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Bussemaker: 'Encouraging our culture to add value to society'

Of course it is ok, that cultural and creative summit we had here. Bussemaker could suddenly talk at a high level again and art suddenly appears to matter again. After all, the creative industry is also about art again. Even if it is just our old art, because at such a conference with those Asian countries, of course, it is usually about... 

Belgium beware: artists defending subsidies. You can do better.

With a new government in Belgium, the debate on art subsidies has also erupted there. The issue there is only 0.7 per cent of the national budget. The cut of a mere 10% is less substantial than in the Netherlands under the PVV's noose, but the arguments are the same. Though they are often better articulated. Josse de Pauw, international... 

Joop Daalmeijer Marathon (3): "The arts sector should have reached out to consumers"

Wijbrand Schaap: 'There has been much talk about the change in Council attitudes under your leadership. After the confrontation course under your predecessor Els Swaab, you seemed appointed by Halbe Zijlstra to act as a kind of applause machine.' Joop Daalmeijer: 'I was not hired by Halbe Zijlstra, I was appointed by the queen. Isn't that nice?... 

Joop Daalmeijer Marathon (2): 'So that caution is not always necessary.'

Wijbrand Schaap: 'When it comes to talent development and embedding in society, it also has a lot to do with the absolute basics. It also touches on the minister's two functions: education and culture. Arts education in primary schools does not really help embedding. No attention has been paid to art in the pedagogical academies for years.... 

Municipalities pass on most cuts to the arts

De bezuinigingen op cultuur zijn inmiddels opgelopen tot 450 miljoen euro. De Tweede Kamer besloot eerder tot kortingen van 200 miljoen. Het snijden in het gemeentebudget door diezelfde Tweede Kamer leidt nu tot een verdere bezuiniging van 250 miljoen euro. Dit becijfert onderzoeksbureau Berenschot in een rapport dat op donderdag 30 januari in Rotterdam wordt gepresenteerd.

Lower chamber talked about art. We followed the debate for you

We kept a liveblog. Nice and old-fashioned, from the days when every month there was uproar somewhere about the government's handling of art. Now there is peace in the tent, as the PVV sardonically points out, because 'The Left' is now the bearer of policies devised by the PVV. The PVV predicts a black future for 'The Left' once the PVV comes to power.

Daan Roosegaarde for president? Alderman? Councillor?

Jet Bussemaker gelooft in Daan Roosegaarde. Dat bekende zij zondag 1 september tijdens het traditionele Paradiso debate. Ze bewondert zijn moed om het het ondenkbare te bedenken en zijn gedrevenheid om niet met opinies te komen, maar met voorstellen. Haar boodschap aan de kunstsector, wederom bijna voltallig aanwezig in Paradiso, was helder: hou op met klagen, ga wat doen.

Saving Tropenmuseum paid for from art acquisition budget

Het Tropenmuseum is gered, dat wisten we al, maar de Tweede Kamer wilde nog weten waar dat uit betaald werd. Immers: meer geld gaat de overheid niet uitgeven, dat moeten wij doen. Enfin. Uit de beantwoording van de kamervragen door cultuurminister Jet Bussemaker blijkt dat de musea in ieder geval in 2016 5,5 miljoen minder uit kunnen geven aan kunstaankopen.… 

Are we saying 'No' to EU culture money again?

Als Nederland consequent volhardt in eerder ingenomen PVV-standpunten, zegt de tweede kamer op 21 november 2012 ‘Nee’ tegen een Europese investering in cultuur, innovatie en media. Als het huidige kabinet Rutte echter vasthoudt aan de pro-Europese houding die in het regeerakkoord is opgenomen, staakt Nederland zijn verzet tegen de bijdrage van 1,8 miljard euro aan versterking van cultuur, die inmiddels door alle andere Europese lidstaten is goedgekeurd.

Baldwin Live

On Wednesday 1 August 2012, the Performing Arts Fund will announce the results of the lottery that granting arts subsidies has now become. Huge cuts are looming: companies and creators that by now seemed to be a permanent part of the Dutch arts landscape will disappear. Exactly what it will look like, we know

Prijs van acteurs voor met opheffing bedreigd Theaterinstituut

Post van Acteursbelangen, de acteurs’vakbond’. Of we ons aan het embargo willen houden. Naturlijk doen wij  dat. Wij wel. Maarreh: het door Halbe Zijlstra samen met het Muziekcentrum Nederland op te heffen Theater Instituut Nederland krijgt dus een prijs.  En dat schijnt een sculptuur te zijn, waarvan wij ons dan weer afvragen waar dat ding na 1 januari 2013 moet… 

