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Zijlstra investigates 'taking root' foreign art students

Many students studying at Dutch art schools are not from the Netherlands. At the request of PVV, supported by the government parties VVD and CDA, State Secretary for Culture Zijlstra is now investigating whether enough of these students also go to work in the Netherlands after their studies. Halbe Zijlstra made this commitment during a general consultation on the sector plan for professional arts education,... 

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... 

There it is: the final legislative amendment deciding the future of 16,500 FTEs and thousands of self-employed people

Veel toe te lichten op de toelichting van Halbe Zijlstra hebben we niet. Anders dan dat de staatssecretaris van voorheen cultuur een bijna leesbare zucht van verlichting slaakt nu hij het hoofdpijndossier 'kunsten' bijna kan afsluiten. Zijn "meesterstuk", de wijziging van de wet op het specifiek cultuurbeleid, ligt bij de kamer en als die (hamerstuk) is goedgekeurd, hoeft de staatssecretaris eigenlijk niets meer te doen.
Daarom begint de toelichting op de wijziging ook met de beantwoording van d...

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The Broadway visitor: lily-white, woman, loyal and well above the Balkenende norm

These are data that somehow do not make the press here, because they are about America, which is not in the Netherlands. Still, it is interesting to take a closer look at the composition of the audience on Broadway. After all, that is where, in the wet dreams of VVD/PVV celebrities like Bart @deliefde and @halbezijlstra, the future of... 

Small selection of great suffering for Christmas week

There will definitely be no investigation into a corporatisation of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. According to the proposal, a council majority wants to have the opportunities to earn more money and save on expenses investigated. A political party earlier suggested that many more visitors and revenue could be brought in with a less elitist programme. At the Money Museum in Utrecht 

A'dam: big loss of art subsidies, fact-free politics at art colleges, sacred museum collections, N-H halts small cultural education, culture in abandoned railway station

'Amsterdam loses 127 million arts subsidy' (...) The 127.1 million euros is a sum of cuts from the state (70 million), the increase in VAT to 19% (45.6 million) and the announced municipal cuts to the 2013-2016 Arts Plan of 8 million annually. In addition, the so-called ID jobs (subsidised jobs) are being phased out more quickly. This will give Amsterdam's arts and cultural institutions another... 

Friday the 25th. Bergen puts extra money into art, while new disasters emerge for the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

Amsterdam - Mayor finds cuts to Rijksakademie "beyond comprehension" During the official opening of RijksakademieOPEN 2011, Mayor of Amsterdam Eberhard van der Laan expressed his concerns about the government's severe cuts to the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. "Cutbacks are necessary. Capitulating is not necessary. There are limits." The mayor stressed that a healthy art climate is important for... 

Fransche School in jeopardy, blind library closed, nibbling on VAT measure via CJP and Volkenkunde/Tropen Institute merger possible

Arnhem - Scepticism over success of cultural heart Rijnboog Arnhem city council has many doubts about the financial feasibility of the Rijnboog arts cluster. (...) [Alderman] assumes 16 million subsidy from the province and another 4 million in contributions from sponsors for the new arts centre containing the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, the Schouwburg and Focus Filmtheater.... 

Halbe Zijltra loves his job more than the ministry dares to show

That Martin Bosma, culture spokesman for the PVV, wants to withdraw the subsidy to Toneelgroep Amsterdam because that company plays works by 'enemy of the people' Tom Lanoye, was not even the most bizarre incident of the culture budget debate on 21 November 2011. More bizarre, too, than the PVV's demand for the establishment of a Colonial Museum celebrating the glory of 'Our Indies',... 

Bare-bones news: Give Act turned from monstrosity into monster, Brabant short 30% on performing arts, North Beveland no longer buys art.

House amends gift deduction in cultural sector (...) A majority of the House wants to limit Cabinet plans for tax deductions in the cultural sector. At the same time, it should become more fiscally attractive to make donations to sports and music associations. VVD, CDA and PVV submitted amendment proposals to this effect to the Giving Act of state secretary Frans Weekers (Finance) on Tuesday. (...) The PVV felt that far too... 

Arts Council 020 reacts to alderman for culture's austerity plan: 'don't make cuts!'

Je kunt je kont tegen de krib gooien, als kunstsector, maar je kunt ook iets anders doen, terwijl je met je grote konijnenogen in de koplampen van een aanstormend kaalslagmonster staart. En wat is dat andere dan, vroeg de Amsterdamse kunstraad zich af? Doodknuffelen, was het antwoord. Toen de Amsterdamse wethouder van Cultuur vorige week haar plan ontvouwde voor de… 

Henk and Ingrid screwed again: Dutch tax advisers burn new Giving Act to the ground

The new Giving Act, the cultural palliative with which the Rutte Cabinet claims to be accommodating the art world, is flawed. We don't say this, because we only know about art, but this is what the Dutch tax consultants say. And they know a lot about your taxes, and little about art. Extremely reliable, in other words. And what virtues... 

