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
ACTUAL, For members only

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.

It's all the fault of "Roundabout Art"

by one of our members
7 June 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

You don't see Henk and Ingrid in theatres with subsidised theatre, so the VVD and PVV's hatred of the fine arts cannot be blamed on that, according to Hans Onno van den Berg, former director of the Association of Theatre and Concert Hall Directors.

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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've already had one episode on it, and it was obviously 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...

Dodo Holland Festival journal becomes Dodo Holland Festival Hangout #HF12

by one of our members
6 June 201213 February 2019
2 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

We've already had one episode on it, and it was obviously 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...

Henk Pröpper: 'Writers Unlimited has always opposed panting and short-term ambition.'

by one of our members
20 January 20128 July 2016
7 min read
SPECIALS

He is now a publisher, and the man who was director of the Dutch Foundation for Literature until last year will be quite happy with that. As director of the Bezige Bij, one of the country's largest publishing houses, he will surely never again have to submissively toast the sarcastic State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra. At least the relief was audible in Pröpper's...

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...

Cuts also take philanthropists too far, and music lessons become unaffordable, Kerkrade retains its theatre

by one of our members
21 November 201129 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

'Philanthropists cannot absorb cuts' (...) "Funds are less and less willing to just write a cheque. Owners want to be involved, contribute their expertise and measure impacts. They ask about the applicant's objective, how they intend to achieve it and whether it is measurable. (...) "On average, a fund disburses 4 per cent of its assets annually. So.

Progress news: Give Act no more for culture, Utrecht more expensive and Purmerend stops all subsidies

by one of our members
18 November 20118 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

Lower House approves Tax Plan 2012 (...) Furthermore, the adjusted Giving Act was also passed. The 7 million euro tax support shifts from cultural institutions to sports and music associations. Source: Belasting.nl 18 Nov 11 Utrecht - Culture may cost something - by Wouter de Heus (...) this week, when I finally saw the renewed operating plan for the Music Palace in...

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