Nog 8,5 miljoen nodig om Cultuurkaart op oude niveau terug te krijgen

De cultuurkaart is gered. Dat is prachtig nieuws, zo kort na de keiharde klap in het gezicht van de schoolgaande jongeren van Nederland die het nu demissionaire kabinet in 2011 uitdeelde. Op oneigenlijke gronden, zoals de Algemene Rekenkamer aantoonde, schrapten de onderhandelaars van PVV, CDA en VVD al tijdens de formatie deze mogelijkheid voor scholieren om tegen sterke kortingen kennis… 

Subsidy was not invented by the Nazis, they did embrace it

Apartheid activist Martin Bosma started talking about it during one of his many hilarious appearances in the second chamber, but, as is often the case, was wrong. He said art subsidies were an invention of the Nazis and therefore pernicious. We knew better, because researcher Benien van Berkel is thorough and deals with facts. From her doctoral research... 

Zijlstra onderzoekt ‘worteling’ buitenlandse kunststudenten

Aan Nederlandse kunstvakopleidingen studeren veel studenten die niet uit Nederland komen. Op verzoek van PVV, gesteund door regeringspartijen VVD en CDA, zoekt staatssecretaris van Cultuur Zijlstra nu uit of er wel genoeg van die studenten na hun studie ook in Nederland aan het werk gaan. Deze toezegging deed Halbe Zijlstra tijdens een algemeen overleg over het sectorplan voor het Kunstvakonderwijs,… 

Arts colleges hopelessly divided

It was a 'roundtable discussion', so that is extremely informal. Lower house members of the ministry of OCW's 'lead committee' listen to people from the field. In this case, all people involved in, or leading, arts education. It was an awkward meeting.

Benefit Giving Act, cultural budgets, Brabant, Amsterdam, Arnhem, Eindhoven, Goes, Utrecht et al.

Tax benefits to be gained this year (...) With effect from 2012, under the new Giving Act, there is an additional tax facility for donations (incidental or via periodic donations) to charitable institutions (non-profit organisations) designated as cultural institutions. Those cultural donations may be multiplied by a factor of 125 per cent for the gift deduction. This... 

A'dam: big loss of art subsidies, fact-free politics at art colleges, sacred museum collections, N-H halts small cultural education, culture in abandoned railway station

'Amsterdam loses 127 million arts subsidy' (...) The 127.1 million euros is a sum of cuts from the state (70 million), the increase in VAT to 19% (45.6 million) and the announced municipal cuts to the 2013-2016 Arts Plan of 8 million annually. In addition, the so-called ID jobs (subsidised jobs) are being phased out more quickly. This will give Amsterdam's arts and cultural institutions another... 

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

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.

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... 

Fransche School in jeopardy, blind library closed, nibbling on VAT measure via CJP and Volkenkunde/Tropen Institute merger possible

Arnhem - Scepticism over success of cultural heart Rijnboog Arnhem city council has many doubts about the financial feasibility of the Rijnboog arts cluster. (...) [Alderman] assumes 16 million subsidy from the province and another 4 million in contributions from sponsors for the new arts centre containing the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, the Schouwburg and Focus Filmtheater.... 

Halbe Zijltra loves his job more than the ministry dares to show

That Martin Bosma, culture spokesman for the PVV, wants to withdraw the subsidy to Toneelgroep Amsterdam because that company plays works by 'enemy of the people' Tom Lanoye, was not even the most bizarre incident of the culture budget debate on 21 November 2011. More bizarre, too, than the PVV's demand for the establishment of a Colonial Museum celebrating the glory of 'Our Indies',... 

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

Tweede Kamer stemt in met Belastingplan 2012 (..) Verder werd ook de aangepast Geefwet aangenomen. De 7 miljoen euro fiscale steun verschuift van culturele instellingen naar sport- en muziekverenigingen. Bron: Belasting.nl    18 nov 11   Utrecht – Cultuur mag wat kosten – door Wouter de Heus (..) toen ik deze week eindelijk de hernieuwde exploitatieopzet van het Muziekpaleis in… 

We are going Liveblogging again! Monday, November 21, to be exact.

Maandag 21 november heeft de kamer nog één kans om de woestijnvorming in de Nederlandse cultuur een halt toe te roepen. De onevenredig grote aanslag op de budgetten voor muziekscholen, orkesten, theatergroepen en tekenles wordt dan immers besproken door de kamer. Het gebeurt allemaal in de Groen van Prinstererzaal in het Tweede Kamer-gebouw, en het wordt vanzelfsprekend uitgezonden op het… 

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