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Calling Kortrijk a hidden pearl along the River Lys might be too much honour. Yet there are numerous treasures to be found.
Throughout the history of film, the Dutch painter was given many identities.
Finally, a documentary with the Maroons, rather than about them.
In the search to find a cure for the Coronavirus, The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has sent 15,000 medicinal molecules to the Rega Institute in Leuven.
The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum put a substantial part of their collection accessible online.
Linguist Fieke Van der Gucht investigated the way the old Germanic people chose their first names. As for her own name? Turns out her parents weren’t very good at German.
The focus of the collection is 17th- and 18th-century music, its cultural context and performance practice.
Research institute Huygens ING will set up a new website to access and study medieval manuscripts in Dutch collections.
Jozef Deleu is the personification of the self-confident, critical, tolerant and self-willed Fleming.
Five hundred years after his birth, publishers can still learn from his cultural entrepreneurship.
An overview of the latest museum acquisitions of Dutch and Flemish Art.
One hundred years ago the world encountered a Spanish flu pandemic which cost an estimated 50 to 100 million lives. But in the Netherlands it was long underestimated by the government. Medical historian Leo van Bergen sketches the devastation caused by Spanish flu between 1918 and 1920.
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.
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.
Was the Dutch writer really such an anti-colonial rebel? And what about his preference for young girls?
Linguist Fieke Van der Gucht declares her love to a comma.
The speech of festival director Viktorien van Hulst at the seminar ‘Indonesia and the Netherlands: a joint future’.
Why not read a novel by a Dutch or Flemish author this spring? Take a look at our selection.
Derek Blyth urges you to visit the old-fashioned pubs of Flanders, while you still have the chance.
Editor-in-chief Luc Devoldere takes the start of the Multatuli year as an opportunity to explore the author’s legacy.
The Flemish tenacity for cycling inspired the English to invent much of today’s cycling lingo.
In his debut novel ‘Uiterste dagen’, Ferdinand Lankamp undertakes a search for our motives, which can sometimes be very dark.
When Dutch children's literature deals with taboos, some books are too unconventional for the anglophone market.
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is presenting artist's portraits in an exhibition on identity and image.
Why are the Dutch so crazy about cycling? We tell you all about it in the first episode of The Low Countries Radio.
