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For the most convenient overview of our art, visit Schiedam

by Niek Hendrix
16 October 201329 March 2022
7 min read
For members only, IMAGING

I see a lot, but an exhibition that gives access to that contemporary art for outsiders is rarely among them. You have the Rijksmuseum with a nice overview of culture through the ages, but from 1900 onwards, the space for it becomes very small. So you don't know what's going on now. For that, you can go to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, which shows the world's best. If, however, you want a handy overview of what Dutch artists have created, the best place to go is Schiedam.

'Content creators' will unite globally

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 October 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Er wordt op internet veel geld verdiend met de verspreiding van tekst en muziek, nieuws, foto’s en films. Dat geld komt binnen bij internetproviders, diensten als Apple, Amazon, Netflix en Spotify en bij de grote platenmaatschappijen en filmproducenten, die vrijwel altijd ook aandeelhouder zijn van eerdergenoemde organisaties. Zo goed als niets van dat geld komt terecht bij de mensen die al die films, composities en boeken of artikelen maken.

Biodesign

Happy jerk or depressed bacteria? Biodesign is the future, according to William Myers

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
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What idiot could come up with that, wondered one of the attendees: that you can make electrical circuits by combining the DNA of an algae with that of a hamster? Just a question that comes to mind when walking around the exhibition Biodesign, on show in Rotterdam from 27 September to 5 January (2014). And then there's...

Les Nabis uit Hermitage Petersburg in volle glorie te zien aan de Amstel

by Madeleine Red
16 September 201311 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

In de grote zaal van de Hermitage Amsterdam is de muzieksalon van zakenman en kunstverzamelaar Ivan Morozov nagebouwd. De zaal waar normaal de topstukken van de exposities aan de Amstel hangen, laat nu zien hoe de muziekkamer van Morozovs Moskouse stadspaleis eruit zag. Met vleugel en al. Maar bovenal: met de wanddecoraties van Maurice Denis, die speciaal hiervoor opdracht had gekregen. Voor een keer hebben deze schilderingen de Hermitage verlaten, zodat ook St. Petersburg kan werken aan een zelfde reconstructie. De kans is klein dat ze St. Petersburg daarna nog verlaten.

Daan Roosegaarde for president? Alderman? Councillor?

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

Jet Bussemaker believes in Daan Roosegaarde. She confessed this on Sunday 1 September during the traditional Paradiso debate. She admired his courage to imagine the unthinkable and his drive to come up not with opinions but with proposals. Her message to the arts sector, again almost fully present in Paradiso, was clear: stop complaining, start doing something.

ellen edinoff

Dance pioneer Ellen Edinoff matured the dance world

by Ruben Brugman
19 July 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS

Dancer Ellen Edinoff died in her hometown of Amsterdam on Tuesday at the age of 70. Ellen, together with her husband Koert Stuyf, formed a unique dance couple in the 1960s-'70s that reactions in extremes. The Dutch dance world came of age partly thanks to them.

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Taking young talent into Europe: what the Reisopera and Ajax have in common

by Henri Drost
11 July 20138 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

Still competing at the top and successfully entering Europe with sixty per cent less budget. Impossible, cries many. Only with a new stadium, argues another. And with extra investments in the winter break. But it can be done, according to one and all.

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I Like To Watch Too is a must for keeping the performing arts in the Netherlands young and fresh

by Maarten Baanders
10 July 20138 July 2016
7 min read
ACTUAL

A man and a woman dance passionately in the hall of Paradiso. Such an experimental dance performance is unusual for the Amsterdam pop palace. Yet the festival I Like To Watch Too right here. Many people feel a barrier towards this kind of performance, but here there is just the right 'in and out' atmosphere to make avant-garde art something you can just look at and that always triggers something in you.

‘Dit was de plek waar de Koude Oorlog werd gevoerd’ Dennis Meyer over Festival De Basis

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 July 201330 March 2022
4 min read
SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

“Ik ben heel benieuwd naar de reacties van het publiek. Mensen hebben altijd een beeld bij een festival. Die komen, en verwachten dat ze van alles mee kunnen maken. Wat je hier krijgt is het terrein, een ontdekkingstocht en een verhaal dat daardoor naar boven komt. De belangrijkste energie die er op en om dit terrein heerst is: ‘Ik mag erop, en wat is er dan allemaal?’ Op die energie wil voortbouwen.”

I Like To Watch Too throws open doors to experimental dance

by Maarten Baanders
3 July 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Isn't avant garde dance too lofty? Is it still viable in these harsh cultural times? I Like To Watch Too aims to clear up this misunderstanding. The festival brings experimental dance closer to the public than ever.

Marie on a string: Anja Röttgerkamp stars as an unknown soldier in Gisèle Vienne's The Pyre @HollandFestival

by Fransien van der Putt
14 June 201330 March 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

'The Pyre', the latest show from internationally rising star Gisèle Vienne, initially seems less disturbing than her previous work. Pieces like 'Jerk' (2008), based on the true story of a young serial killer, and 'This is how you will disappear' (2010), starring a dark forest, were only seen in a few places in the Netherlands. Hopefully, this performance at the Holland Festival will change that. Gisèle Vienne once studied harp, then philosophy and eventually trained as a puppeteer. But Vienne sees herself primarily as a visual artist working with time, on a stage, where different rhythms, motifs and figures come together.

