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Edo Dijksterhuis
6 min reading time
Nothing Stands Between the Viewer and Art and in Food Art Museum LAM
Hidden in the nineteenth-century park behind the world's most famous tulip garden Keukenhof is the only food art museum in the Netherlands.
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Jan Van den Berghe
10 min reading time
Blood or Flowers: Boxing in the Visual Arts
There’s a never-ending list of filmmakers, writers and visual artists who have been, and indeed continue to be fascinated by boxing. In the Low Countries as well.
Museum Explorer
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Sarah de Koning
2 min reading time
Sarah de Koning: lead makes the mind give way, mrs hamilton
Eighteen young writers from Flanders and the Netherlands have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. Sarah de Koning draws our attention to the white paint on 'Portrait of Alida Christina Assink' by Jan Adam Kruseman'.
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Tijl Nuyts
16 min reading time
Mussels, Magritte and Maeterlinck: The Universal "Belgitude" of Stromae
Stromae expresses and depicts the diversity of Belgian society through the collision of his Belgian-ness and Brussels patriotism with a multitude of diverse perspectives.
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Forgotten Female Painters
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Lemuël de Graav
2 min reading time
Lemuël de Graav: Come and Dance, Girl
Eighteen young writers from Flanders and the Netherlands have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. Lemuël de Graav found inspiration in Wouter Johannes van Troostwijk’s painting 'The Raampoortje in Amsterdam'.
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Maarten Buser
6 min reading time
Hilde Onis Balances Objects and Meaning
Dutch artist Hilde Onis considers her installations a kind of arithmetic sums: the addition of objects, plus the space itself, plus the viewer.
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On the Shoulders of the Old Masters
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Michael Koevoet
3 min reading time
Michael Koevoet: Mourning Position
Eighteen young writers have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. Together with Michael Koevoet we look at the painting ‘In the Month of July’ by Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël.
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Derek Blyth
2 min reading time
De Roma – How One Man Saved the Most Beautiful Cinema in Flanders
What was once Belgium's finest cinema is today a vibrant cultural centre and performance venue in the heart of a multicultural neighbourhood.
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Jan van Eyck
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CODART
1 min reading time
Enclosed Garden with Saints Elisabeth, Ursula and Catharina
'Enclosed Garden with Saints Elisabeth, Ursula and Catharina' at Museum Hof van Busleyden in Mechelen is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.
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Isabelle De Baets
10 min reading time
Artistic Resistance as Liberation: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s Visual Language and Image of Women
Over the past fifty years, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has built up an oeuvre that is not only extensive, colourful and futuristic, but also layered, feminist and strongly critical of society.
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Manfred Sellink
9 min reading time
When Painters Go Ice Skating
Although the Dutch have been ice skating since the 13th century, it was not until the 16th century that ice skaters would regularly appear in paintings, courtesy of the Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel the Elder and... a climatic phenomenon.
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Tom Christiaens
2 min reading time
The Top 7 Art Stories of the Year
Join us in bidding goodbye to 2022 with seven of the finest art stories we published this year that are worth re-reading or listening to again.
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Maya Mertens
2 min reading time
Maya Mertens: Part of a Cannon (Captured)
Eighteen young writers have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. We join Maya Mertens as she looks at a part of a cannon captured at the Battle of Shimonoseki.
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Dirk Steenhaut
10 min reading time
The Musical Receiver Within Flip Kowlier
Meet the man who has proved for six albums now that West Flemish is a great dialect to sing pop songs in.
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Gus Møystad
1 min reading time
Gus Møystad: Ex nihilo nihil fit
Eighteen young writers have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. Gus Møystad drew a graphic story inspired by Jozef Israëls’ painting 'The Sand Bargeman'.
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An Faems
6 min reading time
Madness, Mourning, and Sadness Surround Flemish Primitive Hugo Van Der Goes
'The Death of the Virgin', a masterpiece by Hugo van der Goes from the fifteenth century, has been restored. The result can be admired in a versatile exhibition in Bruges, built around the panel.
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Kenneth Berth
2 min reading time
Kenneth Berth: The Table
Eighteen young writers have brought artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. Kenneth Berth invites us around a lavishly decorated table.
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Edo Dijksterhuis
6 min reading time
At the Renovated Museum Arnhem, Exhibitions Must Contend With the Driving Force of a Glacier
With a new wing and improved layout of the building, Museum Arnhem strengthens a unique place within the range of museums on offer in the Netherlands.
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Maarten Buser
6 min reading time
Narges Mohammadi Makes Teacups Out of Concrete
The Afghan-Dutch artist designs installations and sculptures like chefs create dishes: bringing together seemingly incompatible forms and materials.
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Maaike Rijntjes
2 min reading time
Maaike Rijntjes: I can serve you the country
Eighteen young writers have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. We join Maaike Rijntjes as they look at a plate of the Dutch province of Overijssel.
