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The flamboyant South African writer has eighty candles to blow out. Portrait of a complex artist.
Realism, surrealism and the absurd compete for priority in the Emma De Swaef’s and Marc James Roels’ stop–motion film This Magnificent Cake!
The Amsterdam Museum ditches ‘Golden Age’ in favour of inclusive ’17th century’.
The Western Australian Museum will make 3D scans to visualise the 17th century silverware that was found in the shipwreck of the ‘Batavia’.
Jeroen Olyslaegers unravels the mystery of the most significant Renaissance painter of both Flanders and the Netherlands.
In the Dutch Caribbean, there has been a transition from mother-tongue education in Dutch to high-quality education in Dutch as a Foreign Language.
Fleming Peter De Brabander provides the logistics for movies about the Second World War.
Eindhoven-based story designer artist Alice Wong is interested in how reality is shaped.
Nine youngsters from the Low Countries created poetic films based on their favourite Dutch-language poem.
At the beginning of September 1944, 75 years ago, the first allied forces entered Belgium to liberate the country from the German occupier.
In the Netherlands the harsh winter of 1944-1945 became a symbol of the people’s suffering during World War II.
In his first novel 'Vijd' Jonas Bruyneel paints a vibrant portrait of the Burgundian family who commissioned the world-famous 'Adoration of the Mystic Lamb' of the Van Eyck brothers.
Rineke Dijkstra’s new film installation Night Watching shows 14 groups of people looking at Rembrandt’s The Night Watch.
St. Eustatius, a little known island in the Dutch Antilles, played an important role in America’s War of Independence.
A Year on the Post is a series of interviews with cultural attachés of the Netherlands about their experiences abroad. This edition: Janette Verrijzer in Moscow.
Meet one of the Netherlands’ most exciting contemporary composers.
One of the Netherlands' most legendary bands has been playing outside the establishment for the past forty decades.
A Nottingham language student shares a memory of her semester spent in the Netherlands.
This week's Friday Verses are written by Anke Senden. We selected her poem ‘here’.
Nowhere is the Gender Pay Gap as strongly present as in professional football and cycling. Hind Fraihi states its about time the gap gets closed.
Since its start in 2000, the Brussels dance theatre company has been building up a strong international reputation.
In his debut novel Frank Heinen lays bare the state of the care system in contemporary society as well as the role played by the media in how we perceive certain events.
The United States remains the second most popular foreign destination for artists from the Netherlands.
J. Slauerhoff’s romantic novel ‘Adrift in the Middle Kingdom’ is for the first time available to English-language readers.
The Dutch poet, novelist and travel writer will be granted his fourth honorary doctorate.
Where once there was a checkpoint in France, the slogan 'Let us be ungovernable' can be read along the border. Luc Devoldere wonders what the graffiti artists mean by this.
