Daan de Jager - Farewell: Van Gogh
Eighteen young authors have brought nineteenth-century artefacts from the Rijksmuseum to life. We join Daan de Jager as he looks at a self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh from 1887.
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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. We join Daan de Jager as he looks at a self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh from 1887.
We join Marieke Ornelis as she looks at Portrait of a Young Woman, with ‘Puck’ the Dog, painted by Marie-Thérèse Schwartz
Five hundred years, ago painter Albrecht Dürer travelled through the Low Countries. That journey is now coming to life in an exhibition, several books and his own diary entries.
How might a statue look back on its career? Whose hands handled the wood before it was made into a cabinet? What can a jar of mustard tell us? Eighteen young Flemish and Dutch authors who attended deBuren’s residency programme in Paris have...
Why not read a novel by a Dutch or Flemish author this spring? Take a look at our selection.