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Our best art stories of 2019, handpicked by the editor.

A gorgeous series of paintings, prints and drawings is featured in 'Turning Heads', the exhibition at the KMSKA in Antwerp that focuses on the genre of tronie art.

At least five Dutch museums acquired precious work at the world's leading fine art and antiques fair in Maastricht.

With its large collection of works from the Golden Age, Mauritshuis is one of the most important museums in the Netherlands. Important but not without controversy.

In Catholic Flanders, the Mother of God was a cherished subject for painters. Not so in Dutch painting.

Cesar Majorana gives a voice to a painting in the shadow of 'The Night Watch'.

An international outlook is a constant component in the ongoing definition of Dutch identity and character. Rembrandt's interest in visual culture beyond the Netherlands is one measure of his own Dutchness, and his practice of assimilating ...

To celebrate the 400th year of birth of Aelbert Cuyp, The Dordrechts Museum is organizing a special exhibition that focuses on his impact on English landscape painters.

Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle presents the fifty leading works that have been produced in the Netherlands over the past half century.

The Dutch documentary maker made a portrait of her Jewish mother, who has not left the house for about three decades due to phobias.

Five hundred years, ago painter Albrecht Dürer travelled through the Low Countries. That journey is now coming to life in an exhibition, several books and his own diary entries.

'A New History of Western Art' is not the dry tome of an academic, but of an enthusiastic storyteller who shows us how art continues to have new interpretations.

The painting is the second Ter Brugghen for the Met’s collection, next to The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John.

The author considers different relationships between poet and painting. In fact, the writing of poems based on paintings seems to have become a national sport in the Netherlands. Brueghel, Rembrandt, Cuyp, Vermeer, Asselijn inspired Enquist...

The core of Leiden University’s collection of European ‘art on paper’ is now available in digital form for education, research and the interested public.

Amsterdam has overtaken London as Europe’ main share trading hub for the first time since the 17th century.

The restored portico and garden pavilion won in the most sought-after category.

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.

Sarah Vos follows how under new directorship, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is wrestling with a more diverse and inclusive trajectory.

Oh, that laugh! No less mysterious than the secretive smile of the Mona Lisa, it has preoccupied art historians for decades and never fails to fascinate the viewer. Rembrandt’s self-portrait is one of the best-known paintings in the Wallra...

The original paint layer has been exposed again, revealing details that have remained hidden for many years.

The Antwerp Jesuits understood the art of persuasion. In the seventeenth century, they called on none other than Rubens to create a unique series of paintings. The three-part exhibition Baroque Influencers relays their story through a numbe...

The '12 Years a Slave' director shows us what the Second World War sounded like in the Dutch capital.

Ana Torfs’s beautifully crafted, enchanting, experimental and postcolonial installations start out from established European conventions of art and reality, but then step outside and present us with a multimodal Gesamtkunstwerk, made with ...

This summer, some museums have enriched their collections by acquiring beautiful early modern Dutch and Flemish art.

After about 10 years, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium have reopened the permanent wing with Dutch Masters.

Ask the average art-lover to name the most important seventeenth-century Flemish artists and it’s quite unlikely that Adriaen Brouwer will rarely figure in the list, even though he undoubtedly belongs there. His contemporaries admired his ...

What is it that makes people get out of bed day in, day out for over a century? This is the question documentary filmmaker Heddy Honigmann asks seven quirky centenarians in her new film '100UP'.

The Rijksmuseum has been a major source of inspiration for Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf since his early youth. From 3 July he shows in the Amsterdam museum his photographs in dialogue with Dutch paintings.

Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has gathered together 28 of Johannes Vermeer’s 37 known paintings from around the world. Here you can read all our stories about the famous seventeenth-century Dutch master.

Is there an art-lover anywhere who has never heard of Rembrandt or Mondrian? Probably not. Many people think of the Netherlands primarily as a land of visual artists, far more than of writers. But are today's Dutch artists also known abroad...

Since the start of the nineteenth century, private collectors all over the world have greedily sought out the old masters of the Low Countries. Painters such as Jan van Eyck and Pieter Bruegel were rediscovered thanks to tireless research ...

This week's Friday Verses are written by Filip Rogiers. We translated his poem ‘On the Fundamentalism of Every Revelation’.

