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At last. Interest groups arts and creative industries seek collaboration

It is actually a footnote in the press release that lobby organisation Kunsten '92 sent out into the world today. But, as always with footnotes, it did contain the most important news. Because Kunsten 92, the club in which organisations in the arts sector polder, is "exploring cooperation" with the Creative Industry Federation. The latter is the Arts '92 of everything that is also culture and creativity,... 

Curious: arts sector support institutes turn against plans for new theatre and music sector institutes

There are quite a few petitions floating around these days. The most curious of all petitions was in the digital mailbox today. In it, the existing support institutes in the cultural sector urge the Lower House not to put money into new support institutes. In doing so, clubs such as the Landelijk Kennniscentrum Amateurkunst (LKCA), Cultuur+Ondernemen, and the Boekmanstichting put in a small but... 

Culture Council fill-in exercise offers hardly any surprises

Champagne bij BAK in Utrecht, diepe teleurstelling bij Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam: de Raad voor Cultuur heeft gesproken. Vandaag, donderdag 19 mei 2016, kwam het eerste advies na de draconische kunstbezuinigingen door het eerste kabinet Rutte uit, en er rollen koppen. Amsterdam verliest de prestigieuze presentatie-instelling De Appel, in Den Haag moet collega-instelling Stroom zijn huiswerk overdoen. Het Orkest van het Oosten en het Gelders Orkest moeten binnen 2 jaar met fusieplannen kom...

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Cultural governance code needs maintenance: who monitors supervisor?

'Uiteindelijk komt het natuurlijk op mijn bordje terecht', verzuchtte Jet Bussemaker, minister van cultuur in kabinet Rutte II, laatst. Ze sprak bij de presentatie van een research report into the functioning of supervisors in the cultural sector, in Amstelveen at the end of April. Because, she summed up: if supervision fails, there is no one but the minister to repair the damage.

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Let zzp'ers keep the supervisory boards of cultural companies on their toes!

How next for boards in the cultural sector? Supervisory boards are under considerable pressure following publications about possible failures of supervision at Rotterdam's Wereldmuseum, Grand Theatre in Groningen and recently again from Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut. Previously, similar reports appeared about De Utrecht Games and the Groninger Museum, among others. In practically all cases, the cases involved a Council... 

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

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.

Erwin Olaf's sets in context, or: why should your visitors come back to your museum?

Erwin Olaf heeft iets met behang. De kunstfotograaf, bekend van zijn verstilde en onheilszwangere composities, vindt wat er op een muur zit minstens zo belangrijk als wat er zich voor die muur afspeelt. Het Nieuwe Instituut heeft dat idee nu mooi weten te combineren in een tentoonstelling die zowel de decors van Erwin Olaf's beroemdste werken laat zien, als een paar behangontwerpen uit de kokers van grote kunstenaars. Het werkt en is absoluut mooi om te zien, maar wat er in een hoekje van de ten...

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Biodesign

Happy jerk or depressed bacteria? Biodesign is the future, according to William Myers

What idiot could come up with that, wondered one of the attendees: that you can make electrical circuits by combining the DNA of an algae with that of a hamster? Just a question that comes to mind when walking around the exhibition Biodesign, on show in Rotterdam from 27 September to 5 January (2014). And then there's... 

Oudolf's sturdy sprites replace floating trestles in Rotterdam harbour

Piet Oudolf, de Nederlandse tuinkunstenaar die het aanzien van New York veranderde, is in Nederland vooral bekend als veredelde plantenboekenschrijver. Na vele grote steden wereldwijd is Rotterdam de eerste stad in Nederland die een plantsoen heeft laten inrichten door de nu 69-jarige ontwerper. En meteen wordt duidelijk wat we al die jaren zo gemist hebben in ons 'openbaar groen'. Volkomen terecht dus, dat Oudolf in november de Prins Bernhard Cultuurfondsprijs krijgt uitgereikt.
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