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How the miracle doctor fell into oblivion - and why writer Rinus Spruit hopes for rehabilitation

by A Quattro Mani
10 November 201930 March 2022
8 min read
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He brought hypnosis and psychotherapy as treatment methods to the Netherlands and had a thriving practice with the well-known writer Frederik van Eeden. But mention the name Albert Willem van Renterghem, and (almost) nobody will ring a bell. With his book De wonderdokter, compiler Rinus Spruit hopes to restore honour. Albert Willem van Renterghem (1845-1939) was once considered "the miracle doctor...

Peppie & UBO: privacy concerns for business leaders and directors. (Why anti-money laundering policies can wreak havoc on culture)

by Fleur Jansen
2 April 201930 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Our government leaders, united in Europe, have come up with something to combat the masking of corruption. It is called UBO register. The Netherlands is also going to introduce it in the near future. This has consequences, also for cultural foundations and associations. Because every organisation has to determine who is a UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner). This causes some complications. In the cultural sector, it is...

'A murder of a whore that involved all the high-ups.' Tomas Ross on the never-explained murder of Blonde Dolly from The Hague

by A Quattro Mani
13 February 201929 March 2022
8 min read
For members only, LITERARY, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

How did the Hague prostitute Blonde Dolly make her millions? And why was her killer never caught, when it was abundantly clear who must have strangled her? That smells like a conspiracy, and conspiracies are like grist to writer Tomas Ross' mill. In Blonde Dolly, he tackles one of the oldest and most mysterious cold cases in the Netherlands. Until it...

DocLab 2018: improve the world, put on VR glasses.

by Helen Westerik
22 November 201830 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, FILM, MEDIA

Slowly but surely, the very latest in virtual reality (VR) is finished and we can start thinking about what you want to show, rather than how. Whereas at the first VR festival I still got whooping headaches from bad glasses, now I can be mesmerised by the beauty of the Amazon or beautiful animations. Movie theatres like Eye...

Nude and naked. Two worlds as far apart as Bergen and Delden. (podcast)

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 November 201829 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, VISUAL, PODCAST

Two private museums in the Netherlands have made human flesh the subject of an exhibition this autumn. In Bergen (NH) it is about Bare, and in Delden (Ov) it is about Nude. But where one exhibition (at Museum Kranenburg in Bergen) seems to be mainly an ode to the free-spirited 1970s and what happened afterwards, Museum No Hero in Delden puts...

'Nothing to Hide' in Nijmegen. A dragnet festival to objectively inform citizens

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 March 201829 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Festival Atlas, SPECIALS, SPONSORED

Apart from a lot of confusion, the advisory referendum law has also created a new category of festivals. The 'Ukraine referendum' spawned at least one festival (at Amsterdam's De Balie debating centre) and the dragnet referendum on 21 March 2018 prompted the 'Niks te Verbergen' dragnet festival in Nijmegen. Prominent member of the organising team is Viola van Alphen. With her foundation Violavirus...

The Nation at the Holland festival: a theatre addiction in the making #HF17

by Hannah Roelofs
10 May 201729 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

Netflix and HBO are now purveyors of our conversations with friends, family and colleagues. The ultimate icebreaker at a party with strangers is talking about series, about beloved characters. Is Jon Snow still alive? Where is Barb? Having seen the first two working performances of 'The Nation', I have a strong impression that in Eric de Vroedt I have a fellow lover...

Amira, stop imitating opera arias, take singing lessons while you still can!

by Rudolf Hunnik
19 December 201630 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MEDIA, OPERA, PODIUM ART, TELEVISION

Nine-year-old Amira Willighagen was when she won the TV talent show 'Holland's got talent' in 2013 with opera arias. Her Puccini aria 'O mio babbino caro' still attracts millions of viewers on YouTube. What makes Amira so immensely popular? Is it her singing skills or is it her adorable childlike appearance? In Huizen, a village in the Gooi region, she gave a concert with...

Edward Snowden and Oliver Stone make a resounding statement

by Jaïr Tchong
12 November 201629 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, FILM

In the presence of Amnesty International and Edward Snowden - via a video link from Moscow - Oliver Stone's new film Snowden premiered at Tuschinski on Thursday night. The dramatised story of the young, gifted public servant who is troubled by conscience and decides to go to the press is not very original or compellingly portrayed. But on the wave of...

Wunderbaum sends you into the night with a smile #HF16

by Hannah Roelofs
23 June 201620 February 2017
3 min read
Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

This year's Holland Festival spotlights Rotterdam-based theatre collective Wunderbaum with the revival of 'The Coming of Xia', premieres of 'Privacy' and 'The Future of Sex' and the film 'Stop acting now'. With this film, Wunderbaum concludes their four-year project 'The New Forest', a 'Platform for social change', according to Wunderbaum, "The New Forest depicts transition and casts a...

