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Follow Van Gogh's footsteps in Drenthe.

On 11 September 1883, Vincent van Gogh disembarked at Hoogeveen train station. Away from The Hague urbanisation and back to nature. The painter spends months in the area around Hoogeveen, Nieuw-Amsterdam/Veenoord and goes to Zweeloo for a day. He uses his period in Drenthe to unwind and experiment with themes, colours and... 

Drenthe landscape fascinates and enchants in Barbizon of the North

With the storm of publicity, Vincent van Gogh's 'Weeds Burning Farmer' (1883) seems to be the star of the new exhibition Barbizon of the North - The Discovery of the Drenthe Landscape 1850-1950. The centrepiece of the exhibition, as befits a good diva, is still some time away. It is 'fashionably late'. However, a spot has already been reserved. The... 

World-famous 'brooding work' - why Monet's water lilies and wisteria are still so special

Vroeger vond men het drie keer niks, tegenwoordig zijn de schilderijen van waterlelies en blauweregens de beroemdste doeken van de Franse schilder Claude Monet. We bezochten zijn tuinen in Giverny en keken even door de ogen van de meester. https://youtu.be/dfbUOdDe3Lk Mokken en sokken Denk je aan de schilder Claude Monet, dan gaan de eerste gedachten waarschijnlijk uit naar diens kleurrijke… 

Top art is too expensive to improve the Corso. Do something about it, VVD!

Zundert's flower parade, a piece of unique folk culture (since 1936!) in which the - non-native - Dahlia plays a leading role, had a tough time this year. Due to the drought, there were fewer flowers than other years and so improvisations had to be made by the hundreds of volunteers who, every year, make the village where the memory of Vincent van Gogh is alive and well again... 

100 years of De Ploeg at the Groninger Museum: a visual treat

With its colourful exhibition Avant-garde in Groningen. De Ploeg 1918-1928, the Groninger Museum (unofficially) kicks off the year of De Ploeg. On 5 June 2018, it will be 100 years since a number of young Groningen artists set themselves apart from the established (art) order with their collective De Ploeg broke new ground. "Because there wasn't much to do in Groningen... 

Poetry Performance Workshop teaches poets what 'taking a rest' means: 'my next performances will be a lot longer now.'

'There would be a difference between paper poems and poems that only fit into a recitation. I don't think it's a good poem in either case then. A good poem you can read well, and also reread, but it also fits very well in a performance.' Poet Anne van Winkelhof has clear views on what makes poetry good poetry.... 

Ascent, Fiona Tan, video artwork of cinematic allure

Fiona Tan delivers a feature-length video artwork with Ascent

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... 

Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016): Finnish icon of contemporary music

Last Wednesday night, 27 July, Einojuhani Rautavaara died at his home in Helsinki, following complications during an operation. Aged 87, he was widely regarded as the uncrowned heir apparent to Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), who wrote his last notes around 1930.
Bevrijd van schaduw Sibelius
Daarna bleef het lang stil aan het Finse front. Pas vanaf midden jaren vijftig blies Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016) de Finse muziek weer nieuw leven in, met een reeks symfonieën en opera’...

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Apple was not just messing around

Ten years after his death, Karel Appel turns out to be more timeless than you would think with only Cobra in mind. This can be seen at a large and impressive retrospective at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. It showcases the oeuvre of a highly versatile artist who continued to develop into an old age. An impression of the exhibition under construction. Drawings Next to... 

No art without sacrifice! @TFBoulevard shows 2 faces of youth theatre

Last year, theatre festival Boulevard launched a competition giving young creators the chance to create a performance. Requirements: the target audience (young people aged six and over), the length of the performance (roughly 20 minutes) and the theme (Vincent Van Gogh). This weekend the first two winners could be seen, next weekend the other two. Above all, the first performances showed the two faces ... 

