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Forget Jinek. The conversation about art can go to a new dimension: blab.im at #wu16

On Friday 15 January, we conducted a first experiment with the platform 'blab.im'. During festival Winternachten, we reported live, via the internet. We did so in English, because most of the viewers we had were English-speaking. We could see that. That is already the most striking difference between something like Blab.im, and ordinary television. Blab.im in the Netherlands is still... 

In the theatre, all fear disappears

Ik heb even getwijfeld of ik wel verslag zou doen van de theaterworkshop die maandag 9 november, in het kader van Dancing on the Edge, door Koon Theatre aan Syrische vluchtelingen werd aangeboden. Tijdens de workshop bereiden de vluchtelingen een korte presentatie voor die vrijdag 13 november, voorafgaand aan de theatervoorstelling Above Zero, in Stadsschouwburg Utrecht wordt getoond. De reden… 

Rik Wouters, Autumn, 1913, 135 x 140 cm, Oil on canvas, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp ©Lukasart in Flanders

Belgian colour on Dutch cheeks - 7 reasons why you should visit 'Colour Unleashed' soon

Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong time. Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in the period when modern art was born? Then I correct myself: no, there were many problems and uncertainties back then too. But the new exhibition Colour Unleashed at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag makes me hesitate again. Because the exhibited... 

World Press Photo wants to start selling photos. To help photographers.

Een betere plek om persfoto’s te vertonen dan een kerk is er eigenlijk niet. Tenminste, zolang het zo’n Nederlandse kerk als die in Naarden is. Witgepleisterde muren, geen afleidende beelden en schilderingen. En dan toch die gewijde sfeer die een beetje hoort bij wat al die winnaars van World Press Photo 2015 uitbeelden: verschrikkelijke verhalen, glorieuze overwinningen en mysteries die… 

Belangrijke voorstellingen nu integraal te zien op Theaterencyclopedie

Kijken naar Wie is bang voor Virginia Woolf? van de Nederlandse Comedie in 1964, of Live, het videoballet door Het Nationale Ballet uit 1979. Dat kan nu bij de Theaterencyclopedie. Dankzij de crowdfundingsactie Zijn/Niet Zijn. De Theaterencyclopedie wilde al een tijdlang video’s van een aantal kroonjuwelen uit Nederlandse theatervoorstellingen op het internet plaatsen. Daar is nu een mooi begin mee gemaakt. Via een Voordekunst-actie is zelfs meer geld… 

Van Hove's 'Kings of War' is an intriguing trip

Power and leadership, can one exist without the other? Toneelgroep Amsterdam presented a sampling of three types of leaders on Sunday 14 June at the Holland Festival with 'Kings of War'. Three historical plays by Shakespeare about the struggle for power between the Houses of Lancaster and York together provided the fuel for this performance. With large black letters on a white... 

Letter Bussemaker: butts in seats or artistic recognition?

Minister Jet Bussemaker's letter will keep tongues wagging for a long time to come. There are considerable gaps here and there between the Culture Council's advice and the minister's letter. Also in the field of film and media. A list of differences. Bussemaker notes that the film sector is changing considerably. Media consumption is changing due to the rapid rise... 

Zeros, ones and the public; what is digital art?

The new format of the Holland festival puts the spectator first. Plenty of visible events, free performances and being in the middle of the city. It's director Ruth McKenzie's trademark. It is therefore not surprising that she does not shy away from the digital universe. After all, what better way to share than digital art? But what then is digital art... 

Amersfoort library realignment a success

Libraries are mostly negative in the news. Branches have to close, members walk away and there is an ongoing debate about their right to exist. But in Amersfoort, the library is on the rise. Over the past year, visitor numbers have risen sharply. An advance confession: I am a nostalgic library visitor. As a little boy, I used to borrow The Shipboys of Bontekoe, Eagle's Eye and... 

Christian Hornsleth makes debut in Amsterdam

Hornsleth in Amsterdam: 'If they don't get the joke, fuck them.'

Christian von Hornsleth is exhibiting in Amsterdam, and there was an immediate small riot. An organisation that raises money against trafficking in women no longer wanted to receive a contribution from the proceeds of his exhibition in Amsterdam, because the artist, whose conceptual work often features porn images, would actually be an advocate of prostitution. Something Hornsleth himself vehemently denies. The... 

Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images. Image editing: Kay Schuttel

Academy of Arts: core fusion of art and science

Bring 50 distinguished and cross-disciplinary artists together and things will crackle tremendously. That will be the thinking behind the new Academy of Arts. The installation of 16 new, high-profile members already gave a taste of this. Actor Gijs Scholten van Aschat (board member) and visual artist Barbara Visser (president) expressed themselves a little cautiously a while ago about what the Akademie... 

Signs of Life: fotografische ode aan bermmonumenten

Bermmonumenten maken het onverwachts en gewelddadig toeslaan van de dood zichtbaar. Meestal langs de openbare weg maar soms ook op meer afgelegen plekken. De Amersfoortse fotograaf Jeroen Hansen fotografeerde er de afgelopen jaren honderden, met het onlangs verschenen fotoboek Signs of Life als resultaat. Een bosje bloemen vastgebonden op een ingedeukte vangrail. Kaarsen, foto´s of een teddybeertje bij een scherpe… 

Voice artist Cathy Berberian was NOT 'the wife of...'

