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Derek Blyth takes you on micro adventures to L-Spots, hidden and exciting places in the Low Countries. This week he goes on a literary pilgrimage in Willem Elsschot’s Antwerp.
No house is more Dutch than the terraced house. Yet this type of house has only recently come to be valued as it should. Time to redress the balance.
Where are the official apologies for the sufferings the Dutch and Belgians caused in their former colonies?
The artist from The Hague builds overwhelming experiences in the form of large installations.
Mobility policy in France, Belgium and the Netherlands is making way for the bicycle, with Groningen as a founding example.
The festival season has barely started, but, already, the Ghent artist with Caribbean roots seems to be making her mark this year.
The European elections in the Low Countries did not provide clear-cut results. The voters were dispersed across multiple different parties.
Cross-border solidarity in Belgium and the Netherlands is more popular than the political debate suggests.
Reinier Salverda scrutinises the translation of what still is “the greatest novel ever in Dutch literature”.
When natural processes and the laws of physics lead to compelling, lyrical artefacts.
Flanders' most colourful and most cosmopolitan rocker turned 70.
What's at stake on Sunday? Political scientist Herwig Reynaert is looking ahead.
Travel diaries written by Dutch men and women born more than two centuries ago suggest that stress is not a recent phenomenon.
The Antwerp museum is the first ever to be established solely around the existing collection of one person.
Two Flemish merchants left an imprint on the history of the Portuguese island of Madeira that is still visible today.
Pinkster came across to the United States with the 17-th century Dutch settlers.
Roland Gunst – half Flemish, half Congolese – uses installations, performances, film and video to explore the search for his own identity.
A selection of recent university press publications about the Low Countries in English.
Over the centuries, many Dutch people have contributed to Asian culture and society in various ways.
Forty years after his death, the novels of Louis Paul Boon, Flanders' most anti-authoritarian writer, are still worth reading.
In Catholic Flanders, the Mother of God was a cherished subject for painters. Not so in Dutch painting.
