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A jury of experts has selected ten young video makers from Flanders and the Netherlands for 'Bewogen Verzen' (Moving Verses), the video poetry project of Ons Erfdeel vzw and Poëziecentrum.

This Easter weekend our video poetry project 'Bewogen Verzen' kicked off with an inspiration session in Amsterdam.

In recent years Ostend has been a magnet for refugees trying to cross the Channel to England illegally, in search of a better life. However the gate to the promised land is heavily barred. Our reporter talks to some of these people.

In her debut novel 'Ook bomen slapen', Annemarie Peeters intertwines the lives of former opera director Corneille and young opera singer Ofelia. With success.

Covid-19 prompts all museums to close doors. With our selection of recently published books on Flemish or Dutch talent, you bring art into your home.

Jozef Deleu is the personification of the self-confident, critical, tolerant and self-willed Fleming.

Research institute Huygens ING will set up a new website to access and study medieval manuscripts in Dutch collections.

The Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and Plantin-Moretus Museum put a substantial part of their collection accessible online.

Technical analysis and research link the painting to the important 16th-century still-life painter Joachim Beuckelaer.

20-year-old artist Mitya from Antwerp is exhibiting in the world-famous The Walled Off Hotel, the hotel museum that was designed by street artist Banksy.

The theft took place on the same day as the artist’s birthday.

The main purpose of the investigation was to identify the main cause of deterioration of the cadmium yellow paint in The Scream by Edvard Munch.

Our selection of recent university press publications in English on the Low Countries.

Why not read a novel by a Dutch or Flemish author this spring? Take a look at our selection.

Take a look at our selection of recently translated Dutch-language books for children and young adults.

These Flemish artists and organisations across cultural disciplines have been rewarded with an Ultima for their outstanding contributions.

The Antwerp artist wins an Ultima, a tribute to his active artistry at the height of his ability.

The painter may be hardly known in the Netherlands, but in Australia, he had a great reputation.

The small cemeteries in and around Ypres provide a unique way of understanding the First World War.

Now you can zoom in on every inch of Jan van Eyck's paintings and miniatures. Thanks to the VERONA project, almost the entire oeuvre of the medieval master is now accessible online in ultra-high-resolution images.

Between 1816 and 1919, Neutral Moresnet was a geographical curiosity on the border triangle between Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

The lower interior panels of Van Eyck's 'Adoration of the Mystic Lamb' have now been restored.

Our best society stories of 2019, handpicked by the editor.

Our best literature stories of 2019, handpicked by the editor.

Our best history stories of 2019, handpicked by the editor.

Our best language stories of 2019, handpicked by the editor.

Our best art stories of 2019, handpicked by the editor.

No less than three important literary prizes for Dutch-language writers were announced this week. Awards for literary fiction, a poetry debut and a complete oeuvre.

The International Literature Festival Utrecht brings the vending machine that spits out short stories to the Netherlands

The Brussels-based school for contemporary dance and choreography has an impressive international reputation.

Our selection of Dutch-language books that have recently been translated into English.

The bad boy of Dutch cinema came to the Cannes Film Festival to please with a lesbian nun drama.

Our selection of Dutch-language books that have recently been translated into English.

The most important Dutch and Flemish works of art from before 1750 have been brought together in a beautiful book.

A book with 120 woodcut prints has been added to the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Our selection of Dutch-language books that have recently been translated into English.

The prize is the most prestigious literary award in the Dutch language area and includes a sum of 40,000 euros.

Our selection of recent university press publications in English on the Low Countries.

A decade after the museum staged a solo exhibition of his work.

The new exhibition hall named BRUSK, is set to open its doors by the end of 2024.

Our best society stories of 2020, handpicked by the editor.

According to the jury, Dijkstra makes a major contribution to the international prestige of Dutch visual arts with her work.

Our best literature stories of 2020, handpicked by the editor.

Our best language stories of 2020, handpicked by the editor.

Our best history stories of 2020, handpicked by the editor.

Our best art stories of 2020, handpicked by the editor.

Jan Renkema gives an overview of the core trademarks of Dutch identity.

The legacy of the Dutch historians Johan Huizinga and Pieter Geyl can hardly be overestimated.

The eight short stories and essays have been translated by a new generation of literary translators.

An American philanthropist has returned a portrait by the 15th-century artist Hans Memling to the city of Bruges, where it was painted.

The world-famous Dutch private library will be made more accessible for scientific research.

Our selection of Dutch-language books that have recently been translated into English.

During the German occupation, around 250 people hid in Amsterdam Artis Zoo to escape from Nazi persecution.

Our selection of recent university press publications in English on the Low Countries.

Tharim Cornelisse made a poetic film after the poem ‘The Method iv.' by Arno Van Vlierberghe.

