Boekreview “A whole New Mind” door Daniel H. Pink Tussen alle negatieve berichten over de toekomst van de kunsten poppen zo nu en dan ook andere geluiden op. 1 van de meest indrukwekkende tegengeluiden is voor mij het boek “A whole new mind” van Daniel H. Pink. Volgens Daniel gaan kunstenaars en creatieven het de komende jaren helemaal maken. We zitten…
With 'The oasis of Matisse', the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has put on a magnificent exhibition. Sixty years after there was last a major retrospective of Matisse in the Netherlands, his work is back on display in all its glory. So alongside 'Late Rembrandt' at the Rijksmuseum, there is another blockbuster in the capital. The thousands of visitors who attended the...
The misery in Groningen is a bit bigger than we thought. Meanwhile, the Grand Theatre appears to be at least 250,000 in the red. And counting. Money that the theatre subsidised by the city of Groningen owes mainly to artists. Choreographer Dunja Djocic, for instance, had received €90,000 in subsidies to create performances at the Grand for 2 years. Theatre-maker Andreas Denk had received...
Britain's Arts Index stands at 111. This puts the cultural AEX of a country that likes to call itself the world's cultural No 1, four points lower than last year, but still a point higher than in 2012, the year when the government also began cutting subsidies in Britain. The 'National Campaign...
82% cut in Overijssel's culture budget No, the VVD did not become the largest party in Overijssel in the last provincial elections, the PvdA attracted 1.6% more voters, but if there is a province where Halbe Zijlstra's nationally initiated policy had an effect, it was that province. Residents soon noticed this, but research by consultancy firm
100 Dutch plays were presented to them, the 224 Dutch heavy users of our theatre seats who took part in a survey by the Amsterdam Institute for Theatre Studies. Plays that ranged from fairly well-known, such as Herman Heijermans' 'Op Hoop van Zegen' from the beginning of the last century and Joost van den Vondel's 460-year-old tragedy 'Lucifer', to completely unknown, such as...
Of Dutch people, the province can cut back even more on Culture. This week, Ipsos Synnovate presented a survey to that effect, and it was another slap in the face for the sector. Apparently, the image of art as an expensive kind of leftist hobby has not yet been eradicated by three years of optimistic NLPing by culture minister Jet Bussemaker's PR machine....
They are each other's opposites: Michiel Borstlap exudes luxury and relaxation, Micha Hamel a tense frown. But the two not inconsiderable gentlemen have both recently joined the Academy of Arts. They played new work last weekend and I spoke to them afterwards. Actually, I was programming Michiel Borstlap's concert for a theatre in Driebergen. In an expensive Jaguar, we drove to a restaurant for coffee...
In Amersfoort, one art hall is empty and one art hall is full. KAdE, only recently completed and already successful, was dismantled five years after opening and moved to another, even newer building, across the railway line. However, the city council does not appear to have been properly informed about the financial consequences of this move and is now stuck with and noose of at least 10...
Radbraken. This is how it works: you tie someone to a sturdy cartwheel, then break all his or her bones by beating them country-wide with clubs, after which you braid the mangled limbs around the spokes of the wheel. It is essential that the punished person undergoes all this alive and conscious. After the treatment, you bring the wheel with...
Goed bezig, daar in Den Haag. Nadat het gezelschap eerder deze week al aankondigde een jonge maker nog vóór zijn dood in de artistieke leiding op te nemen, volgt vandaag de mededeling dat Het Nationale Toneel wil fuseren met de Koninklijke Schouwburg. Dat zou betekenen dat voor het eerst in lange tijd in Nederland de bespeler van een stadstheater weer…
Two corpses. Despairing bystanders. A blood-red photo. The cover of the Exploration, released by the Amsterdam Arts Council, makes one fear the worst. A massacre has been committed. Even if it is a scenic photo of a performance by Toneelgroep Amsterdam. Or is it all different? Are only two dead, and the rest live on? Something about shows that on must go?....
What does the theatre of the future look like? That question Odeon De Spiegel Theatres posed to the FMT Workforce, the online brainstorming environment of our partner Fast Moving Targets. We also brought the message here. Odeon and De Spiegel are two theatres in Zwolle. Well-run theatres, but always looking for the new opportunities offered by new technologies and developments....
