Maandag 15 april 2019, deze datum staat voorgoed in ons geheugen gekerfd. Ik hield het niet droog bij de beelden van de allesverzengende brand in de Notre-Dame de Paris. Net als miljoenen anderen zat ik urenlang met ingehouden adem aan mijn schermpje gekleefd: dit mag niet waar zijn! Toen de structuur, de roosvensters en zelfs het orgel gered bleken sprongen…
Calm and peace are but a thin layer covering the chaos of war and other violence in the world. In an extensive and richly varied themed programme, Eye shows how filmmakers have captured that in stories.
Haar debuutroman werd meteen een grote bestseller in Spanje. Het laatste geschenk van Paulina Hoffmann van Carmen Romero Dorr is een deels op haar eigen familiegeschiedenis gebaseerde roman over Paulina, die als jong meisje vanwege Tweede Wereldoorlog van Duitsland naar Spanje emigreert. ‘Over haar verleden, haar ervaringen tijdens de oorlog, wilde mijn grootmoeder nooit praten.’ Een mooi familie-epos, dat is Het laatste…
How did the Hague prostitute Blonde Dolly make her millions? And why was her killer never caught, when it was abundantly clear who must have strangled her? That smells like a conspiracy, and conspiracies are like grist to writer Tomas Ross' mill. In Blonde Dolly, he tackles one of the oldest and most mysterious cold cases in the Netherlands. Until it...
Oratorios are notoriously undramatic because they only tell a story for one second and do not zoom in on human emotions. Juditha Triumphans is no exception and the narrative itself has little to it. To rid her town of its assailants, Judith gets their general drunk and then cuts off his head. This could make for a compelling story, were it...
On Wednesday 16 January, Reinbert de Leeuw will present his cycle Im wunderschönen Monat Mai at Paradiso. A unique opportunity to see him at work once more in his globally believed masterpiece. In 2003, he surprised friend and foe alike with this composition inspired by songs by Schumann and Schubert. Was that not swearing in church? Arnold Schoenberg had the Romanticism...
Until now, film education has mostly been a grab bag of initiatives. But now that the minister mentions it in her policy plan and extra money has been allocated, new steps can be taken. Towards a permanent place in the classroom? We ask Florine Wiebenga, head of education Eye, and Jeroen Stultiens, Film Teacher of the Year.
Three black men wash up on a small island. This threatens to throw a spanner in the works of the residents and their economic plans. So everyone prefers to pretend that nothing has happened. Archipelago of the Dog, Philippe Claudel's new novel, is a haunting book with lightness peeking through at times. The French bestselling author worries: 'Once, nuclear weapons constituted...
It did not require a manifesto, nor a fist-thick art-critical treatise in which a learned committee arrives at an all-defining verdict. No, it was a slip of the tongue by an artist, this time defining a new art movement. Olaffur Eliasson, the architekt/artist rapidly gaining popularity in the world of design and architecture in recent years, says it in a...
De naam van Sedje Hémon (1923-2011) zal niet bij iedereen onmiddellijk een belletje doen rinkelen. Zij was een van de eerste kunstenaars die multidisciplinair werkte, door composities te baseren op haar eigen schilderijen. Haar schilderij-partituren werden recent getoond tijdens Documenta 14 in Kassel en Athene, maar haar muziek is al bijna 4 decennia niet meer uitgevoerd. Het Haagse Ensemble Modelo62 zet Hémon…
Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006) suffered under several dictatorships; the Nazis killed his father and brother during World War II, and after the War the Communists forced him to write sweet 'folk music'. After the 1956 Hungarian uprising, he fled to Vienna and then to Cologne. In the West, he unpopularised into an idiosyncratic composer, who already...
Tomas Ross, ook wel de godfather van de Nederlandse ‘faction’ genoemd, sluit met zijn nieuwe thriller Het verdriet van Wilhelmina zijn trilogie over Nederlands-Indië af. ,,Lezers zeggen vaak: bij u weten we nooit wat waar is en wat niet waar. Dat kun je een bezwaar vinden, maar ik vind het een compliment.’’ Arnie Springer De nieuwe thriller van Tomas…
Is she on a podium of honour or a scaffold? Joan of Arc holds a monologue. She shouts out her words. The beat of the music propels an ominous atmosphere into the room. On the floor, five dancers make resolute movements. In a long series of statements and confessions, Jeanne speaks out what moved her to seek the battlefield. And.
'I admire the strength of women. I experience it as greater than that of men. Women's strength lies in the dedication with which they can deal with things. The courage to push boundaries.' Jens van Daele, in his latest theatre show 'Nighthexen 1: Jeanne', pays tribute to the strength of women and highlights their heroism from...