Mayor Hoes provides proof: for the VVD, art is only about sport anymore

Anyone who was still left wondering what the vision of the governing VVD party on art is now out. For that vision is simple. Art is sport. According to the VVD. So said the alderman of Rotterdam, so said the spouse of top wrestler Albert Verlinde, the as mayor of Maastricht ancillary runner Onno Hoes. During the opening of the Dutch Dance Days, he gave... 

"1 billion loss? There are other figures." Halbe Zijlstra refers Berenschot report to trash.

At the end of August came the figures. And what figures they were. Due to the stacking of extreme cuts by government, provinces and municipalities, the abolition of the successful Work and Income for Artists Act and the equally successful culture card, plus the VAT increase on the arts, the Netherlands' cultural sector would end up missing out on €1 billion in revenue. Berenschot had estimated that in... 

Budget note: We put together the cultural haircut percentages

Image via Wikipedia Laten we maar weer eens beginnen met de zoveelste slordigheid van het kabinet Rutte: die vermaledijde BTW-maatregel op de kunsten, die als enige naar het ‘normale’ tarief van 19% worden gebonjourd. VVD vindt het niks, CDA is er niet blij mee, maar omdat gedoogspecialist Martin Bosma ooit een keertje een rode paddenstoel moest spelen in het schooltoneelstuk… 

Kick off subsidy addiction requires greater government effort than Zijlstra wants

De tweet van Bart de Liefde Kunstinstellingen zijn subsidieverslaafd en dus trekken we de subsidies in. De insteek van de VVD is helder. Over het precieze hoe, daar blijken ze langer over na te moeten denken, nu er zoveel tegenstand uit het land komt. Cold Turkey, de behandeling die gedoogpartner (leuk woord in dit verband) PVV voorstelt, zou wel eens… 

Rotterdam alderman shocks cultural sector over total lack of knowledge

'En waarom moeten al die kunstinstellingen open op maandag, dinsdag, woensdag en zelfs donderdag? Ik snap dat niet. Ik heb het veel te druk met werken op die dagen.' Zomaar een vraag tijdens het Paradisodebat, het jaarlijkse afsluitertje van de Uitmarkt in Amsterdam. En normaalgesproken kun je dit soort vragen na een paar glazen bier wel verwachten uit het publiek, maar deze vraag kwam dus van de Wethouder Cultuur van Rotterdam, een stad met toch al gauw een paar honderdduizend inwoners.
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Rutte cabinet answers chamber questions on 'unsupported' VAT measure

Dat wordt voer voor kamerstukken-exegeten, al is de vraag of het iets gaat uitmaken. Maar Halbe Zijlstra zegt dat hij niet heeft gezegd dat de BTW-maatregel 'niet de meest voldragen maatregel uit het regeerakkoord was.' Al stond dat dus wel in dat interview met hem in NRC Handelsblad van 8 juli 2011. Destijds vond iedereen dat een grappige knieval voor de redelijkheid door de doorgaans nogal hard en zonder achtergrondkennis opererende verandermanager Zijlstra. Immers: ook de jeugdige politiespec...

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Cultural policy Rutte cabinet advised against by patrons and entrepreneurs; PVV absent from hearing on future of Dutch culture

This is an infographic from a series made by Abel, Niels and Willem at Mediamatic. Based on an idea by Ruben Pater. Eigenlijk was er maar één compliment voor het kabinet, dat bezig is om gemiddeld 30% te korten op een sector die werk geeft aan tienduizenden Nederlanders. Tijdens de hoorzitting die de tweede kamer op maandag 20 juni belegde… 

Dutch ministry of OC&W bases vision 'renewal' cultural funding system on British example

Image via Wikipedia Er zit een interessante ‘drone’ onder, en dat kan iemand als dreigend ervaren. De video aan het eind van dit artikel heeft in ieder geval meer betekenis dan veel cultuurliefhebbers denken. Feit is namelijk dat de ingrijpende bezuinigingen die de Britse regering heeft doorgevoerd via hun ‘Arts Council’ achteraf nauwelijks op protesten zijn gestuit, terwijl de onevenredigheid… 

Province investigates: 'Utrecht worth 1 billion more thanks to arts sector'

Art costs money. The current Rutte administration has hammered that into it: it's expensive, no one but a small club of insiders goes there, and either way those are leftists or pseudo-leftists who can easily pay for it themselves. So much for the government's opinion. The opinion of the art world can be guessed: it is... 

The soup in The Hague is being eaten hotter than it is being served: 'no pass in 2013′

This message has since been confirmed by the Halbe Zijlstra on 14 March. We thank our source for being accurate. We once again visited our trench-coat-clad coughing chain-smoker in his Hague car park. Because there had been no news from The Hague for another week, and with the elections so close to the door, that's always... 

'There are provinces where you can vote VVD or CDA just fine'; new website gives voting tips to art lovers

It looked like a party. Coffee and flan, a Maastricht song, brass band music and a speech by Prince Carnival. Optimism surrounded the launch of the website nadeschreeuwnudestem.nl on 21 February. Surely the cry for culture in November was mainly a voice of dissent. Now there is a chance to take forward-looking action. 'Mobilise everyone you know to join the March 2... 

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