De Speechdokter recenseert: De 3 Anti-Sprekers van TEDX Amsterdam 2014: Duncan Stutterheim, Ton van Oostwaard en Henk Schiffmacher. Wat is TEdx Amsterdam? Vrijdag 27 november 2014 vond de bekendste TEDx van Nederland, TEDx Amsterdam weer plaats in de Stadsschouwburg. TED is een wereldwijde organisatie waar mensen van naam en faam (of voor naam en faam) komen opdraven om hun ‘ideas…
Het slechte nieuws is: de meeste mythen over Carthago zijn onzin. Het goede nieuws is, dat de werkelijkheid minstens zo fascinerend is. Het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO) in Leiden laat tot en met 10 mei 2015 de veelzijdige geschiedenis zien van een havenstad in het huidige Tunesië, en ooit geducht concurrent van het Romeinse rijk. Het biedt tegelijk een kijkje…
Film-making used to be a man's business. Men made films about men watching women - something like that. In 1975, film scholar Laura Mulvey launched the famous notion of 'The Male Gaze'. Last year, it resurfaced in the heated debate surrounding La vie d'Adèle, that wonderful film by Abdellatif Kechiche (male) about a lesbian love affair. So how about before? This year, IDFA has...
How to visit an art museum? Johan Idema, consultant, cultural entrepreneur and advocate of innovation in the art world, has written a book about it: 'How to visit an art museum'. He thinks there is room for improvement and change. And that after reading his book, people will experience their museum visits differently and especially better. And of course: that museums will also have the...
Uit onderzoek van Cultuurmarketing onder ruim 650 marketeers in de culturele sector, blijkt dat het verhogen van de bezoekersaantallen de belangrijke marketingdoelstelling voor het komende jaar is. Met het jaarlijkse onderzoek brengt Cultuurmarketing actuele ontwikkelingen in het vakgebied in kaart. Verhogen bezoekersaantallen is belangrijkste marketingdoelstelling Het verhogen van de bezoekersaantallen is voor 40% van de organisaties de belangrijkste doelstelling voor…
Drama reviews mainly fill a need among artists and journalists. Newspaper readers hardly use them. In London, this has been studied. Only 36 per cent of theatre-goers say they read reviews. Much more value fans place on tips from friends and family. Last Saturday at Amsterdam's De Balie debate centre, there was a discussion between theatre-makers,...
By Melle Daamen 'What do you want then?' was a question I received quite often in response to my articles last year in NRC, in which I expressed my concerns about the state of the arts in the Netherlands and especially its future. I argued for a fundamental debate from within the arts sector itself, focusing on the future, including...
Dalende bezoekersaantallen, krimpende subsidies, verschraling van de programmering: de meeste Nederlandse theaters hebben het moeilijk, bleek onlangs uit onderzoek door NRC Handelsblad. De schouwburgen verwelkomden in 2012 twaalf miljoen bezoekers volgens de NRC-cijfers, een kwart minder dan in 2008. Festivals zitten juist in de lift. Er worden er steeds meer georganiseerd, en ze trekken steeds meer volk – in totaal…
We reported on it earlier. Because it was too crazy for words. Cable companies refused to pay writers since 2012. They did pay broadcasters, producers and men in suits like that with a BMW out front, but not writers. And neither did journalists. While a large part of those clubs' billions in profits comes from the very makers of the...
Dat is schrikken. Op vrijdag meldt De Volkskrant dat de prijzen voor culturele activiteiten in Amsterdam sinds 2009 met maar liefst met 37,3% zijn gestegen. Nu.nl pikt het meteen op, al snel gevolgd door TROS Radar. Dan moet het wel waar zijn. Het door iedereen klakkeloos overgenomen nieuws verwijst naar een bericht op de site van de BBC. Dat bericht…
Leuk kunnen schrijven is fijn, maar de journalisten van Cultuurpers kunnen meer. Ze hebben gestudeerd voor kunstkenner, hebben duizenden uren doorgebracht in zaaltjes en hallen waar zelfs u het bestaan nog niet van wist en beschikken over een enorme gedrevenheid. Hoe anders kan deze website bestaan?
One and a half million euros sounds quite a lot. So a cry of joy will be heard here and there now that Jet Bussemaker is allocating that extra amount to culture. After all, this is yet another make up after the almost 300 million her ministry took from the sector earlier. However, the conditions the culture minister attaches to the money tell a different story: the money is only for art that is demonstrably useful.
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