A hopeful experiment has begun in Finland. The Netherlands is also trying to get something off the ground, although the government is thwarting the plans for now. Why is unclear. Because even big-capitalists like Elon Musk (Tesla) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) are now saying it: a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is the only way we can advance our society, and with it our civilisation...
Hoe moet je rouwen? Is er wel een manier om te rouwen, of ben je aan het noodlot overgeleverd? Hoe ga je om met iemand in de rouw? Rouwtherapeute Julia Samuel helpt al 25 jaar mensen die een dierbare verloren hebben. Ze weet inmiddels hoe het wel en vooral niet moet. In maart van dit jaar, een paar dagen voordat…
Although Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) is considered one of the most important French composers of the early 20th century, her music is rarely performed. On Friday 10 November, Du fond de l'abîme will be heard in the AVROTROS Friday Concert. A godsend, because this setting of psalm 130 is of a throat-splitting beauty. Boulanger completed the piece in 1917, a year before her death. American conductor James...
On Thursday 19 October, Peter Eötvös conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Dutch premiere of his organ concerto Multiversum, which he commissioned for the company. His brand new composition is flanked by works by György Ligeti and Claude Vivier. Transylvania's rich musical tradition Hungarian composer and conductor Peter Eötvös (Székelyudvarhely, 1944) grew up in Transylvania. Towards the end of...
Woensdag 20 juni lanceerde Kajsa Ollongren de website Forbidden Music Regained in de Uilenburgersjoel in Amsterdam. De hoofdstedelijke loco-burgemeester en wethouder cultuur citeerde ruimtevaarder Neil Armstrong en noemde het project ‘a giant step for mankind’. Ze vervolgde: ‘De website is ook belangrijk voor de stad Amsterdam, want we kunnen en mogen niet vergeten wat zeventig jaar geleden in onze stad…
De roman Haar naam was Sarah (negen miljoen verkochte exemplaren) maakte Tatiana de Rosnay wereldberoemd. In Parijs draagt ze zelfs een pruik als ze niet herkend wil worden. Dat ze kampte met anorexia hield ze jarenlang geheim. [bol_product_links block_id=”bol_592be29ab4765_selected-products” products=”9200000075700087,1001004010207707,9200000077515228,9200000011255053″ name=”a4m” sub_id=”de rosnay” link_color=”003399″ subtitle_color=”000000″ pricetype_color=”000000″ price_color=”CC3300″ deliverytime_color=”009900″ background_color=”FFFFFF” border_color=”D2D2D2″ width=”549″ cols=”2″ show_bol_logo=”0″ show_price=”1″ show_rating=”1″ show_deliverytime=”1″ link_target=”1″ image_size=”1″ admin_preview=”1″] Acht levensvragen…
Every five years, the art world turns upside down. Then it is time for the fourteenth Documenta. At that time, the German city of Kassel turns into a veritable Mecca for art connoisseurs and art lovers, snobs and connoisseurs. And, of course, tourists looking for that other Efteling. This year's Documenta has a sizeable Dutch contribution. But there is more: for the...
Displaced paintings by Armando. Artists fleeing the city. A tinpot that brought financial disaster and summer festivals that attract tens of thousands of visitors every year. And you thought Amersfoort was boring? A footnote along the A1 motorway? Forget it. Let me tell you about this city struggling with its cultural identity. A story in eighteen impressions. Guilty landscape In his youth...
For those who like to be around art, politics has become a bit more fun again, since 15 March. Since the 2017 elections, Thierry Baudet has been in the House of Representatives. Thierry Baudet knows a lot about art, he thinks, and we will come to know it, too. In fact, Thierry Baudet is the best thing about art these days...
‘Mijn vader was geheim agent 007, lang vóór James Bond’ Tomas Ross is de Nederlandse grootmeester van de faction roman, een genre waarin feiten en fictie door elkaar lopen. In 1980 verscheen zijn eerste thriller De honden van het verraad over de vrijheidsstrijd van de Zuid-Molukkers. Hij heeft inmiddels ruim 70 titels op zijn naam en schrijft ook scenario’s voor…
The video artwork 'Ascent' is one of Fiona Tan's most recent works. Ascent is a feature-length video artwork: 1 hour and 17 minutes[ref]A work resulting from a special commission from the Izu Photo Museum in Japan[/ref]. You may already be familiar with this artist's work[ref]The now 50-year-old Fiona Tan is "no ordinary Indian girl", born in Pekan...
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