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A Sea Change in Ostend
14 July 2022
On a visit to the Flemish coastal town of Ostend, Derek Blyth discovers grand architecture, a world-famous soul singer and the perfect shrimp croquette.
James Ensor’s Baths at Ostend Recomposed
23 April 2021
Award-winning art photographer Athos Burez tackled The Baths of Ostend, the famous painting by James Ensor, and gave it his own interpretation. Hundreds of actors were needed for this project.
Van Gogh Museum Shows How Artists Present Themselves in Their Portraits
27 February 2020
How do we picture ourselves? Now we take a selfie, in the past artists made a self-portrait. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is presenting its first exhibition focusing on artist's portraits and tells stories about identity and image.
James Ensor, Painter of Both the Exalted and the Vulgar
18 November 2019
On 19 November it will be 70 years since James Ensor died in a hospital in Ostend. Writer Koen Peeters, who published his novel A Room in Ostend this year, brings an ode to this ‘realist, pleinairist, painter of light and masks’, who would go and salute his own statue at the casino.