Read More "Marie on a string: Anja Röttgerkamp stars as an unknown soldier in Gisèle Vienne's The Pyre @HollandFestival

Things were well wrong with Halbe Zijlstra, Jet Bussemaker reveals

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 June 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

Jet Bussemaker, minister of culture since last autumn, is slowly but surely starting to repair the damage done by the previous cabinet supported by the Dutch culture-hating party PVV.

5 million back for culture card, 2 million for museums, something more soon

It's official: Bussemaker dist Council for Culture in battle for art-loving voter

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 June 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

We saw it in March already been coming, but now it is official: culture minister Jet Bussemaker is ignoring the Museum Advisory Board's advice. So the advisory panel led by Joop Daalmeijer has not done its homework properly: its idea

Culture minister Bussemaker promises investment in young artists

by Wijbrand Schaap
29 May 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

Today, the Dutch pavilion of the Venice Biennale was opened by culture minister Jet Bussemaker. And she did so with a speech that the culture sector will appreciate. No longer the harsh and chilly tone of Halbe Zijlstra's neo-conservative vacuousness, but a

Social media and art connect people, but Egypt stays away for a while #vvu

by Wijbrand Schaap
23 May 201330 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, SPECIALS, Treaty of Utrecht

Treaty of Utrecht

Experiments can sometimes have a different outcome than you hope for beforehand. The Community Arts Lab, through its Face to Face project, is now discovering that the world of the internet still has to deal with

For some artists, people are scary

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 May 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

As an art journalist, art makers give me VIP treatment: free tickets, separate counters, they say YOU to me and hang on my every word when I tell them something. That's a

Selection Theatre Festival 2013 marked by audience-friendly performances

by Wijbrand Schaap
11 May 201329 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

De Verleiders, last season's big theatre hit, heads the jury selection of The Theatre Festival 2013. The by a group of actors and cabaret artists, including Pierre Bokma and

NSB officer Tobie Goedewaagen and subsidies: the faulty founder of a good system

by Wijbrand Schaap
25 April 201330 March 2022
5 min read
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The Dutch system of art subsidies was set up in 1942 by NSB leader Tobie Goedewaagen, who also founded the Kultuurkamer. Typical of a fact that

Fiction in dance films, (how) does it work? Good question at festival Cinedans

by Fransien van der Putt
8 March 20138 July 2016
6 min read
DANS

Fransien van der Putt, together with choreographer and dance filmmaker Angelika Oei, saw five new Dutch dance films during Cinedans. Some of the results were promising. The films all transcended the level of visual gimmick. In its place is a struggle with fiction and physical credibility.

'A lot of art is too much about pleasing'

by Daniel Bertina
11 February 20138 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, IMAGING

It started with an email out of the blue. Artist Joncquil had Googled my website and was struck by the name. I myself had almost forgotten how I had ever come up with the name, Joy of Irony: a song by the legendary, highly underrated English noise/metal band Fudge Tunnel. Joncquil came to my site because of his expo at the time, Himmel und Joy. He had read some of my pieces and introduced himself. Maybe one day we could have coffee to talk a bit about art.

Thus it happened.

'Anti-Greek' facade banner Theatre Frog destroyed after protests

by one of our members
12 January 201330 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

We received this via Facebook: "During the night of Friday 11 to Saturday 12 January at 1.30am, a group of about seven young men destroyed a large canvas hanging on the facade of Theatre Kikker on the Ganzenmarkt in Utrecht. The canvas, which

Disbanded Tilburg dance innovators go into fitness for parkinson's patients

by one of our members
26 December 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Sat another note in the post. One of many, these weeks. About a club that had only just been set up by the government. With the accompanying millions, which because of the PVV's vindictiveness have now been dumped in the local ditch. Its creators have already found a new purpose for themselves a few months ago: to improve the well-being of Parkinson's patients. But Dance House Station South is now thus a thing of the past. We quote:

Rutte 2: No real recovery holes, but different tone

by one of our members
29 October 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

There it is: the coalition agreement of the new cabinet of the man who previously managed to associate the terms 'subisidy slave' and 'empty halls' with the fine arts. The tone is different now, and we owe that to the input of the PvdA, just as earlier we apparently owed the sneering tone to Martin Bosma's PVV.

If you don't have Twitter in Egypt. Community Arts 'Mahatat' works from the bottom up. #vvu

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 October 20128 July 2016
4 min read
SPECIALS

De overheid heeft de laatste decennia weinig moeite gedaan om in het Egyptische Damietta een culturele scene van de grond te krijgen. Er zijn geen werkruimtes. Geen galeries. Alleen een hele grote bibliotheek en een “cultuurpaleis”. Die zijn beide pas vijf jaar geleden geopend. Daarnaast zijn er een paar kleine onafhankelijke initiatieven. In de openbare ruimte.

Read More "If you don't have Twitter in Egypt. Community Arts 'Mahatat' works from the bottom up. #vvu

Netherlands closes a special embassy

by Wijbrand Schaap
4 October 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

This week, the curtain officially fell on the Theatre Emabassy, a club of inspired people who had Dutch artists collaborate with artists in developing countries such as Honduras, Bhutan and Congo. The resulting performances were only sporadically seen in the Netherlands, but every now and then a project made a broad impression here too, such as a 'On Hope of Blessing', played by real fishermen, but from Mali.

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