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'Jett Rebel, we heard you and the money for the cultural sector you are asking for is ready. In Brussels!'

Young artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and other new thinkers are drowning in the effects of the Corona crisis, as a cry for help from Jett Rebel in de Volkskrant again showed. Assignments are falling away and there is little room for new initiatives. A whole generation of creative talents seems to be lost in jobs in the hospitality industry or at the GGD. The European Recovery Fund... 

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It is not too late to make a European Cultural New Deal central to recovery funds

Recently, US geopolitician Joseph Nye1 drew attention once again to the fact that transnational culture is one of the great forces of the European project. For those looking at the European Union from the outside, this common culture is evident, but we, citizens of the Union, are less and less aware of it. Moreover, we tend to... 

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‘Het was alsof ik in mijn boek terecht was gekomen.’ Hoe de dystopische nieuwe roman van Tatiana de Rosnay ineens verdacht veel op de werkelijkheid ging lijken

Het is snikheet in Parijs op de dag van het interview met Tatiana de Rosnay (58). In haar nieuwe roman Bloemen van de duisternis gaat Parijs gebukt onder een zoveelste hittegolf, waarbij de thermometer de 48 graden aantikt. ‘De afgelopen dagen was het bijna net zo erg als in mijn boek,’ vertelt De Rosnay via Zoom vanuit haar Parijse werkkamer.… 

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Virtual life after death does have a price tag in Amazon Prime's Upload

With amazement, I become aware of the 'sacrificing your elderly fellow man' attitude of many here in the Netherlands. Dor wood. Not money, but the love for it is the root of evil. Right now, I wish a virtual heaven were possible - so that those who have lost someone and may not be able to say goodbye to them either... 

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Zeitgeist and chance cannot be captured by an algorithm. Why a robot should not replace the music programmer.

Last Wednesday, 2 October, at the annual congress of the Vereniging Nederlandse Poppodia en Festivals in Tivoli/Vredenburg, I saw an interesting presentation by Jonas Kiesekoms, research coordinator at PXL-Music in Hasselt, Belgium, and musician. The question is now classic: can a robot replace the music programmer? With his research group, Kiesekoms is working on several applications that use data science to improve ticket sales for concerts,... 

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Wie zei ook alweer dat moderne muziek humorloos en cerebraal was? Amerikaanse Kelley Sheehan wint in Muziekweek vol humor en bespiegeling

Even lijkt de enveloppe niet te openen maar dan tovert minister Ingrid van Engelshoven toch het verlossende papiertje tevoorschijn. ‘De winnaar van de Gaudeamus Award 2019 is Kelley Sheehan!’ De kleine Amerikaanse valt bijna van haar krukje van verbazing. Waarschijnlijk niet geheel toevallig heeft de organisatie voor nieuwe muziek haar precies midden tussen haar vier medekandidaten gepositioneerd. – Zelf zou… 

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Groninger Museum presents Daan Roosegaarde's Presence; where the visitor makes the exhibition

Before walking into Daan Roosegaarde's new exhibition, I read the following: "Touching? Yes, please!" I take another good look at the sign, because you don't usually associate those words with a museum visit. At Daan Roosegaarde's exhibition Presence, however, it is a prerequisite. The artist wants you to touch and experience his art. For me, that was easier 

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Reading in times of Netflix: why books are a must for our minds, according to bestselling author Joël Dicker (33)

'During performances or book signings, people often come up to me and tell me: "I wasn't a reader, but your book made me experience the pleasure of reading and now I really enjoy reading." I don't say that because I think my books are now so good, but because it shows that once someone experiences... 

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‘We kunnen de concurrentie met Disney aan.’ Waarom de lange Nederlandse animatiefilm gaat doorbreken met Heinz en Bunuel

‘Heinz’ en ‘Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles’, beide uit op 18 april, signaleren een belangrijke ontwikkeling op gebied van de lange Nederlandse animatiefilm. Een doorbraak hangt in de lucht. Over eigenwijsheid en coproducties, Anne Frank en Miss Moxy. En wat er nog meer in aantocht is.

Floating with sea legs through a 600-metre tower: Das Totale Tanz Theater celebrates 100 years of Bauhaus

Some 400 virtual metres we go up with the dancers. Beforehand, we are warned to look straight ahead if we are afraid of heights. For me, this was unnecessary, I loved flying along in the huge circular space, knowing I was safely ensconced in a chair. Choreography, avatars, architecture and Blixa Bargeld. Those are a few... 

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Culture Council: The Netherlands underestimates its own music theatre culture. (Why opera still seeks talent abroad)

The Performing Arts Fund is failing to professionalise and make the music theatre sector sustainable. So says the Council for Culture in an advice leaked yesterday on the future of music theatre in the Netherlands. The advice presented today to the rest of the Netherlands therefore wants to transfer more different music theatre makers and companies from the Performing Arts Fund to the Cultural Basic Infrastructure. This partly... 

