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Europe

Nu het geld nog. 2 problemen en slechts anderhalve oplossing in de nieuwe auteurswet.

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 November 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PERSONAL

Moet de vrije markt aan banden worden gelegd om de Nederlandse cultuur te redden? De kwestie waar de Nederlandse overheid voor staat is nogal een grote. Dinsdag presenteerden de Nederlandse ‘makers’ (kunstenaars, fotografen, acteurs, scenarioschrijvers, vertalers, regisseurs, freelance journalisten enz.) een pamflet. Het pamflet schetst de idiote situatie waarin de Nederlandse culturele en creatieve sector verkeert. Geen ander land miskent…

The Eastern Bloc Book. An indispensable travel book for a vanished empire

by Wijbrand Schaap
6 November 201429 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, LITERARY

So it really does exist. A high road through the mountains of Romania. Completed in 1974. Viewed by my father in the same year, while his 'guide' told him not to walk too close to the edge, because he would not be the first to crash over the edge. After which his 'guide', the secret agent that every western journalist...

Sallie Harmsen and Joris Smit in Tasso (photo Kurt van der Elst)

Drama about art: to do or not to do? Ivo van Hove and Sallie Harmsen think so.

by Frans van Hilten
28 October 201429 March 2022
9 min read
For members only, THEATER

The National Theatre will premiere Blueprint for an Even Better Life on 8 November 2014, which addresses, among other things, the position of artists in society. A theme that also featured in their recent Tasso, and in Toneelgroep Amsterdam's successful The Fountainhead. Is the subject of art back on the theatre agenda due to the changed cultural politics of the past...

2600 visitors for Supernova, couldn't be better? A tough issue in 7 scenes

by Leo Bankersen
2 October 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, FILM

Scene 1 - Expectations The main hall of film theatre 't Hoogt was filled with people from the film sector on Wednesday afternoon at the invitation of the Film Fund. The subject of the meeting is the chronically low attendance of more artistic Dutch films. This has been the case for a long time, by the way, and not only in the Netherlands. Should new avenues be explored? Should expectations be...

Photo: Anne Bonthuis

Anti-racist artwork 'Exhibit B' cancelled under pressure from anti-racists

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 September 201430 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, IMAGING

23,000 signatures and a host of public meetings have caused Brett Bailey's impressive Exhibit B in London to be cancelled. The show, or rather, the event, has previously been seen with great success in the Netherlands, and garnered nothing but praise in Edinburgh too. We too went to see it, and we were impressed. In...

Debating reviews is pointless. Readers are perfectly capable of judging for themselves.

by Wijbrand Schaap
2 September 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

Art has rapidly become unimportant. Artists have been effectively dismissed by populists as subsidy-addicted scum. Media leaves no opportunity to downplay the consequences of the cuts that followed. Putin is about to bring a third world war to Europe. In Amsterdam on Saturday, September 6, three of the Netherlands' last daily newspaper critics talk to artists about...

Melle Daamen on @culturepress: 6 reasons why the arts debate in the Netherlands is so laborious.

by one of our members
30 August 201430 March 2022
10 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

I published two articles in NRC Handelsblad last year. The first (6 July 2013) was critical of government policy. There was little reaction to this. The second article (7 December 2013) was critical of the arts sector: it needs to make its own sharp choices. That did cause a stir, although I am convinced that many colleagues largely agree with the content...

A mirror from the bench: 12 much-needed lessons for cultural marketers

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 August 201411 July 2016
6 min read
ACTUAL

Since the Amsterdam Uitmarkt is no longer run by the Uitburo but by a separate foundation, things have become a tad more commercial. The folder-fair-with-bands that has become the national opening of the cultural season over the past decades has to. The government has found art scary for a while now, usual suspects are pulling out as sponsors, and malaise is hitting...

Newspapers kick in massive 'research' into more expensive cultural outings.

by Henri Drost
26 August 201429 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

This is startling. On Friday, De Volkskrant reported that prices for cultural activities in Amsterdam have risen by a whopping 37.3% since 2009. Nu.nl picks it up immediately, soon followed by TROS Radar. Then it must be true. The news taken over unquestioningly by everyone refers to a report on the BBC site. That post...

Hoe moet het nu verder met Rotterdam? 5 redenen waarom Simons het moeilijk krijgt

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

De grote theatermaker Johan Simons heeft laten weten dat hij naar Rotterdam wil komen, om een groot Europees theater op te zetten. Hij ziet zijn kans schoon nu er over twee jaar een plek vrijkomt in de artistieke leiding van het stadsgezelschap van de Maasstad, het ro theater. Wanneer ze Simons aanstellen, kan er groots gedacht worden, zegt Simons. En…

Working for free has become commonplace in the arts. 4 bare facts by festival director Meulman

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 July 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

'The practice of payment by book voucher does not belong to a professional sector with substantial economic importance.' Jeffrey Meulman, director of the Dutch theatre festival, has learned to live with it. Against his will. As host of the annual Gala of Dutch Theatre, he has managed to organise that party again. Without money.