When the election for the greatest Dutch person of all time was held in 2004, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek came fourth after Pim Fortuyn, William of Orange and Willem Drees, but before Erasmus, Rembrandt and Vincent van Gogh. Van Leeuwenhoek's tr...

Take a look at our selection of recently translated Dutch-language books for children and young adults.

Our spring selection of Dutch-language books that have recently been translated into English.

Why not read a novel by a Dutch or Flemish author this spring? Take a look at our selection.

These two portraits, of a kind rarely seen in public collections, will now better represent Ostade’s oeuvre within Cambridge and the UK.

Volume 68 (2018) of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art appeared.

The most important Dutch and Flemish works of art from before 1750 have been brought together in a beautiful book.

An overview of the latest museum acquisitions of old Dutch and Flemish Art.

An overview of the latest museum acquisitions of old Dutch and Flemish Art.

CODART, the international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art, has announced the CODART Canon.

The Mauritshuis is displaying art objects that were once stolen by French troops, colonists or Nazis, confronting you with their past and future.

A book with 120 woodcut prints has been added to the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Vincent van Gogh was not only a great artist, his letters bear witness to a great talent for writing.

Our selection of recent university press publications from all over the world that deal with the Low Countries.

Since it was established in 1971, ‘De Engelbewaarder’ has been known as the first literary café in the Netherlands. Not only John Irving once drank a beer there.

Derek Blyth expresses his love for the carillons of Flanders and the Netherlands.

If you really want to understand how the Dutch lived in the Golden Age, then you should learn to read 17th century Dutch.

London and the music industry dominate the Dutch cultural production in the United Kingdom. But it is well worth looking beyond the capital and discover new opportunities.

'Mirror of Reality’ is the first comprehensive overview of nineteenth-century Dutch painting, set within the context of the international art world.

Throughout history, the Low Countries would often be defined by their interactions with great powers nearby. This began with the Romans.

The exhibition 'Ode to Antwerp' at Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht explicitly presents old masters from the Low Countries and not from Holland or Flanders.

You can choose which Flemish and Dutch works of art deserve a place in the CODART Canon.

Artificial Intelligence opens new ways for language research. You can programme a bot to write sonnets like Shakespeare, and one day we might be able to converse with someone from the 16th century.

Covid-19 prompts all museums to close doors. With our selection of recently published books on Flemish or Dutch talent, you bring art into your home.

Thanks to Frans Hals, Karel van Mander and other refugees from Flanders and Brabant, the arts scene in Haarlem was able to flourish between 1580-1630.

Too famous now to still be considered the rising star of Flemish art, Rinus Van de Velde brings a selection of his latest work to a high-profile show at Bozar in Brussels.

Utrecht is so much more than a pleasant day trip from Amsterdam. Discover its picturesque canals, lively pub culture, the world’s largest bike parking garage and a cute little rabbit that pops up everywhere in town.

The English city of Norwich owed its prosperity in part to immigrated weavers from the Spanish Netherlands.

The Rijksmuseum is exhibiting around fifty of Frans Hals' best works. This seventeenth-century master could transform smears of paint into striking portraits like no other.

Comparing the Flemish Canon to the Canon of the Netherlands, historian Rolf Falter concludes that both canons are a collection of standalone stories, whereby contemporary political sensibilities and a quite nationalistic approach have influ...

An overview of the latest museum acquisitions of old Dutch and Flemish Art.

Our selection of recent university press publications in English on the Low Countries.

The American Revolution had a significant impact on the Dutch Republic. Not least thanks to Thomas Jefferson, who passed on his political ideals to Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp, the drafter of the Dutch constitution.

In the 13th century, wool was the most important commodity in Flanders, with Bruges as the epicentre of the wool trade. The industry determined the political, social and economic relations and left its mark on architecture.

The new director of Ons Erfdeel regrets that the debate about Flemish self-awareness has degenerated into a polarisation between the populist right and the tendentious left.

Our selection of recent university press publications in English on the Low Countries.

On a trip to the capital of the Belgian province of Limburg, Derek Blyth finds comforting food, innovative architecture and 25 places to be happy.

Throughout the past decades, the Erasmus Huis has strengthened its role as a centre for cultural diplomacy for the Netherlands in Indonesia.