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Nits Have Been Painting With Sounds For Fifty Years
The Amsterdam pop group Nits is celebrating their anniversary with a tour and an EP that sounds as timeless as it is stimulating. Their intelligent pop music sounds both refined and very European.
Boozers, Militiamen And Mischievous Looking Women: Frans Hals Brought Them All Masterfully To Life
The Rijksmuseum is exhibiting around fifty of Frans Hals' best works. This seventeenth-century master could transform smears of paint into striking portraits like no other.
Masterpieces From the CODART Canon
Roelant Savery Painted the Emperor’s Wondrous World
Mauritshuis in The Hague is paying tribute to Roelant Savery, painter of the Netherlands’ first floral still life, and of the legendary (extinct) dodo.
Moulding Life: Artists Craft with Fungi and Bacteria
Artists and designers are increasingly embracing the sensory properties and sustainable potential of microorganisms. Say hello to bioluminescent fungi and microbial weaving.
Museum Explorer
By, For And With The Community: LGBTQ+ Film Festivals In The Low Countries
The role of many LGBTQ+ festivals goes way beyond simply screening films.
Museum MORE Ensures Rehabilitation Of Realism
Museum MORE specializes in a movement that has long been ignored: realism. If that is not enough reason to travel to Gelderland, there is always the world's largest collection of works by Carel Willink.
More Vermeer
Sex In The Cinema? Censorship In The Netherlands, Deleted Scenes In Belgium
The Netherlands was long considered more progressive in cinema than Belgium. Surprisingly enough, film censorship was more robust in the Netherlands than in Belgium.
Rafaël Rozendaal Bridges The Gap Between The Online And Offline World
With an oeuvre at once connected to art history and contemporary technology, Rafaël Rozendaal has made a name for himself as a prominent digital artist.
Forgotten Female Painters
Memling’s Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
'The Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove' by Hans Memling is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.
Eugeen Van Mieghem's Compassionate Sketches of the Tired, Poor and Huddled Masses
Thanks to a donation of unique drawings to the New-York Historical Society, American art lovers can finally discover the work of Flemish artist Eugeen Van Mieghem, draughtsman of the common man.
How Much Colour Can The Flemish Art World Tolerate?
Superdiversity and interculturality have become inevitable facts. An articulate generation with diverse backgrounds is demanding its place. How is the debate conducted in the Flemish cultural sector, and in particular in the performing arts?
James Ensor, Rebel For All Times
James Ensor was not just a crazy, angry, solitary painter of masks, he was also an authentic rebel who spent a lifetime using his voice to champion values that still hold true today.
In The Uncomfortable Documentary 'White Balls On Walls', The Stedelijk Museum Looks In The Mirror
Sarah Vos follows how under new directorship, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is wrestling with a more diverse and inclusive trajectory.
Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels by Clara Peeters
‘Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels’ by Clara Peeters is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.
Warts, Alcoholic Noses And Weird Beards: ‘Turning Heads' Is An Animated Viewing Adventure
A gorgeous series of paintings, prints and drawings is featured in 'Turning Heads', the exhibition at the KMSKA in Antwerp that focuses on the genre of tronie art.
Our Top Art Stories of the Year
Join us in bidding goodbye to 2023 with some of the most surprising stories we have published this year on the beautiful art being made in Flanders and the Netherlands.
Holocaust Past Meets Modern Amsterdam in Steve McQueen Documentary ‘Occupied City'
The '12 Years a Slave' director shows us what the Second World War sounded like in the Dutch capital.
Magnificent Showcases. Flemish Retables Collected in Digital Corpus
The Digital Corpus of Flemish Retables is an inventory of one of the highlights of Netherlandish art history.
Dennis Tyfus Improvises to Open Up Your Head
Dennis Tyfus cannot be pinned down. Paintings, concerts, tattoo sessions and ‘unforeseeable activities’, the Antwerp-based total artist does it all.
Tania Kross Wins Johannes Vermeer Award for Making Opera Mainstream
The Netherlands’ most popular mezzo-soprano made opera accessible to millions of people. Before that, she constantly deviated from the well-trodden paths.