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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
Eighteen young authors have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. Robin Goudsmit wrote a manual to accompany a painting.
Book after book, this young and much-acclaimed Dutch illustrator knows how to surprise.
Count Floris V, loved by peasants and urban commoners, left a large legacy in Holland. However, his good deeds could not prevent him from being murdered.
Dutch installation artist Gabey Tjon a Tham is intrigued by the similarities between nature and technology.
In Was (Wax), debut author Jilt Jorritsma eschews linear time, constructing a mysterious and fascinating story.
Our selection of recent university press publications from all over the world that deal with the Low Countries.
Although its roots date back to 1515, Café Vlissinghe in Bruges is anything but sleepy.
Whale oil was a good substitute for vegetable oils and fats, so merchants in the Netherlands saw opportunities to earn good money with whaling. The Dutch hunted whales from 1612 to 1964.
It has long been suspected that two landscape paintings by Cuyp belonged together but until now, scientific proof was missing.
The Antwerp painter takes animals, plants, and sailing boats, and formalises them, creating motifs that repeat through his paintings.
The Vondel Prize is a biennial prize for the best book translation into English of a Dutch literary or cultural-historical work. The winner receives € 5,000.
Jail time and corporal punishment were just two of the severe punishments meted out to naughty students in the past.
Loes Wijnhoven has written a funny debut novel about a millennial living life passing from hotel to hotel.
The Flemish Government has purchased a drawing by Flemish Master Peter Paul Rubens that was thought to be lost.
The Flemish painter lets you lose yourself in the multiplicity of the world at his first solo exhibition.
Four hundred years after his birth, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar is staging the first retrospective of his diverse oeuvre.
In the 19th century, a very particular kind of tourist came to Flanders: foreigners looking for a quiet place to fight.
Private residence, Russian embassy, and headquarters of a TV station. Villa Empain in Brussels has been all of these.
The oldest working planetarium in the world can be found in Franeker in the Dutch province of Friesland: the Royal Eise Eisinga Planetarium.
Between 1600 and 1900, Dutch was the dominant European language in Japan. A new book examines how this affected the local culture and society.
The original paint layer has been exposed again, revealing details that have remained hidden for many years.
Cultural historian Lotte Jensen recounts how she has seen the consequences of climate change with her own eyes.
The Belgian-Bolivian artist translates form and material into sound, building objects in clay and playing them to produce atmospheric soundscapes.
They may not paint a cheerful picture of man and the world, but the books of Willem Frederik Hermans are worth re-reading, says writer Henk Pröpper.
Which objects are we talking about exactly? Who claims them? And what should be done with them in the country of origin?
In this interview, the Surinamese writer talks about her texts, her language, and her homeland.
In the late eighteenth century, various ships departed from hotspot Ostend to the coasts of Africa to exchange goods for people.
