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... READ MORE...