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The Low Countries' view of the United States has gradually changed from admiration to sadness and frustration.
The legacy of the Dutch historians Johan Huizinga and Pieter Geyl can hardly be overestimated.
The Dutch like to fend for themselves, for fear of further interference. They love their freedom and independence.
These two portraits, of a kind rarely seen in public collections, will now better represent Ostade’s oeuvre within Cambridge and the UK.
The English language has many names and expressions in which the word Dutch is used. Its meaning is often negative.
Who was this liberal Dutch writer, who came into contact with many great minds of her time?
This week's Friday Verses are written by Ruth Lasters. We translated her poem ‘Wire’.
‘It is not difficult to find a basis for cooperation. After all, each country cares for its heritage and thus faces similar issues.’
The Dutch artist wonders whether she can translate the spatial aspect of her installations into something that could simply hang on the wall, like a painting.
Flemish and Dutch right-wing extremists mostly convene in online environments. However, it is clear the Flemish-Dutch front formation intends to develop into much more than an army of keyboard warriors.
At Saint Petersburg State University, translation studies and interpreting are important subjects within the study of Dutch language and culture.
Utopia is not always an imaginary place. That is what Derek Blyth discovered when he entered the stunning city library of Aalst.
A big survey shows that Dutch and Flemish people who move abroad to Anglophone countries don’t speak Dutch quite as often as their other emigrated compatriots do.
After being hidden for six hundred years, the Royal Library of Belgium presents its unique collection of manuscripts from the Burgundian period.
There is something about the development of the Indonesian language that irritates journalist Joss Wibisono - it is being mixed with English.
This week's Friday Verses are written by Bart Van der Straeten. We translated his poem ‘Truth’.
In this episode, we find out what Flemish and Dutch people have been eating since prehistoric times. Smakelijk!
An American philanthropist has returned a portrait by the 15th-century artist Hans Memling to the city of Bruges, where it was painted.
The GUM does not set out to display a number of scientific truths but wants to demonstrate how doubt and beauty are part of the scientific process.
Writer Aster Berkhof has passed away. For a long time, he was one of the most read authors in Flanders. What should we remember of his oeuvre?
Due to the openness and the usually quick acceptance of various groups the Netherlands has been able to develop as a country in which modern ideas can flourish.
The fourth and final stage of our cycling trip on the Via Belgica takes us from Heerlen to Cologne.
Ewoud Kieft offers a lot of food for thought in his debut novel. Even the perfect world of the future is not to everyone’s taste.
Rapper Zwangere Guy enters into a conversation with Brussels in order to get to know the city and himself better.
'Mirror of Reality’ is the first comprehensive overview of nineteenth-century Dutch painting, set within the context of the international art world.
‘One-Third Land and Two-Thirds Sky' – that is how the film director Peter Greenaway saw, and sees, the Netherlands.
The International Literature Festival Utrecht brings the vending machine that spits out short stories to the Netherlands