American-Italian voice artist Cathy Berberian (1925-1983) has gone down in history as 'the wife of Luciano Berio', the Italian composer with whom she realised such high-profile pieces as Circles, Sequenza III, Recital I for Cathy and Thema, Omaggio a Joyce. Yet they were married for only 14 years, from 1950 to 1964. Moreover, it is widely known that she had a large compositional share 

Thanks to fixed book price law, no handcuffs gift at fifty shades of grey

A few months ago, the Council for Culture advised Minister Bussemaker to maintain the law on fixed book prices. And that while the functioning of the law has not been proven at all. For enterprising booksellers, this law is a block. This law earned erotic department store Christine le Duc a €15,000 fine. They came up with a playful... 

World Broadcasting Archive next victim of cuts

Radio Netherlands World Broadcasting no longer exists. The subsidy was withdrawn because no one in the VVD knew what it was: shortwave. And because the PVV, which was also in government at the time, finds everything scary that contains the word 'world'. Bad for those who miss calls from the ANWB emergency centre at breakfast for the Alpenkreuzer, even worse for... 

Kees 't Hart pontificates on literary Holland

'Do you not agree with me that many of you - like members of Roman Catholic curia - are already trying to make yourselves immortal and indispensable? That you are suffering from severe mental and spiritual petrification?' Kees 't Hart measured himself a papal role on Sunday 18 January, when delivering The State of Dutch Literature,... 

2015 is not left: 5 reasons why art is becoming more exclusive

Art ends its 70th anniversary as a 'Leftist Hobby' in 2015. There is not much more to predict for this year. Art goes back to the bourgeois status it held since the start of the industrial revolution. 1: Art was never left Art, of course, has never been 'left'. Subsidy may have come from the thinking tubes of social and Christian democrats, but art an sich... 

10 viral stories from Culture Press for 235,000 real readers

Altijd met het goede nieuws beginnen. De afdeling voorlichting van het ministerie van OCW heeft in 2014 heel erg goed haar best gedaan. Het ene juichpersbericht na het andere jubelcommuniqué stuurden ze de wereld in. Terwijl er eigenlijk nauwelijks goed nieuws te melden was. Over cultuur. Maar omdat er heel veel luie journalisten zijn, gaat goed nieuws vaak in een… 

Mangaschrijver schildert op goud. Is Yoshiyasu Tamura een nieuwe hit of speeltje van de rijken?

Drie keer bellen. Dat helpt dus. Als je een expositie aan de man te brengen hebt, midden in de Grachtengordel. Volgens de pr-medewerker was geen  serieus medium in de expositie geïnteresseerd. Nou hebben die kunstredacties het al moeilijk genoeg, dus als iets niet te zien is in een van de usual places, zal een journalist van De Volkskrant niet snel… 

Google en facebook nemen rol galerieën, uitgeverijen en impresariaten over

Voor de meeste kunstenaars is het een ideaal. Vertegenwoordigd worden door een galerie. Schrijvers hebben hun zinnen gezet op een contract bij een uitgeverij. Muzikanten kijken verlekkerd naar labels en theatermakers staan in de rij voor een impresariaat. Makers hebben een haat-liefde verhouding met zulke bemiddelaars. Want hoewel de gemiddelde creatieve professional wel een teen zou willen missen in ruil… 

Monsterverbond op de markt voor online muziek en entertainment

Vice kennen we allemaal al. Het is de schrik van ieder al dan niet online medium dat zich op jongerencultuur richt, want met een wereldwijd netwerk en flink wat Amerikaanse dollars is het geen beginnen aan om daar iets naast te zetten. Live Nation kennen we ook al. Als je tenminste weleens een concert bezoekt is de kans groot dat… 

De Speechdokter recenseert: Hans de Zwart van Bits of Freedom

“ Beste vrienden van Vrije Kennis,” Met deze woorden besluit de voorzitter van Wikimedia Nederland, Frans Grijzenhout zijn welkomspraatje van de Wikipedia conferentie. In een conferentieoord op Hoog-Catharijne word ik omringd door zo’n 120 ‘ Wikipedianen’, zoals ze zichzelf noemen. Zoals in iedere subcultuur is duidelijk te zien wie er tot de vaste incrowd behoort. Wikipedianen zien er uit alsof… 

Grindr experiment in Berlin discontinued. Artist meets boundaries 'theatre of experience'

Forty roofless hotel rooms, and then hearing your own story back as you see yourself reflected in the distant ceiling. Or: walking behind a guide through the Lombok district of Utrecht, while being provided with an overload of extra information on your headphones. About your guide. Or not. About yourself. Welcome to the universe of Dries Verhoeven, since a small... 

Prince makes five-star record and hides it from Warner

Two new records in one day? Thirty years after Purple Rain? That involuntarily evokes memories of the days of Guns 'n Roses and Bruce Springsteen in the early 1990s. Back then, Prince was still under contract to Warner, but his quarrels with that company were notorious. Four records in a single year went way too far for Warner at the time, as did triple albums.... 

'Art only exists if it is written about.'

At the presentation at the Netherlands Film Festival of the Louis Hartlooper Prize for Film Journalism will not be handed a Golden Calf, but a Black Mirror. In ancient times a tool for viewing, now a token of appreciation for a contribution to written film culture.

Members of various film trade associations will designate the winner. Some believe there is no such thing,

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