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Antwerp voted city of the year - slow urbanism acclaimed
Antwerp has been voted the best city in Europe by the London-based Academy of Urbanism. The prestigious award, which aims to recognise the best urban environments in Europe, was decided by a panel of...
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Flemish manuscripts go digital
The world’s oldest anatomy textbook, published by Andreas Vesalius in 1570, can now be studied online, along with hundreds of other old and rare books. The website Flandrica.be has been set up by six...
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Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt (1923 - 2012)
The Dutch minimalist composer Simeon ten Holt has died in Alkmaar at the age of 89. Born in Bergen in 1923, Ten Holt was best known for the epic piano work Canto ostinato (see video above) which he...
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Letter written jointly by Van Gogh and Gauguin goes on sale
A unique four-page letter written jointly by Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin is to go on sale at Christie’s auction house in Paris, according to The Guardian. The letter, written on cheap paper...
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New work by Erwin Olaf on show in Arnhem
New works by the Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf are currently on show at the Arnhem museum of modern art MMKA. Titled Regressive, the exhibition features the photo series Dusk and Dawn of 2009 and the...
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Holocaust museum opens in Mechelen
A new €22 million Holocaust Museum has opened in a former barracks building in Mechelen used for the deportation of more than 25,000 Jews and gypsies in World War Two. The Dossin barracks was the...
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Dutch animator Gerrit van Dijk (1938 - 2012)
The Dutch animator Gerrit van Dijk has died at the age of 73. Born in 1938 in the village of Uden, Van Dijk studied at Tilburg Academy and began his career as a painter. He turned to animation after...
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Flemish art archives go digital on Dutch website
The Rubenianum art archive in Antwerp has launched an ambitious project to put its collection online. Established in 1963, the little-known archive was created in a building at the back of the Rubens’...
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Hella S. Haasse’s classic novel finally published in Britain
Hella S. Haasse’s 1948 novella Oeroeg, a chronicle of colonial life in the Dutch East Indies, has finally appeared in an English translation. Published by Portobello Books under the title The Black...
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Wim Vandekeybus opens dance studios in Brussels
The New York Times described him as the most exciting and original modern dance choreographer at work today. But it has taken the Belgian choreographer 25 years to find a permanent base for his...
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‘Amsterdam USA’: a road trip across America
Two Dutch filmmakers based in Belgium for the past thirty years have just completed a documentary called Amsterdam Stories USA in which they film a road trip across America in search of towns named...
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Dutch and Flemish writers hit new heights
Writing in Dutch can be a lonely struggle when most of the world converses in English. But an exciting new event called High Impact: Literature from the Low Countries aims to showcase some of the most...
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Ghent altarpiece restoration reveals hidden secrets
The restoration of the 15th-century Ghent Altarpiece painted by Jan and Hubert van Eyck, which began last October, is beginning to yield secrets that have been hidden for centuries. Conservator Bart...
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Ever Meulen wins prestigious design prize
The Brussels comic strip artist Ever Meulen likes to draw cartoons that celebrate shiny cars, modern architecture and impossibly beautiful women. Since the early 1960s, his cartoons have become part...
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Last Congo steamer goes on sale
The last surviving steamer to sail between Antwerp and the Belgian Congo is up for sale. The Charlesville has been put on the market for the symbolic price of one euro, although the buyer will have to...
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Cold weather raises hopes of Elfstedentocht in The Netherlands
Anyone visiting the Netherlands these days will have noticed the one word on everyone’s lips is Elfstedentocht. As temperatures drop below zero, people on trams and cafés are all asking the same...
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Panamarenko house opens to the public
The former home of the Antwerp artist Panamarenko has opened its doors to a limited number of visitors following several years of renovation work. The neoclassical town house – which he shared with...
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Philippe Vandenberg gets solo show in London
The Ghent artist Philippe Vandenberg had a bleak view of the role of painting, which he once described as “a rehearsal for death.” His tormented life ended in 2009 when he committed suicide at the age...
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Stephan Vanfleteren wins Dutch photography prize
The Belgian photographer Stephan Vanfleteren has won the prestigious Dutch National Photographic Portrait Prize with his portrait of the Rotterdam architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas. The jury praised...
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Roger Raveel dies aged 91
Roger Raveel, who died on Wednesday at the age of 91, was a much-loved artist with a warm personality and an optimistic vision. Anyone who has visited the Groeninge Museum in Bruges will remember his...
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