After the Second World War, our admiration for America was at its height: progress and enlightened ideas set the tone for the entire western world. But the Low Countries’ love of the Land of the Free has gradually been coloured by sorrow and frustration. Or at least, this appears to be the case, b
Dutch-language children's books are doing well abroad. But when they deal with taboos, some books are too unconventional for the anglophone market. Research by Lucelle Pardoe shows that especially Dutch publishers encounter these problems, because they target large countries such as the USA and the
St. Eustatius, popularly known as ‘Statia’, is now a little known island in the Dutch Antilles, but it played an important role in America’s War of Independence. When war broke out in 1775, the island’s merchants provided weapons to the rebelling American settlers, and thus made an important
The United States remains the second most popular foreign destination for artists from the Netherlands. In 2018 Dutch talent participated in 2,239 cultural activities in America. No less than 660 artists and artistic organisations showed their work there in 331 different cities. DutchCulture, the ne
The Cultural Attaché is a series of interviews by DutchCulture, the Dutch network and knowledge organisation for international cultural cooperation, with cultural attachés of the Netherlands. How do these attachés help Dutch art and culture? What were their expectations when they were posted abro
At the children's book fair in Bologna, the American publisher Arthur A. Levine and the Dutch Querido announced that they will work together in America under the name Levine Querido. Arthur A. Levine recently announced that, after having worked for the publishing group Scholastic for twenty-three ye
