Click here to open interactive map The city of Amsterdam has quite some experience in organizing incubator projects, due to the local incubator policy (Broedplaatsenbeleid). Incubator projects are basically contracts of temporary use of vacant buildings, between the owner (private, municipality, housing corporations etc.) and a cultural end-user (individual or group). Subsidies for these projects [...]
After using the elegant WordPress theme called ‘ArtsEmerging’ for three and a half years, designed by Nathalien Stern, it’s time for something else. The new ‘Ettison’ theme design, by Jason Sanzone, is contrasting and crispy and will hopefully last some time as well. Adaptations of the theme were made possible by Fiveblackcats. The reader may [...]
In 1985 a group of actors and their director, in need of a place to perform their plays, decided to bring new life to the abandoned open air theatre in Amsterdam. ´Bostheater´ lies at the southern edge of the city, not far from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, in the middle of a large suburban park from [...]
On 9 August 1945 the US airforce dropped an atomic bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, on Nagasaki. Three days earlier, Little Boy had been dropped on Hiroshima. Nagasaki had a population of about 450.000, 65.000 of whom were either killed or injured by the bomb. The entire city was rebuilt afterwards. The bombing of Nagasaki was [...]
Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS) has preserved a series of photographs of german photographer Hildegard Rosenthal, made during the 1940′s in São Paulo. An online photo gallery can be viewed by clicking here. Read more: Instituto Moreira Salles
