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The New Institute

At last. Interest groups arts and creative industries seek collaboration

by Wijbrand Schaap
19 July 201930 March 2022
3 min read
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It is actually a footnote in the press release that lobby organisation Kunsten '92 sent out into the world today. But, as always with footnotes, it did contain the most important news. Because Kunsten 92, the club in which organisations in the arts sector polder, is "exploring cooperation" with the Creative Industry Federation. The latter is the Arts '92 of everything that is also culture and creativity,...

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IFFR 2019: What I learned about internet memes, and how they infect films.

by Leo Bankersen
29 January 201919 August 2019
6 min read
FILM, INTERNET, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

Rabbit Hole is the name of the programme with which the International Film Festival Rotterdam dives into the world of internet memes. With a Meme Café, vlogging Chinese and the dazzling feminist pamphlet Make Me Up.

Curious: arts sector support institutes turn against plans for new theatre and music sector institutes

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 November 201830 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

There are quite a few petitions floating around these days. The most curious of all petitions was in the digital mailbox today. In it, the existing support institutes in the cultural sector urge the Lower House not to put money into new support institutes. In doing so, clubs such as the Landelijk Kennniscentrum Amateurkunst (LKCA), Cultuur+Ondernemen, and the Boekmanstichting put in a small but...

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Culture Council fill-in exercise offers hardly any surprises

by one of our members
19 May 201630 March 2022
8 min read
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Champagne at BAK in Utrecht, deep disappointment at The New Institute in Rotterdam: the Council for Culture has spoken. Today, Thursday 19 May 2016, the first advice after the draconian art cuts by the first Rutte cabinet came out, and heads are rolling. Amsterdam loses prestigious presentation institution De Appel, in The Hague fellow institution Stroom has to redo its homework. The Orkest van het Oosten and the Gelders Orkest have to come up with merger plans within two years....

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Cultural governance code needs maintenance: who monitors supervisor?

by Wijbrand Schaap
30 April 201630 March 2022
5 min read
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'Ultimately, of course, it ends up on my plate,' sighed Jet Bussemaker, minister of culture in cabinet Rutte II, the other day. She was speaking at the presentation of a research report into the functioning of supervisors in the cultural sector, in Amstelveen at the end of April. Because, she summed up: if supervision fails, there is no one but the minister to repair the damage.

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Let zzp'ers keep the supervisory boards of cultural companies on their toes!

by Giep Hagoort
23 August 201529 March 2022
3 min read
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How next for boards in the cultural sector? Supervisory boards are under considerable pressure following publications about possible failed supervision at Rotterdam's Wereldmuseum, Grand Theatre in Groningen and recently again from Rotterdam's Het Nieuwe Instituut. Previously, similar reports appeared about De Utrecht Games and the Groninger Museum, among others. In practically all cases, the cases involved a Council...

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'Less progress!" shouts the festival. DEAF finds the future a bit scary this time.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 May 201411 July 2016
3 min read
VISUAL

We are all a little afraid of losing control. So we are reluctant to like 'Europe', we are frightened by the unprecedented world powers lurking in our mobile communication devices and we think the public transport chip card is an onion, while every day we are motivated to want newer, better, higher, more.

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Erwin Olaf's sets in context, or: why should your visitors come back to your museum?

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 November 201329 March 2022
5 min read
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Erwin Olaf has a thing for wallpaper. The art photographer, known for his hushed and ominous compositions, thinks what is on a wall is at least as important as what happens in front of it. The New Institute has now managed to combine that idea nicely in an exhibition that shows both the sets of Erwin Olaf's most famous works and a few wallpaper designs from the quivers of great artists. It works and is absolutely beautiful to see, but what's in a corner of the ten...

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Happy jerk or depressed bacteria? Biodesign is the future, according to William Myers

by Wijbrand Schaap
26 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
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What idiot could come up with that, one of the attendees wondered: that you can make electrical circuits by combining the DNA of an algae with that of a hamster? Just a question that comes to mind when walking around the exhibition Biodesign, on show in Rotterdam from 27 September to 5 January (2014). And then there's...

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Oudolf's sturdy sprites replace floating trestles in Rotterdam harbour

by Wijbrand Schaap
12 September 201330 March 2022
3 min read
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Piet Oudolf, the Dutch garden artist who changed the face of New York, is best known in the Netherlands as a glorified plant book author. After many major cities worldwide, Rotterdam is the first city in the Netherlands to have a park designed by the now 69-year-old designer. And immediately it becomes clear what we have missed so much in our 'public green space' all these years. So it is absolutely right that Oudolf is awarded the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund Prize in November.

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