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Collection shuffling, Rutte II's new hobby

The Geldmuseum gaat over een maand dicht, maar de collectie (voor zover belangrijk) gaat naar De Nederlandsche Bank. Het Tropenmuseum is opgeheven, maar de collection wordt elders ondergebracht. De bibliotheek wordt echter maar voor de helft gered: alles van na 1950 is volgens minister Bussemaker niet interessant genoeg om te bewaren. Dit blijkt uit de antwoorden die de minister van Cultuur Bussemaker heeft gegeven op vragen van de SP.

'Ann Goldstein's departure signals Ann Goldstein's departure'

Prachtige quote in de Volkskrant, die ook overgenomen is door het ANP in de berichtgeveing over het vertrek van Ann Goldstein als artistiek directeur van hert Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Of omgekeerd. Even goed lezen:
“Met haar ontslag heeft Goldstein aangegeven dat haar werk voor het museum in haar ogen voltooid is en dat het museum klaar is voor een nieuwe artistieke directeur die het museum in de toekomst zal leiden.”
Hoe kan het ook anders. Dit heet 'stating the obvious'. Het was nieuws g...

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Dance pioneer Ellen Edinoff matured the dance world

Danseres Ellen Edinoff is dinsdag op 70-jarige leeftijd in haar woonplaats Amsterdam overleden. Ellen vormde samen met haar man Koert Stuyf in de  jaren '60-'70 een uniek danspaar dat reacties in uitersten opriep. De Nederlandse danswereld werd mede dankzij hen volwassen.  Ellen vocht de laatste 3 jaar tegen haar ziekte. Ze was in 2012 nog in staat een comeback te maken op het podium.
De Amerikaanse Ellen Edinoff leerde Koert Stuyf kennen in New York. Ze vestigden zich in Nederland waar ze op gr...

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No work by Kylián at NDT: a masterstroke?

De aangekondigde koersverlegging bij NDT houdt de gemoederen bezig. Om te beginnen Den Haag Centraal, tot de Volkskrant tot Cultureel Persbureau en vandaag Theaterkrant.nl.
@tmtheaternieuws: Op verzoek v Jirí Kylián voert Ned. Dans Theater v.a sept 2014 3 jaar lang geen choreografieën meer v hem uit.” Hè, wat??
— Esther Kleuver (@estherkleuver) 10 mei 2013
 
O jee. Gelezen in Den Haag Centraal: het Nederlands Dans Theater mag na 9/2014 geen werk van Jiri Kylian meer opvoeren. — I van Franke...

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'Mogadishu' fits into zeitgeist of moral confusion

Ooit was gesubsidieerd theater een linkse hobby. Inmiddels zijn we twee jaar verder, en heeft het gesubsidieerde theater zich zonder enige moeite gevoegd naar de heersende, veel rechtsere trend. Toneelgroep Amsterdam heeft immers een toneelbewerking van Ayn Rands rabiaat anti-sociale roman en Tea Party-bijbel The Fountainhead op het programma staan. En op donderdag 24 januari kondigde het Utrechtse stadstheatergezelschap De Utrechtse Spelen een toneelstuk aan waarbij voor de inhoudelijke verantw...

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First post Culture Press at Press Group

Developing new models on the internet takes time. We have found that out with the Cultural Press Agency by now. With more than 7,500 followers on Twitter and 400 visitors a day to our website, we have now become a factor of importance in cultural journalism. But we are also very happy that four years after the first plans took shape and one year after the start-up subsidy from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science ended, our first publication can be read on the sites of De Persgroep, publisher of Trouw, Volkskrant and Parool.

Jeroen Willems (1962 - 2012)

The Netherlands' greatest artist is dead. Can happen. But can I then also curse heartily? Because Jeroen Willems is irreplaceable. As a journalist, you know the drill: of actors over 60, or of otherwise fragile stature, you have a necrootje ready. If you are well-known and meet the requirements, count on your friends and acquaintances to... 

Germany investing in culture? Not really.

Ook wij hebben het geretweet: “Duitsland verhoogt cultuursubsidie met 100 miljoen”. En we gaven zo voeding aan een halve waarheid. Die halve waarheid is, dat Duitsland een hemel is voor cultuurliefhebbers, een toevluchtsoord voor mensen die de kille bezuinigingen van de regeringen Rutte zat zijn. Duitsland lijkt misschien leuk, maar, zoals Volkskrant-correspondent Merlijn Schoonenboom in maart van dit jaar al opmerkte, er wordt daar minstens even hard bezuinigd als hier.
What went wrong?
Het ber...

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Halbe Zijlstra: 'nothing to do with local arts policy'

Halbe Zijlstra is proud of his policy, and keen to come and tell it in front of the entire cultural sector. So on Sunday 26 August, he appeared on stage during the annual 'Paradiso Debate' to reiterate how well things had gone with the 200 million cut in the arts sector. He praised the resilience of the affected art world, and would be happy to do the same again.

'Windfall cuts': bricks saved, people sacrificed

The major research and management consulting firm Berenschot has calculated that, on balance, the cuts to the arts turn out to be not too bad. Client of the study, De Volkskrant, then headlined that big. And indeed, it is kind of good news that the pile-up of cuts (the state 24% less, the provinces 20% less and the municipalities only 9 % less) is so low in net terms. We were surprised for a moment, but when we asked around, we found out

Volkskrant fails: not 'region' but Randstad suffers

Deze wil ik even aan jullie voorleggen. Citaat uit de volkskrant van vanochtend, waar redacteur Harmen Bockma een dappere poging doet om alle cijfers van de cultuurslachting op een rijtje te zetten, maar daar een beetje in faalt. Het blijft ook lastig om de uitval in de basisinfrastructuur op te tellen bij de uitval bij het fonds, maar het blijkt helemaal lastig om te onderscheiden wat nou precies 'regio's' zijn en wat 'steden'. Ik kom er althans niet uit.
Ik citeer:
"Door de nadruk op topinstel...

