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How a Belgian Tower Steeped in Colonial Symbolism Became the Setting for African American Emancipation
22 June 2026
In 1941 the Belgian Friendship Building from the 1939 World Fair in New York was re-built on the campus of Virginia Union University. Martin Luther King spoke there, making the building and its tower a focal point of the American Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 60s. This metamorphosis was par
The Afterglow of the Van Gogh Comet
21 November 2024
In a short life and an even shorter existence as an artist, Vincent van Gogh drew and painted an extensive oeuvre that pushed art history in new directions. The glow of the comet that was Van Gogh continues to twinkle, as is evident in three books that reveal new aspects of his life: his drawings st
Ghent University Museum Shows the Beauty and Doubt of Science
2 October 2020
Flanders welcomes another ambitious new museum, the Ghent University Museum (GUM). The GUM does not set out to display a number of scientific truths. Rather, it wants to demonstrate how doubt and beauty are part of the scientific process, by means of a selection of objects from the university’s co
The Book Tower’s Long Tail
25 June 2019
On 23 May 2007 Google and the University of Ghent signed an agreement. As a result, the Book Tower became the fifteenth institution worldwide to join the American company in its ambition to digitize the world's paper heritage. Ghent University Library and the Royal Library in The Hague (14 July 2010


