We had done the necessary research work ourselves, and then it turned out that something had also been sent to the House of Representatives, which contained many more figures. We asked for those figures and were shocked. After 2012, when the current arts plan expires and after a year of inaction and wait-and-see for the entire sector, a...
Now in terms of tax money, they already spend hardly anything on the arts, in America. But many think even that is too much. Earlier, we reported on Facebook and Twitter about Republican America's call to abolish subsidies altogether. Meanwhile, the president of the National American Arts Fund NAE (National Endowment of the Arts) has taken a bat...
We already thought something was wrong when Mark Rutte, in his much applauded show of strength in Buitenhof, spoke of 'all those empty halls with 10 people in the front row'. Ok, he hadn't been there himself for years, but according to his State Secretary Halbe Zijlstra, at least in The Hague, the emptiness was glaring, Rutte knew....
The Hague is quite complicated for those who do not visit it on a daily basis. I was there last Monday, as a spectator at the discussion of the culture and media budget, and it has taken me until now to fully understand what is going on. For that understanding, being there live was essential. After all, to understand a social system like the Lower House, you not only have to listen to what is being said, and see who is speaking, much more important are the 'listening shots': the body language and actions of those who are not speaking.
We were at a debate day in The Hague that was as inconspicuous as it was historic on 13 December 2010: it was about the budget of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the (first?) Rutte cabinet, and that was the budget in which, at the request of the supporting party PVV, the amount to be cut in the arts budget was set at 200 million, with heritage and museums having to...
Motto van de cultuurbrief van Zijlstra: "De 19e-eeuwse schilder Alma-Tadema zei: ‘Zolang ik schilder, ben ik kunstenaar, als het af is, ben ik zakenman’." Het kunstsubsidiesysteem is als een huis, dat iets te vaak van eigenaar verwisselt. De vorige eigenaar heeft in 2008 na lang vergaderen een nieuwe keuken ingebouwd, de badkamer vervangen, een nieuwe cv-ketel + vloerverwarming aangelegd en…
De VVD fractie in de Eerste Kamer dreigt de door het CDA-VVD-PVV kabinet voorgestelde verhoging van de BTW op kaartjes voor podiumkunsten op de lange baan te schuiven. Dat meldt het Nederlands Dagblad vandaag. Volgens Geassocieerde Pers Dienst-redacteur Laurens Kok blijkt dat uit de woorden van de fractieleider van de VVD in die kamer, Fred de Graaf. We citeren: Waarnemend…
It was a pleasantly out-of-control flashmob: according to the police, there were around 3,000 people on The Hague's Malieveld at around noon. Young people, mostly: students from The Hague Art Academy and the Consevatorium. But that is not enough to make the Malieveld feel crowded. From all corners of the country, young art students were...
Vandaag (vrijdag 24 september 2010) is in het Amsterdamse Debatcentrum De Balie de aftrap gegeven van de acties van de kunstwereld tegen de door het nieuwe kabinet van CDA en VVD, gedoogd door PVV voorgenomen bezuinigingen van 21% op de begroting van OC&W. Voor wie de berichten daarover nog niet heeft gevonden in de reguliere media: de sociale netwersite ’twitter’…
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