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Culture Society Spiegeloog 412: Happiness

The (Metal) Kids Are Alright

Dark shirts with dangerous-looking, bloody faces on it, black dyed hair and a slightly annoyed facial expression. Is that how you imagine a ‘metalhead’, a…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloJune 18, 2021

Culture Spiegeloog 412: Happiness Words to Start

Words to Start: Love After Love by Derek Walcott

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloMay 17, 2021

Bacchus Culture News & opinion Spiegeloog 411: Power

Bacchus: Off the (Power) Grid

While you can’t travel the world physically, you can still travel it in your mind. With the pandemic exercising a lot of power on our…

Julius DullaertMay 14, 2021

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 411: Power

Camera Obscura: La Belle Époque

‘Nostalgia sells better and better now.’, chimes in a chap at the beginning of La Belle Époque. Indeed, the lure of nostalgia is certainly something…

Nitya ShahApril 8, 2021

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 410: Rainbows

Camera Obscura: Disclosure

‘I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve been in a public space, particularly early in my transition in New York City, when I…

Avanti VijayFebruary 22, 2021

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 409: Conflict

Camera Obscura: Abducted in Plain Sight

Abducted in Plain Sight, a true-crime documentary from 2017 that recently debuted on Netflix tells the shocking story of the kind-hearted and friendly neighbour of…

Elise van GravenJanuary 4, 2021

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 408: Consequences

Camera Obscura: Babies

Are you curious about how a human being develops starting from birth? The time you studied the world most intensively, was when you were a…

Bianca Moraru and Magda MatetoviciNovember 9, 2020

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 406: The Unknown

Camera Obscura: Tenet

If you enjoy the subject of time travel, chances are you have had some long, confusing thoughts about how traveling back in time would affect…

Julius DullaertSeptember 14, 2020

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 405: Together

Camera Obscura – Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak

Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak, is a Netflix docuseries composed of six episodes under an hour-long, released on January 22nd 2020. Somewhat coincidentally, its…

Elizabeth Helen RouhaJune 1, 2020

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 404: Experience

Camera Obscura: El Hoyo

Imagine this – one day, you wake up to find yourself in a place where your status in society is determined arbitrarily, and that status…

Ofelya AliyevaMay 8, 2020

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 403: Global

Camera Obscura: A Million Little Pieces

Imagine a house party: A living room full of people, loud dance music and flashing lights. In the centre of it all, you see one…

Julius DullaertApril 1, 2020

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 402: Appearances

Camera Obscura: Hope Gap

Divorce dramas don’t need an innovative story-line to succeed. The sheer emotional violence that leaves the former lovers heartbroken is often enough to immerse the…

Valentin WeberMarch 4, 2020

Art Affairs Culture Spiegeloog 402: Appearances

Art Affairs: Adorned – The Fashionable Show

What do you do when everyday images do not resemble you or your close ones, appearance-wise? Tyler Mitchell, a 26-year-old american photographer, took inspiration and…

Annabel SimjouwMarch 2, 2020

Art Affairs Culture Spiegeloog 401: Dreams

Art Affairs: Dreams – Monet’s Garden

Monet's famous paintings of his water lilies would almost not have existed. When Monet moved to Giverny, France in 1883, his neighbours heavily opposed his…

Annabel SimjouwFebruary 10, 2020

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 401: Dreams

Camera Obscura: And Then We Danced

Does dancing give you the opportunity to break free from the rules? In the Georgian movie And Then We Danced, we follow Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani),…

Annabel SimjouwFebruary 3, 2020

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 400: Psychology & Writing

Camera Obscura: The Mind, Explained

The Mind, Explained – first released on 12th September 2019, on Netflix – does a decent job at bridging the gap between scientific and laymen…

Lydia TianJanuary 20, 2020

Art Affairs Culture Spiegeloog 400: Psychology & Writing

Art Affairs: Writing about Psychology – Rothko & me

The exhibition Rothko & me consists of a single painting, Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8 and has to be visited alone. Upon entering you’re…

Annabel SimjouwJanuary 8, 2020

Culture Society Spiegeloog 400: Psychology & Writing

Joker: A Dangerous Movie?

No movie has recently stirred up quite the debate like Todd Phillips’ Joker. Numerous articles have been written about the movie, long before it came…

Annabel SimjouwJanuary 6, 2020

Culture Spiegeloog 399: Attention

Decennia geleden schreef de existentieel filosoof Sartre het filmscript Freud, over de beginjaren van Sigmund Freuds wetenschappelijke carrière. Na decennia heeft Internationaal Theater Amsterdam het…

Wolter de BoerDecember 27, 2019

Culture People Spiegeloog 399: Attention

On Stigma and Art

With the rise of the discussion on stigma regarding psychological disorders, a vary of parties have picked up on the battle against this. One of…

Annabel SimjouwDecember 22, 2019

Camera Obscura Culture Spiegeloog 399: Attention

Camera Obscura: Hors Normes

The drama Hors Normes starts in the heart of Paris. Here, the audience is immediately introduced to a child diagnosed with a severe form of…

Elise van GravenDecember 9, 2019

Art Affairs Culture Spiegeloog 399: Attention

This exhibition questions the concept of ‘one shared reality’

In a new exhibition by Beautiful Distress, Yasmijn Karhof asks patients and employees of King County Hospital about their concept of reality.

Annabel SimjouwOctober 4, 2019

Art Affairs Culture

Art Affairs: Money – Ed van der Elsken

‘I want to make movies as an individual expression, not to make money.’ Ed van der Elsken, a Dutch photographer, seemed to care little about money.…

Annabel SimjouwJuly 16, 2019

Camera Obscura Culture

Camera Obscura: Three Identical Strangers

The documentary Three identical strangers, directed by Tim Wardle, starts like a feel-good movie where three long lost brothers find each other and immediately hit…

Lisanne van der VeldenJuly 10, 2019

Art Affairs Culture

Art Affairs: Space – Dolf Verlinden

How does art relate to the space it finds itself in? Where does the artwork end and where do its surroundings begin? These are some…

Annabel SimjouwJune 24, 2019