Vincent van Gogh finally joins artist group

In this Van Gogh year, the painter has become part of a real group, an artist community, something he never managed to do during his lifetime. With the exhibition 'When I Give Myself, I give Myself', the Van Gogh Museum connects 23 contemporary artists to the lonely Van Gogh, who had hardly any friends during his life and sold only one painting. The... 

Amersfoort masterpieces for Flehite museum

The Amersfoort museum Flehite has been able to acquire two masterpieces with the support of an antiquities association. The oil painting Still life with rose and anemone (1933) by Albert Fiks (1908-1945) and the 'canvas' Dahlias in ginger jar (1917) by Jakob Nieweg were added to the collection. Both paintings are among highlights of the Amersfoort artists' oeuvres. Jakob Nieweg (Hogebeintum 1877) was trained as a pastor.... 

Now for the money. 2 problems and only one and a half solutions in the new copyright law.

Should the free market be curbed to save Dutch culture? The issue facing the Dutch government is quite a big one. On Tuesday, Dutch 'makers' (artists, photographers, actors, screenwriters, translators, directors, freelance journalists, etc.) presented a pamphlet. The pamphlet outlines the idiotic situation the Dutch cultural and creative sector is in. No other country disregards... 

Increasing pressure on art talent: 22 new creators to keep a close eye on.

De afgelopen weken was het op academies in het hele land feest: een nieuwe lichting beeldend kunstenaars studeerde af en liet zich zien aan de wereld. Naast de ouders, opa en oma en enkele vrienden komen op zo'n eindexamenpresentatie ook een hoop kunstprofessionals af.  Scouts, in de vorm van andere kunstenaars, pers, curatoren, verzamelaars en galeriehouders. Al die mensen hopen vooral niet de nieuwe ontdekking mis te lopen en proberen er daarom zo vroeg mogelijk bij te zijn. In sommige gevalle...

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Drama awards party in year of gloom

Het moest feest worden, want er is al genoeg geschreeuwd en geklaagd en het helpt toch niks. Na een jaar waarin vooral de theatersector de harde hand van Mark Ruttes blije crisisbeleid voelde moesten er toch weer prijzen worden uitgereikt. De toch al niet zo enorm grote crème de la crème van de Nederlandse theaterwereld kwam dus weer bij elkaar voor het gala in de Amsterdamse Stadsschouwburg. Het was een dappere poging tot optimisme, terwijl in de wandelgangen ook weer even bleek dat het geen ko...

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Almost had Halbe Zijlstra praising a drummer as a figurehead of our literature

Nice, that secretary of state for hard rock and Tom Clancy. Mr Halbe Zijlstra-san has once again lived up to his change manager name in China. But in a slightly different way. In the land of eternally sealed mouths, he opened the Dutch stand at the book fair there, with a speech that once again rammed Dutch values into the Chinese. Anyway... 

NRC, Vandenende Foundation and Erasmus University show shocking lack of knowledge of art world

Inmiddels is de website aangepast, maar omdat dit bericht de aanleiding was tot die aanpassing, laten we het staan.
Altijd goed om een nieuw initiatief te steunen. Daarom waren we ook blij met het opbouwende plan van de Rotterdamse Erasmus Universiteit en de voormalige kunstkrant NRC Handelsblad om een symposium over nieuwe kunstfinanciering te organiseren. Immers, de overheid wil van de kunstsubsidies af, en in plaats van je daartegen te verzetten, kun je ook gaan denken aan alternatieve oploss...

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The only governing party with a coherent vision of culture is the PVV, reports the Green Left at the Paradiso Debate.

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U hoort achtereenvolgens Axel Rüger, directeur van het Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, die reageert op de door VVD-er Mark Harbers geponeerde stelling dat de kunstwereld niet ondernemend genoeg is. Daarop volgt een reactie van oud cultuurwoordvoerster van het CDA Nicolien van Vroonhoven (door presentator Twan Huys consequent Nicolien van Vroemhoven genoemd) en oud NNT-acteur Boris van der Ham, nu cultuurwoordvoerder van D66. Daarna volgt een gloedvol betoog van M...

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