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In Brussels you can visit a beautiful retrospective of the versatile, successful and innovative Renaissance artist Bernard van Orley (c. 1488-1541) until 26 May. He worked for clients such as Charles V and Margaret of Austria.
Thierry Baudet’s conservative ideas fly in the face of the enlightenment values that have long been dominant. This opposition is a defining moment for our modern culture.
Thierry Baudet and Dries Van Langenhove receive far more attention from the media than is justified by their importance.
Roland Gunst – half Flemish, half Congolese – uses installations, performances, film and video to explore the search for his own identity.
When natural processes and the laws of physics lead to compelling, lyrical artefacts.
Cross-border solidarity in Belgium and the Netherlands is more popular than the political debate suggests.
St. Eustatius, a little known island in the Dutch Antilles, played an important role in America’s War of Independence.
Realism, surrealism and the absurd compete for priority in the Emma De Swaef’s and Marc James Roels’ stop–motion film This Magnificent Cake!
Seventy years ago, James Ensor died in a hospital in Ostend. Writer Koen Peeters brings an ode to this ‘realist, pleinairist, painter of light and masks’.
