Series
arts
arts
Ilja M. Veldman
7 min reading time
Allart Van Everdingen, the Man Who Fell in Love With Waterfalls and Spruce Trees
Four hundred years after his birth, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar is staging the first retrospective of his diverse oeuvre.
arts
Virginie Platteau
6 min reading time
Villa Empain, an Art Deco Palace for Art and Intercultural Dialogue
Private residence, Russian embassy, and headquarters of a TV station. Villa Empain in Brussels has been all of these.
Series
Jan van Eyck
arts
CODART
3 min reading time
Restored ‘Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest’ Returns to Rubens House
The original paint layer has been exposed again, revealing details that have remained hidden for many years.
arts
Ian Mundell
6 min reading time
Maika Garnica Conjures Soundscapes From Clay
The Belgian-Bolivian artist translates form and material into sound, building objects in clay and playing them to produce atmospheric soundscapes.
Series
On the Shoulders of the Old Masters
arts
Geke Dijkstra
3 min reading time
‘Angels of Amsterdam’: Dutch Virtual Reality Experience at Venice International Film Festival
'Angels of Amsterdam' is a virtual reality experience based on the true stories of four 17th century women fighting for their rights.
arts
Tom Christiaens
4 min reading time
450-Year-Old Flemish Painting ‘Vegetable Seller’ Restored
Technical analysis and research link the painting to the important 16th-century still-life painter Joachim Beuckelaer.
Museum Explorer
arts
Maarten Buser
5 min reading time
Cream on Chrome Designs Technology with a Human Touch
The Rotterdam-based duo explores the human dimension in technology with interactive design.
arts
Derek Blyth
3 min reading time
Where Rubens Laid His Head to Rest
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.
Series
Forgotten Female Painters
The Restless Spirit of Futurist Jules Schmalzigaug
Antwerp painter Jules Schmalzigaug (1882-1917) deserves more prominence in the canon of the European avant-garde.
history
Sarah Ann Long
10 min reading time
Tournai: A Musical Crossroad in the 14th Century
Thanks to the travels of musicians between France and Flanders, the border city Tournai was able to develop as an international music centre in the late Middle Ages.
history
Geerdt Magiels
9 min reading time
You Are What You Smell: How Scent and Culture Are Intricately Linked
What did the past smell like? And how does scent influence our culture? Biologist and philosopher Geerdt Magiels takes us to the stinking seventeenth century and to the nearly scent-free Low Countries of today.
arts
Harry Bos
3 min reading time
Paul Verhoeven Questions the Very Nature of Belief in 'Benedetta’
The bad boy of Dutch cinema came to the Cannes Film Festival to please with a lesbian nun drama.
arts
Roel Daenen
9 min reading time
The Graphic Appetite of Comics Artist Typex
His illustrations reveal the quality of timeless design, particularly the graphic spectacle of his cartoon biographies of Rembrandt and Warhol.
history
Lotte Bosch
2 min reading time
Surinamese Mining Town Comes to Life in Interactive Dutch Documentary
Dutch artist Magda Augusteijn created an innovative web documentary about the history of the former mining town Moengo in Suriname.
arts
Karin Wolfs
6 min reading time
When Taking Your Time Takes a Long Time. The Documentary '100UP' by Heddy Honigmann
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'.
arts
Klaas Coulembier
4 min reading time
Composer Louis Andriessen (1939-2021), the Rebel Who Became an Institution
The influence of this legendary Dutch composer on contemporary classical music is enormous.
arts
CODART
3 min reading time
Rembrandt's Night Watch Reconstructed
Visitors to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam can now enjoy The Night Watch in its original form, for the first time in 300 years.
history
Ian Mundell
7 min reading time
Finding a New Role for Flanders' Historic Theatre Scenery
Flanders has only recently recognised the value of its historic theatre scenery. Experts are figuring out now how it can be preserved and best be used again.
history
Ian Mundell
6 min reading time
The American Adventure of 17th-Century Stained Glass From Flanders
Split up, passed on, sold and resold, many of the stained-glass windows of the Park Abbey near Leuven ended up in the USA. Now 21 of the 41 windows have been restored to the abbey's cloister.
arts
Tom Christiaens
2 min reading time
Discover 100 Masterpieces of Dutch and Flemish art in CODART Canon Book
The most important Dutch and Flemish works of art from before 1750 have been brought together in a beautiful book.
