The Beanery: live!

Watch Edward Kienholz's famous installation work The Beanery (1965) performed live and in a real café! One week only, at 4 p.m. (starting today, until next Friday) Mara Joustra and Thomas Plas, students at the Rietveld Art Academy, will perform this most popular work from the Stedelijk Museum's art collection at café Belgique, Gravenstraat 2 (near Dam square). It's part of Zichtbaar Afwezig (Visibly Absent), a project with art students wh0 make some of the well-known works from the art collection of the Stedelijk visible at several locations in Amsterdam. (The Stedelijk itself is closed until April 2010 due to construction work on their building at Museum square. Photo: Ernst van Deursen.)

Fabchannel stops

I just received an e-mail by Fabchannel. 'We quit,' it says, completely out of the blue. 'Enjoy one more week of free concerts.' Appearantly most record labels still don't allow Fabchannel to film and broadcast their artists concerts. Also the economy gets blamed. After nine years they just can't manage anymore. This evening they live stream Crystal Antlers concert at Paradiso, next Friday they'll pull the plug. It's terrible news and it's a real shame. Where can we now go and watch all the great concerts that we couldn't attend? 

Varèse at Holland Festival 2009

This year's Holland Festival will be taking place June 4-28. The Holland Festival has been the trend-setting performance arts festival in the Netherlands since 1947, annually presenting exceptional work at the international level. This 62nd edition has 'Serenity & Anxiety' as its central theme. There will be special attention for French-American composer and 'Father of Electronic Music' Edgard Varèse (1883-1965). His complete works will be performed, which sounds spectacular. (For those of you who never heard any of his music, you can listen some of it here). The new website for this years edition of the festival has gone online past Tuesday and ticket sales have started. Just so you know, the Antony and the Johnsons concert, together with the Dutch Metropole Orchestra, June 22 at Carré, has already sold out.