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Museum Belvedere: 'Floods in Pakistan, forest fires in Moscow, a cabinet tolerated by Wilders. How lousy can a landscape be?'

by one of our members
24 August 201030 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Olphaert den Otter, De Buitenplaats, 2010, eitempera op doek/paneel, 112 x 210 cm ‘In dit museum hemelen we het landschap zo vaak op, dat we nu eens de destructie, de ontreddering en de dreigende verandering van het landschap wilden laten zien.’ Volgens Han Steenbruggen, directeur van Museum Belvedere in Heerenveen-Oranjewoud, werd het tijd voor expositie die toont wat oorlog, natuurrampen…

De Keersemaeker sinks through the bottom of what is still dance in '3Abschied'

by Maarten Baanders
13 June 201030 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, SPECIALS

Text Maarten Baanders (photo Herman Sorgeloos) After sensory labour had already been reduced to a minimum in Keeping Still - Part I and The Song, dance philosopher Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker confronts the most extreme reduction possible in life in the final part of the trilogy, 3Abschied: death. Her choice of music strikes again Der...

High praise for Curlew River; less for De Keersemaeker and Mendes #hf10

by one of our members
5 June 201030 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Curlew River Photo: Bertrand Stofleth For every independent journalist in the Netherlands, there are about 15 information officers. It is therefore obvious that these spokespeople largely determine the image in the media. Could that be why in the newspapers and television programmes surrounding the Holland Festival, the announcements are far more numerous than the critical reviews? A look at the...