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Baldwin Live

Woensdag 1 augustus 2012 maakt het Fonds Podiumkunsten de uitslag bekend van de loterij die het verlenen van subsidie aan kunst inmiddels is geworden. Er dreigen enorme kortingen: gezelschappen en makers die inmiddels vast onderdeel leken uit te maken van het Nederlandse kunstlandschap zullen verdwijnen. Hoe het er precies uit gaat zien, weten we officieel dus pas vanaf 12:00 uur woensdag 1 augustus. Om zaken vooraf te lekken heeft geen zin, daarvoor is de boel te dramatisch.
Wat we wel willen d...

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Too full or not too full at subsidy theatre

Hein Janssen (Volkskrant) wrote a column in response to a couple of performances with BN stars in the subsidised circuit in which he argued that subsidy was not meant for that. The association for actors thought this was reason enough for a debate. We made a short film to go with it. We formatted it in storify, a feature that allows you to put tweets and other social media messages together and... 

'No shit, everybody rich', but also: 'alarm, alarm, all poor'

Kunstsubsidies kunnen beter worden afgeschaft als kunstenaars een groot publiek moeten bereiken. Want dan vervals je immers de markt. Logisch. Je kunt ook besluiten iedereen subsidie te geven. En dat klinkt vreemder dan het is.
De afgelopen maanden zijn er een paar theatervoorstellingen geweest die het heel goed deden bij het grote publiek. Omdat dit voorstellingen waren die met subsidie gemaakt zijn, bracht dat in een paar kranten de pennen in beweging. Hein Jansen van De Volkskrant betoogde in...

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Fact-free journalism plunges into arts sector.

    According to the Volkskrant, Rick van der Ploeg was state secretary of culture in the early 1990s (in reality, he was at the end of those years), and in Het Parool columnist Gerard Mulder claims that the fact that he "fortunately knows nothing about art subsidies" need not deter him from some wild speculations... 

Thunder or a minor storm in the Gouda Glasses? You may say

We received a letter on legs from Wim de Groot a while ago. Now we often get letters in paws, but here something seemed to be going on. Trouble of course because sorting it out takes time and money and that wasn't there for a while. (Look out for the donor campaign we are about to launch) But still. What's wrong with it? Wim de... 

"The city's leading free spirits have discovered and embraced classical music, but on their own terms"

An alternative scene for classical events outside the ice palaces of classical music is growing. Last month you could 'classical clubbing' at the Yellow Lounge at the Westergasfabriek venue. The club was sold out, indeed with a large

Museums, Boxmeer theatre, IKON, ANP, regional broadcasters, impoverished library

MuseumgoudA not expelled MuseumgoudA may still remain a member of the Dutch Museum Association (NMV). A majority of the members were still of the opinion in September that the museum should be expelled because it had auctioned Marlene Dumas' The Schoolboys at the end of June without consulting other museums. That is against the NMV's rules. It did, however, decide to change the rules for the... 

Oerol arrives. Competition for Holland Festival on scarce arts pages in Festivalland #hf10

 The Marathon Effect is well known: put spectators together in a theatre for half a day or more, preferably on uncomfortable seats, and hand them over to a couple of actors with a play. Success seems assured, and the ancient Greeks already knew that. So that there would be no discord around the monster project I Demoni, the Dostoevsky adaptation of Peter... 

Jelineks Rechnitz impresses Holland Festival visitors #hf10

Image by Andrew B47 via Flickr Photo: Chris Vanderburght It was time for a real theatrical hit at the Holland festival, after the rather lukewarmly received British-American Shakespeares of Sam Mendes' Bridge Project. And clap it did with Rechnitz by Elfriede Jelinek dooor the best actors of the Münchener Kammerspiele. Karin Veraart of De Volkskrant was deeply impressed: ...Not... 

Meanwhile at the Holland Festival: Press cheers over Dog's Heart and doubts Anne Therese de Keersemaeker #hf10

 Not all was negative around Sam Mendes' Bridge Project, which was received rather sparingly by us at The Dodo, and a few other media outlets. Apart from a few positive Twitter reactions, the performance of The Tempest also garnered a pretty nice review from Volkskrant reviewer Karin Veraart, who admired music, directorial discoveries and acting performances by Stephen Dillane in particular and the fresh couple... 

What the papers say: the music is fine, as usual on #hf10

 Martijn Padding has done something special with Beethoven's 10th. He turned the piece that the deaf composer never really wrote in its entirety into an experience that, as Volkskrant reviewer Frits van der Waa put it, made you feel what it sounded like between Beethoven's ears. According to the NRC, it sounded Impressive: the sphere of creation stripped of all heroism, as if you were passing through two centuries of... 

High praise for Curlew River; less for De Keersemaeker and Mendes #hf10

 Curlew River Photo: Bertrand Stofleth For every independent journalist in the Netherlands, there are about 15 information officers. It is therefore obvious that these spokespeople largely determine the image in the media. Could that be why in the newspapers and television programmes surrounding the Holland Festival, the announcements are far more numerous than the critical reviews? A look at the... 

Press review: webloggers and newspapers unanimously happy with Amal Maher

 Those who missed it, like our Beatrix, will increasingly realise that something important happened, Tuesday 1 June, at the opening of the Holland Festival. Egyptian beauty Amal Maher performed an hour and a half of classical Arabic music at Carré, making her first small step into the Western mainstream. We ourselves were from The... 

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