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Fit during Significant Moments of NDT2

Vulnerable surrender for NDT2 in Significant Moments

Moving. Before Significant Moments begins, the brisk Fernando Hernando Magadan presents himself as the new artistic director of NDT2. Applause in the auditorium. But the reason he stands behind a lectern with a huge flower arrangement is to pay tribute to the retiring artistic director: Gerald Tibbs. Gerald Tibbs. The peerless dancer everyone could walk away from 

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Zwierende parachutes en trillende spieren op Playful Arts Festival: ‘Als de bezoeker niets doet, bestaat het werk niet’

Af en toe schuurt het bij Playful Arts, een intiem festival dat spel en kunst samenbrengt. Alles draait om interactie, zelf doen, ervaren. Sommige bezoekers moeten even een drempel over. Maar dan gebeurt er wel iets. ‘Die dansers moeten echt een keigoeie conditie hebben’, hoor ik iemand achter me vol eerbied mompelen. Aan de overkant van de straat wijst een… 

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Evolutie en revolutie in Westworld seizoen 2. Preview (zonder spoilers maar met #metoo)

De première van het tweede seizoen van Westworld vindt volgende week plaats. Ik mocht alvast kijken. Mocht er geen belletje gaan rinkelen; Westworld is op dit moment, na Game of Thrones, HBO’s meest populaire serie. Korte synopsis: de show speelt zich af in het fictieve Westworld: een technologisch Western themapark waar de bevolking compleet bestaat uit synthetische androïden, die ook… 

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‘Niks Te Verbergen’ in Nijmegen. Een Sleepwetfestival om de burger objectief te informeren

De wet op het raadgevend referendum heeft, behalve veel verwarring, ook een nieuwe categorie festivals opgeleverd. Het ‘Oekraïnereferendum’ leverde minstens 1 festival op (in het Amsterdamse debatcentrum De Balie) en het sleepwetreferendum op 21 maart 2018 is aanleiding voor het Sleepwetfestival ‘Niks te Verbergen’ in Nijmegen. Prominent lid van het organiserend team is Viola van Alphen. Met haar stichting Violavirus… 

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'The current museum loan system leads to decisions based on prejudice rather than fact.'

Museums often manage more art objects than they can display. What they cannot display in the museum galleries they keep safely in the depot. Collections with motley collections of objects from different periods are a growing problem for museums. Marketers stress the need for focus, a clear story and strong branding. Objects that no longer fit the new vision... 

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Our readers' list. What we should all never forget from 2017.

Well, we're not big on hypes and traditions here, but still. The dark days around Christmas are very dark this year, so why not something with lists. This year, no list of toppers from the editors, but random entries from random readers, in random, if slightly alphabetical order. Motto of the reader question was: which things... 

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Save and destroy: charge against squandering cultural heritage

A Saudi prince is paying $450 million for a mediocre painting by Leonardo da Vinci; a Dutch politician is pledging a crate of beer for a new composition. In a nutshell, these two extremes capture our current dealings with culture. Total contempt on the one hand and unimaginable overvaluation on the other are two sides of the same coin. We do not judge art for its... 

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IDFA 2017: digital pioneer Jonathan Harris switches to analogue

With a 500-million-year-old pebble, Jonathan Harris began his lecture. IDFA presents the first international retrospective of this artist. As IDFA's chief guest, Harris gave the 'Master Talk' on Friday, about his life and work. His remarkably analogue vision was also the common thread during Sunday's well-attended DocLab conference. Fundamentally analogue Harris, who once started out in computer science... 

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Films at ADE: The rock doc as an IKEA package.

In de marge van Amsterdam Dance Event zag ik twee muziekdocumentaires die blootleggen waarom dit genre vaak problematisch is voor de cinefiel. Beide films hebben zo hun mooie momenten, maar voldoen uiteindelijk niet voor wie meer wenst dan louter informatieoverdracht in televisieformat. Een sympathieke Goth Are ‘friends’ electric? is titel en grote hit (1979) van de Britse synthesizerpoppionier Gary Numan,… 

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American kindergarten drama with a body count of 2 million on #HF17

De kans is niet ondenkbeeldig dat je nog nooit van Fortunato Depero hebt gehoord. Of misschien ben je een liefhebber van classic design en heb je nog ergens een oud miniflesje Campari staan. Dat heeft hij gemaakt. Als toneelschrijver zou je hem best over het hoofd hebben kunnen zien. Op 21 juni ben ik gaan kijken of je jezelf daarmee… 

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