Newsletter 19

In this Newsletter I regularly report on what I notice in the world around me. To a large extent, this is the art world, but related topics are also discussed: working conditions, social value and innovation. Everywhere in society where art is and can be of...

The lesson of the Trump victory for the art world

November 13, 2016 Trump for president. Who would have thought so. More people than you think. The dichotomy in the US is stronger than we wanted to acknowledge. Alie Hochschild wrote a wonderful book about it:. Strangers in Their own country a divide between the high...

The art of funding the arts

October 22 2016 The combination of art and money is and remains interesting. In earlier times, an artist had  a client and was paid per job,  if he was employed by a rich man, a patron, he produced works in paid employment. The best art works produced this way we can...

The Art of Impact, a program without impact?

The Art of Impact: the Dutch two-year program of € 7 million subsidizing art projects with social impact in two rounds. At the first round, there were 428 applications and 36 projects were approved, in the second round 50 projects from the 290 applications received...

David Byrne against Spotify

David Byrne (ex-Talking Heads) speaks out against Spotify. Why? Revenues go mostly to record labels and almost nothing to artists. So he has taken most of his work off Spotify. Also Adele has her doubts when launching her new album. David goes further to say that if...