Tantalising intimacy porn in 'Privacy' raises relevant questions #HF16

by Hannah Roelofs
11 June 201620 February 2017
3 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

Wine Dierickx ( Wunderbaum) and Ward Weemhoff (The Hot Shop) are an artist couple and we will know it. Engaging and with humour, they take us into their private lives or that which we think that is their private life. Know after all, we don't do it.

The Walking Forest is performance you definitely want to watch twice (HF16)

by Helen Westerik
9 June 201629 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, PODIUM ART, SPECIALS, THEATER

Brazilian Christiane Jatahy was at the Holland Festival last year with the play What If they went to Moscow. She came, saw and conquered. This year, she comes with the final part of the trilogy of stage adaptations, The Walking Forest. The title refers to the three witches in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, who foretell his rise and fall. The play was the starting point for a performance with four video screens, a bar, an actress, a dead fish and, oh yes, an audience.

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Hitler on Hacking habitat (Roy Villevoye)

Hacking Habitat: battle for total digital power impressively depicted

by Wijbrand Schaap
27 February 201630 March 2022
5 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, VISUAL

In the corridor leading to the airspace, a shabby man stands leaning against the wall. Exhausted, cold, untouchable. It is a young Adolf Hitler, portrayed by Roy Villevoye as the homeless, failed artist he once was. Now he is at Hacking Habitat and full of potential, according to the caption. The art manifestation that has taken possession under that title in...

Holland Festival 2016: urgent, challenging and inviting

by Maarten Baanders
10 February 201620 February 2017
8 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, FILM, Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS, THEATER

Never before has the Holland Festival placed itself at the centre of society as it is today. The 2016 programme is steeped in the turbulent times in which we live. The Netherlands holds the presidency of the European Union this spring. Artistic director Ruth Mackenzie has taken this fact unflinchingly to give 'Europe' a wide place in the programming. In presenting...

The best books of 2015

by A Quattro Mani
31 December 20152 August 2020
6 min read
LITERARY, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Lists are always fun at the end of the year. The best this, the best that, and then a top ten or top five. We could not yet make a list of books to take with us to a desert island, but we have done our best to make a (small) choice from the pile of books we have read in the past year....

IDFA viewing tip for Wednesday 18 November

by Helen Westerik
18 November 201530 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, FILM

The first IDFA tip of the day is immediately a double bill and both films are decades old. They are in the top 10 of Errol Morris, this year's chief guest. Las Hurdes - Tierra sin Pan by Luis Bunuel is a half-hour film that made documentary history. Bunuel was also known then for Un...

Q61-Cemetery

Dancing in the cemetery? Should be possible, thinks choreographer Ann Van den Broek

by Ruben Brugman
23 May 201525 May 2015
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

It is a special year for Ann Van den Broek as she celebrates a 15-year anniversary as a choreographer. That the performance Q61 Cemetery of dance collective WArd/waRD would cause so much noise she probably did not foresee.

Karl Ove Knausgard opens Writers Unlimited with strong appeal to individualism #wu15

by Wijbrand Schaap
16 January 201526 October 2018
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, SPECIALS, Writers Unlimited

"Everyone who writes will sooner or later run into a wall, a limit of what cannot, should not and should not be written. And almost everyone will flinch at that moment and refrain from writing it. Because that wall is there to protect us from what we don't want." Karl Ove Knausgård, already compared by some to Marcel Proust,...

The Speech Doctor reviews: Hans de Zwart of Bits of Freedom

by Hannah Roelofs
12 November 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

" Dear friends of Free Knowledge," With these words the president of Wikimedia Netherlands, Frans Grijzenhout concludes his welcome speech of the Wikipedia conference. In a conference venue at Hoog-Catharijne, I am surrounded by some 120 ' Wikipedians', as they call themselves. As in any subculture, it is clear to see who belongs to the regular incrowd. Wikipedians look like...

Grindr experiment in Berlin discontinued. Artist meets boundaries 'theatre of experience'

by Wijbrand Schaap
8 October 20142 April 2022
6 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Forty roofless hotel rooms, and then hearing your own story back as you see yourself reflected in the distant ceiling. Or: walking behind a guide through the Lombok district of Utrecht, while being provided with an overload of extra information on your headphones. About your guide. Or not. About yourself. Welcome to the universe of Dries Verhoeven, since a small...

'Theatre club' from US takes to the web.

by Wijbrand Schaap
25 March 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

In fact, after 1 click, you're totally in. The latest project from Philadelphia-based New Paradise Laboratories (NPL) (USA) takes the internet experience to a new level. The creators don't just do anything with a website, but create a virtual existence, which they sustain for at least a year. In their latest project Extremely Public Displays of Privacy,...

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