• Cultuur en duurzaamheid

    Culture and sustainability

    The Boekman Foundation devoted the summer issue of Boekman 127 to culture and sustainability: how can the cultural sector contribute to a greener world? "The authors in this issue of Boekman show that culture is ideally suited to make people more aware of sustainability. By making cultural buildings and organizations as environmentally friendly as possible, but also...

  • Kunst in stadsontwikkeling

    Art in urban development

    Art in urban development. Exit- reflections on the farewell of Ronald Stokkel is a publication of the municipality of Leiden.

  • Kunsthandel en kunst & sociale cohesie

    Art trade and art & social cohesion

    The spring edition of this year's Boekman (#122) is about the art trade, or rather the tension in the art market. The summer edition, Boekman #123, has as its theme 'Art and social cohesion', a topical theme in times of corona.

  • The functioning of support measures for artists

    On July 24, the Boekman Foundation published an article by Rogier Brom on the operation of support measures for artists. Below we provide an abridged version with the most important points from the article for visual artists.

  • Duurzaamheid in de culturele sector

    Sustainability in the cultural sector

    The Boekman Foundation and Bureau 8080 produced a publication about sustainability within the cultural sector.

  • Hoe komt de cultuursector uit de coronacrisis?

    How will the cultural sector emerge from the corona crisis?

    Last April 16, the Boekman Foundation published the publication "How does the cultural sector emerge from the corona crisis?" by Rogier Brom and Bjorn Schrijen. The publication is an inventory of what was clear as of April 16 about short- and long-term consequences for the cultural sector of the corona crisis and about the effectiveness of support measures. The...

  • Boekman 121. Financiering van kunst en cultuur

    Boekman 121. Financing art and culture

    The winter 2019/20 edition of Boekman deals with financing in the cultural sector: a complex interplay of subsidy streams, private funding and personal income. This is called stacked financing, the combination of different forms of financing. Below we briefly describe a few chapters.

  • Boekman 120. Kunst als innovator

    Boekman 120: Art as innovator

    Boekman 120 is about the innovative capacity of artists.

  • Boekman 119. Ruimte voor kunst en cultuur in de stad

    Boekman 119. Space for art and culture in the city

    The summer issue of Boekman, number 119, is about the indispensability of art and culture in the city. And about its distribution in the city: bundled in the center or spread across the city including the periphery?

  • Boekman 118. Kunst en maatschappelijk experiment

    Boekman 118. Art and social experimentation

    The spring 2019 issue of Boekman is about "art and social experimentation," or about commons, the common, that which you share, have in common, or the "artists as boosters. In BK Information #3, 2019 an account of some of the articles in this Boekman.

  • Financieringsstromen in de cultuursector

    Funding streams in the cultural sector

    The Council for Culture asked the Boekman Foundation to provide information for its advice on the financing of culture published in February 2019.

  • Provincie en cultuur

    Province and culture

    Leading up to this year's provincial council elections, political parties in the provinces received a flyer last fall with eight points to include culture in their party's election manifesto and, ultimately, perhaps a place in the college agreement.

  • Boekman 117. Culturele arbeidsmarkt

    Boekman 117. Cultural labor market

    For several years now, the cultural labor market has been a topic of conversation. Slowly, earning according to effort and performance in the arts and culture sector is starting to become a matter of course, even if it is still a small one.

  • Rapport Visitatiecommissie Cultuurfondsen

    Cultural Funds Review Committee Report

    By order of the Minister of OCW, the six national public culture funds were inspected in 2018. A committee evaluated the policy and daily practice of the six national public culture funds. The committee's overall assessment is positive. In addition, the report includes recommendations for improvements.

  • Het Culturele Leven

    Cultural Life

    SCP developed a new, independent model to map cultural life in the Netherlands that should make it easier to track developments in the sector. In November, SCP published The Cultural Life, "an impetus (...) to a report on cultural life."

  • Boekman 116. Kunst en techniek

    Bookman 116. Art and technology

    Fall 2018's Bookman is about art and technology, or rather technology. Increasingly, technology is an important part of the visual artist's practice, think of digital techniques and new media. It is not only the artist's practice that is changing as a result, but also the experience of art.

