[P2P-F] Fwd: Netherlands : €200 million slashed from the arts and culture budget

Thu Jun 30 15:34:26 CEST 2011

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:23 PM
Subject: Netherlands : €200 million slashed from the arts and culture budget
To: econowmix at googlegroups.com

http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2011/06/the-dark-age-netherlands

excerpt :

“A new Dark Age for Dutch Culture

“The letter ‘Meer dan kwaliteit’ (‘More than Quality’) by the State
Secretary for Culture, Halbe Zijlstra (VVD, People’s Party for Freedom and
Democracy) arrived in the electronic mailboxes of Dutch art and cultural
institutes on Friday, 10 June 2011. It stated that €200 million would be
brutally slashed from the arts and culture budget, starting as early as 1
January 2013.

“Apparently, Zijlstra, who admits that he lacks any understanding of art and
culture, has blatantly ignored all the recommendations made to him on this
subject, including those from the Arts Council (the government’s official
advisory body). Subsidies for a limited number of ‘world-class institutes’
such as the Nederlandse Opera, which already receive a substantial portion
of the existing budget, will be maintained. As far as Zijlstra is concerned,
most of the other institutes can disappear – they will no longer be able to
rely on structural support from the government.

“This not only applies to all the production houses for theatres, half of
the orchestras, the Muziekcentrum Nederland (formed in a recent merger), the
Foundation Art and Public Domain (SKOR), renowned exhibition spaces and
research facilities for visual art such as De Appel, but also to the
entirely new media sector with its internationally acclaimed institutes such
as V2_, the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Mediamatic, WORM, the
Waag Society and STEIM, as well as to the Rijksakademie, de Ateliers and the
Jan van Eyck Academy. Support for critical-analytical journals such as Open
and Metropolis M, and for the literary magazines, including De Gids, will be
discontinued. Furthermore, the budget that will be allocated to project
subsidies, i.e., for individual artists, one-off projects and festivals,
will be more than halved. Only ‘international world-class talent’ and art
that has already proven itself will remain.

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