'Less progress!" shouts the festival. DEAF finds the future a bit scary this time.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 May 201411 July 2016
3 min read
IMAGING

We are all a little afraid of losing control. So we are reluctant to like 'Europe', we are frightened by the unprecedented world powers lurking in our mobile communication devices and we think the public transport chip card is an onion, all the while being motivated every day to want newer, better, higher, more.

From packaging for fish to opera: JacobTV's The News

by Thea Derks
20 May 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

The news: today it is hot, tomorrow the fish will be wrapped in it. In his video opera The News gives Jacob ter Veldhuis/JacobTV it a second life by putting it in a new context. 'These days, news is infotainment, dipped in sentiment.' Next Friday, the Dutch Travel Opera the premiere at the Wilminkteather in Enschede.

Brotherhood in turbulent times

by Thea Derks
7 May 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

In 2001, when Rotterdam was European Capital of Culture, a number of institutions joined forces and from this, in 2005, the Rotterdam Opera Days born. The aim is to programme innovative musical theatre in the opera house-less Maasstad after all, often in unusual locations. This year the ninth edition will take place, from 17 to 25 May, with the theme 'brotherhood'.

Help! Vind de Lost Painters Vouwfiets!

by Wijbrand Schaap
25 April 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, IMAGING

In de categorie kunstroof is dit de laagste vorm: een oude vouwfiets stelen voor de deur van een dure kunstbeurs. Pak dan dat overbodige navigatiesysteem uit die Porsche Cayenne, het Guccitasje dat achteloos op de balie is neergezet, of schuif die driedubbelverzekerde, met diamant ingelegde iPhone van dat koffietafeltje onder je krant en geniet buiten verder van je geweten.

Greco and Scholten divide attention between CCN Ballet Nationale de Marseille and ICK Amsterdam

by Fransien van der Putt
19 February 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS

Minister Filipetti has given the green light. Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten will be indeed the new artistic directors of CNN Ballet National de Marseille. A company with 30 dancers, 60 employees in total, in a building with 9 studios and a theatre. Who in the Netherlands still gets that done?

64th Berlin Film Festival opens with Wes Anderson's eccentric tragicomedy Grand Budapest Hotel

by Leo Bankersen
6 February 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

Stel je een ouderwets gedistingeerde komedie voor, maar dan gefilmd met moderne vaart, in de kleurrijke en barokke stijl van een rijk gedetailleerd stripverhaal vol complotten en ontsnappingen, afgerond met een parfum van melancholie. Dan kom je in de buurt van The Grand Budapest Hotel, de nieuwe film van

Europees budget voor cultuur verhoogd

by one of our members
20 December 201330 March 2022
1 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Het is feest in Europa. En een beetje hier. Europa verhoogt de uitgaven voor cultuur. Met minder dan eerst de bedoeling was, maar toch. Opstekertje voor het nieuwe jaar. Wel een waarschuwing: je hebt drie man personeel nodig om een aanvraag in goede banen te leiden.

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Armando Navarro (1930-2013): Scapino Ballet for more than just children

by Ruben Brugman
4 September 20138 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Armando Navarro (Argentina, 1930 - Amsterdam 2013), former artistic director of Scapino Ballet, passed away last Sunday. Together with his wife Marian Sarstädt formed Navarro one of the Netherlands' best-known dance couples, alongside Han Ebbelaar and Alexandra Radius (Het Nationale Ballet) and Jiří Kylián and Sabine Kupferberg (Nederlands Dans Theater).

House of Eutopia: haunted house of an ideal society

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 July 201329 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, Treaty of Utrecht

'Eutopia comes from the Greek and means as much as 'Good place'. With this installation, I want to make people think about what that is: a good place.' Architect and visual artist Filip Berte worked on his 'Good Place' for seven years and the result can now be seen in Utrecht's Zijdebalen Theatre.

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.

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

Photo: Anne Bonthuis

Exhibit B confronts with probing looks @hollandfestival

by one of our members
20 June 201329 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

A sociable group of ladies who came in laughing and chatting, leave the room bewildered and tearful. Upset, embarrassed, this is how I see all visitors coming out. What is hard to describe in words is written on their faces. Exhibit B by Brett Bailey is more than impressive. It is an exhibition that confronts and touches.

Simon Stone adapts Ibsen for Australians: 'And why would you even go to the theatre if you live in Sydney?'

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 May 201330 March 2022
10 min read
Holland Festival, SPECIALS

Holland Festival

Simon Stone (28) wrote a new play based on Henrik Ibsen's 1884 stage classic The Wild Duck. The Swiss-born Australian provided the Norwegian play with entirely contemporary language and dressing. The actors sit

Revolt against art partly caused by museum-less era?

by Wijbrand Schaap
15 April 20138 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

More than a decade without national pride does a lot to a country. Could it be true that the simultaneous closure of Stedelijk Museum and Rijksmuseum contributed to the

Wishful thinking in press and politics? "Culture subsidy saves Iceland's economy"

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 March 201329 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

It is as persistent as the message that everything is better in Germany. Aggrieved lovers of culture who still (and rightly) detest the breaking up of the status quo by Rutte I's hate policies often shout it.

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