  • Boekman 115. Naar een inclusief cultuurbestel

    Boekman 115. Toward an inclusive cultural system

    Diversity policy in arts and culture is not new. This is evidenced by the articles in this summer's Boekman devoted entirely to inclusiveness in the cultural sector.

  • Boekman 114. Stedelijke regio’s en cultuur

    Boekman 114. Urban regions and culture

    The new cultural planning period with a new cultural note for the period 2021-2024 is just around the corner. Reason for Boekman to focus in the spring 2018 issue on "urban regions," after all, an important part of future cultural policy.

  • Jaarverslag 2017 Mondriaan Fonds

    Annual report 2017 Mondriaan Fund

    The Mondrian Fund's 2017 Annual Report, a beautifully designed booklet, also available as pdf also available as pdf.

  • Collectieve selfie 3. Nog beter zicht op beeldende kunst in Nederland

    Collective selfie 3. An even better view of visual art in the Netherlands

    The Collective selfie 3 - an initiative of Beeldende Kunst Nederland (BKNL) - shows what is available in terms of figures and data on visual art in the Netherlands. It is a representation of existing research and aims to provide insight into information that is already available to enable informed analysis....

  • De actualiteit van het gevorderde kunstenaarschap

    The topicality of advanced artistry

    The Mondriaan Fund recently published the 13th in its essay series. The essay The topicality of advanced artistry by art historian Leo Delfgauw deals with the wealth that advanced artistry offers.

  • Boekman 113. De waarde van cultuur

    Boekman 113. The value of culture

    At the end of 2017, Boekman #113 appeared on the value of culture. After the 2013 round of cuts and the added value of culture that was under fire in the run-up to it, the added value of art and culture is now widely recognised again, including in politics, to a greater or lesser extent and in different ways.

  • Boekman 111. Kunst en de publieke ruimte

    Boekman 111. Art and public space

    Boekman #111 is about art and public space. The Fourth Memorandum on Spatial Planning is from 1988 and now outdated.

  • Boekman 109. Naar een nieuw cultuurbestel

    Boekman 109. Toward a new cultural system

    The winter 2016/2017 edition of Boekman examines desirable and possible reforms in the current cultural system. "Artists and cultural institutions need a redesign of the cultural system, partly because the subsidy conditions are at odds with the way they work. Artists operate multi- rather than mono-disciplinary, they use the latest technologies, enter into alliances....

  • Publicatie Kunsten ‘92: Verleden & toekomst in een eeuwig nu

    Publication Kunsten '92: Past & future in an eternal now

    The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science's annual publication Cultuur in beeld (Culture in Focus) contains a lot of good news; Kunsten '92 shows that this picture of success is relative.

  • Culturele Atlas Brabant: monitor professionele kunsten 2016

    Brabant Cultural Atlas: professional arts monitor 2016

    The Cultural Atlas Brabant focuses on financial and organizational data such as government and fund subsidies, revenue sources, staffing and expenses, and commitment to training and professionalization.

  • Kunst en de stad van de toekomst

    Art and the city of the future

    Boekman 107: For scary ages, more than half the world's population has lived in cities. Boekman therefore devoted an edition to the question of how cities are reinventing themselves.

  • Monitor cultuuronderwijs voortgezet onderwijs 2015

    Cultural education monitor for secondary education 2015

    At the end of last year, the 2015 Cultural Education Monitor for secondary education was published.

  • De nieuwe kunstkritiek

    The new art criticism

    Bookman 106, published in spring 2016, is dedicated to art criticism.

  • Culturele koersen en de Staat van Cultuur

    Cultural courses and the State of Culture

    Boekman #105 and the second Culture Index Netherlands.

  • Archief voor de Toekomst

    Archive for the Future

    An e-publication, published by the brabants kenniscentrum kunst en cultuur (bkkc), on the preservation and management of artists' estates has been published at Archives for the Future.

  • Cultuur in Beeld 2015

    Culture in Pictures 2015

    On November 12, Culture in Beeld 2015, a publication of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, was released.

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