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Robin Goudsmit
3 min reading time
Robin Goudsmit - Whiteness: My Manual
Eighteen young authors have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. Robin Goudsmit wrote a manual to accompany a painting.
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Mirjam Noorduijn
7 min reading time
The Ultra-Fine Pen of Visual Story-Teller Ludwig Volbeda
Book after book, this young and much-acclaimed Dutch illustrator knows how to surprise.
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Jan van Eyck
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Maarten Buser
5 min reading time
Installation Artist Gabey Tjon a Tham Merges Layers of Reality
Dutch installation artist Gabey Tjon a Tham is intrigued by the similarities between nature and technology.
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Ciska Hoet
5 min reading time
Camping Sunset Makes Classic Theatre Repertoire Exciting Again
Camping Sunset proves that old and new, traditional theatre repertoire and rock-’n-roll, truly can go hand in hand.
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On the Shoulders of the Old Masters
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Annette Embrechts
6 min reading time
From Simple Movement to Mythical Feat, the Uncompromising Theatre of Schwalbe
A crowd continually running laps of a stage and actors tearing one another’s clothes off. Meet the radical, uncompromising theatre of Schwalbe.
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Fillip Tielens
6 min reading time
Big and Grand. The Indomitable Imagination of FC Bergman
With their extraordinarily imaginative, poetic, grand-scale productions, the Antwerp theatre collective FC Bergman was quick to conquer the European stage.
Museum Explorer
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Sophia Blyden
3 min reading time
Sophia Blyden - Empty Space
Eighteen young authors have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. Sophia Blyden wrote her text in response to a sculpture of Lorenzo Bartolini.
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CODART
2 min reading time
Paintings by Aelbert Cuyp in Los Angeles and Leipzig Were Separated
It has long been suspected that two landscape paintings by Cuyp belonged together but until now, scientific proof was missing.
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Forgotten Female Painters
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Tom Christiaens
8 min reading time
Harvest of the University Press (autumn 2021)
Our selection of recent university press publications from all over the world that deal with the Low Countries.
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Ian Mundell
6 min reading time
Laurens Legiers Distils the Essence From Dream Images
The Antwerp painter takes animals, plants, and sailing boats, and formalises them, creating motifs that repeat through his paintings.
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Tom Christiaens
1 min reading time
Lost Drawing by Rubens Returns Home After Four Centuries
The Flemish Government has purchased a drawing by Flemish Master Peter Paul Rubens that was thought to be lost.
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Tijl Nuyts
7 min reading time
The Porous Paradises of Bram Demunter
The Flemish painter lets you lose yourself in the multiplicity of the world at his first solo exhibition.
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Ilja M. Veldman
7 min reading time
Allart Van Everdingen, the Man Who Fell in Love With Waterfalls and Spruce Trees
Four hundred years after his birth, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar is staging the first retrospective of his diverse oeuvre.
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Virginie Platteau
6 min reading time
Villa Empain, an Art Deco Palace for Art and Intercultural Dialogue
Private residence, Russian embassy, and headquarters of a TV station. Villa Empain in Brussels has been all of these.
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CODART
3 min reading time
Restored ‘Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest’ Returns to Rubens House
The original paint layer has been exposed again, revealing details that have remained hidden for many years.
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Ian Mundell
6 min reading time
Maika Garnica Conjures Soundscapes From Clay
The Belgian-Bolivian artist translates form and material into sound, building objects in clay and playing them to produce atmospheric soundscapes.
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Geke Dijkstra
3 min reading time
‘Angels of Amsterdam’: Dutch Virtual Reality Experience at Venice International Film Festival
'Angels of Amsterdam' is a virtual reality experience based on the true stories of four 17th century women fighting for their rights.
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Tom Christiaens
4 min reading time
450-Year-Old Flemish Painting ‘Vegetable Seller’ Restored
Technical analysis and research link the painting to the important 16th-century still-life painter Joachim Beuckelaer.
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Maarten Buser
5 min reading time
Cream on Chrome Designs Technology with a Human Touch
The Rotterdam-based duo explores the human dimension in technology with interactive design.
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Derek Blyth
3 min reading time
Where Rubens Laid His Head to Rest
Looking for exciting places in the Low Countries, British journalist Derek Blyth stumbled upon the castle where baroque painter Rubens spent the last years of his life.
