The best works of art are failures, and it is up to the public to give them a meaning over which the artist has no control, argued comedian Micha Wertheim in an essay for De Correspondent. We thought that was a good topic for our fourth geek podcast. Marijn Lems (NRC,Theaterkrant) does sometimes clash with people who give him too much in his reviews,...
De theaterstoelen, die op vrijdag 15 mei 2020 dienden als de tractoren van de kunsten in Noord Brabant, hebben effect gesorteerd. Althans, zo lijkt het. De Gedeputeerde Staten van de provincie hebben namelijk het woord ‘cultuur’ weer teruggebracht in de begroting. Het blijkt echter een Pyrrhus-overwinning, omdat tegelijkertijd de Provincie ook de afspraken met het Rijk niet gaat volgen, en…
(8 mei: aangepast om duidelijk te maken dat de bezuiniging waarschijnlijk 100% is) Het nieuwe provinciebestuur van Noord Brabant gaat de zwaar door corona getroffen cultuursector nog wel helpen om de klap van dit jaar te boven te komen. Direct daarna volgt echter een bezuiniging die oploopt tot minstens 25 procent op het totale budget voor ‘vrije tijd’. Blijkens de…
Ik ging naar Rotterdam Zuid om Shakespeare te zien. Het stuk heette Cleopatra en iemand had geprobeerd daar een feministisch manifest van te maken. Dat is zoiets als een neushoorn door een hoepel laten springen: de Britse bard verhoudt zich tot het feminisme als Thierry Baudet tot Greta Thunberg. Het was dus niet gelukt en daar had de recensent van…
Art at a music festival often degenerates into decoration, but that certainly does not apply to Groningen's CLASH. 'We don't want art to be left out of the programming, but rather to be given full attention. We think it deserves that,' says organiser Milou de Boer. Fifty per cent of CLASH's programming budget goes to the arts, and that was too...
'Surely the fight for women's rights should have been fought by now, but it doesn't feel that way lately. Men still have a deep-rooted feeling that they should be above women. Where does that come from anyway? Where does someone like rapper Boef get the idea that he should just give women, who were kind enough to give him a lift,...
There I stood. Next to THE RED LOPER. In THE PRESS box. Everything you must have done once in your life and this was MY MOMENT. THE BOOKBALL at THE CITY BURY which was renamed ITA because of the boss' career. To my left TEAM VOLKSKRANT, to my right a cute KRULLENBOL from the LINDA and in between them a journalist....
It was just missing the heavy music and gothic storm images in the Game of Thrones trailer whose lyrics Thierry Baudet uttered on the night of Wednesday 20 to Thursday 21 March 2019. 'And so here we stand, at the eleventh hour, among the debris of what was once the greatest and most beautiful civilisation the world has known. A...
I went to Amsterdam to face my social anxieties on the once infamous Mercatorplein. I saw a sunny square with a trendy bar and bakfiets mothers around a play fountain for white children (brrrr! gentrification), old veiled and un veiled women chatting on a bench (help! multiculture) and a performance in a converted bumper car tent (Waaaah! Holland Festival). What I didn't...
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...
Far more people waved at the Queen on Princes Day than stood on Malieveld a day earlier to protest against austerity. Why are we unable to revolt? And what can we learn from the Tahrir Square uprising. These were some of the questions that came up during 'Lessons in revolt', the debate...
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