The ART Curator Prize for the best exhibition of 2018 in Austria goes to the curators of the world's first major monographic exhibition on Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna.

The images of the house are part of a new online exhibition that includes the only known video of the World War II diarist.

Our selection of recent university press publications in English on the Low Countries.

The Agnes Etherington Art Centre acquired 'Head of an Old Man with Curly Hair'.

Brussels, the birthplace of Audrey Hepburn, celebrates the actress with an exhibition and a gold coin.

The Antwerp-based company took home the Opera Company of the Year award.

The drawings include natural history scenes, portraiture, genre subjects, figure studies and historical and biblical subjects.

After about 10 years, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium have reopened the permanent wing with Dutch Masters.

Tom Lanoye's adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear won in Cape Town in all categories she had been nominated for.

The Fries Museum in Leeuwarden has bought a drawing by Alma-Tadema that was found at a flea market.

It is the first time the role of Maori in the First World War has been recognised in this way in Europe.

Author Kathleen Vereecken and illustrator Charlotte Peys have won the Woutertje Pieterse Prize.

Large-scale research shows that the Dutch are unanimous about what makes the Netherlands the Netherlands, despite sharp contradictions in the public debate.

Our spring selection of Dutch-language books that have recently been translated into English.

The exhibition Van Gogh and Britain reveals how he was inspired by Britain and how he inspired British artists.

At least five Dutch museums acquired precious work at the world's leading fine art and antiques fair in Maastricht.

The Flemish author Bart Moeyaert has won the 2019 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. The award that is also known in literary circles as the “Nobel Prize for Youth Literature”, was presented at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Italy.

The website www.straatpoezie.nl shows exactly where poetry is visible in public space in the Low Countries.

This year, the Digital Library for Dutch Literature will celebrate its 20th anniversary.

How Dutch changes in a new environment.

Looking for a medieval mockery song or a twentieth-century love song from the Netherlands and Flanders? Check the Meertens Tune Collections.

Discover the parallels between Vincent van Gogh and David Hockney's paintings at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

The United States of Belgium tells the story of the First Belgian Revolution before the creation of a language barrier between French and Dutch.

Suzanna van Oers made a poetic film after the poem ‘Life on Mars’ by Peter Verhelst.

The former cycling world champion Willy De Bruyn is the first trans person to get a street named after him in Brussels.

Why not read a novel by a Dutch or Flemish author this summer? Take a look at our selection.

Reinier Kroese made a poetic film after the poem 'Lost' by Bart Moeyaert.

Dutch writers Wessel te Gussinklo and Sjeng Scheijen have won the 2019 BookSpot Literature Prize.

Tess Steijvers made a poetic film after the poem 'A Girl' by Toon Tellegen.

Younes Laaguidi made a poetic film after the poem ‘Houston we have a problem’ by Lotte Dodion.

Ester Bosschaert Devroe made a poetic film after the poem ‘Perseverance’ by Lieke Marsman.

Bob van den Berg made a poetic film after the poem ‘Global Underground' by Annemarie Estor.

Take a look at our selection of recently translated Dutch literature.

Justine Cappelle made a poetic film after the poem 'I Love Icarus' by Tjitske Jansen.

Ten trivia you probably didn't know about this typical Dutch snack.

Our summer selection of Dutch-language poetry that has recently been translated into English.

Starting this month, Dutch literature will present itself under the title 'New Dutch Writing' at more than 70 festivals and events in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Kobe Fleerackers made a poetic film after the poem 'On Mrs P.’s Municipal Coffin' by Menno Wigman.

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’.

A travelling exhibition pays tribute to the forgotten black soldiers who helped to liberate the Netherlands during the Second World War.

Our selection of recent university press publications in English on the Low Countries.

Nine youngsters from the Low Countries created poetic films based on their favourite Dutch-language poem.

The Dutch poet, novelist and travel writer will be granted his fourth honorary doctorate.

Barbara Van Lindt and Agnes Quackels form the new artistic and general management of the Brussels arts centre Kaaitheater.

The English city of Norwich owed its prosperity in part to immigrated weavers from the Spanish Netherlands.

On 13 August 1914 the Gazette van Detroit for the first time addressed its readers, the Flemish immigrants in the United States and Canada. Despite a rather uncertain history, this weekly paper has kept its promise to its readers. In 2004 ‘...

Ownership is old hat. Swapping, giving and sharing goods and services is the new way of trading. That, in essence, sums up the sharing economy – a movement that has been growing strongly in Belgium and the Netherlands, too, in recent years...

In the midst of nature, in the East Flemish municipality of Stekene, you can visit one of the largest private art collections in Europe.

A small history of the Adornes domain: a unique heritage of the Middle Ages.

Henriette Louwerse, Director of Dutch Studies and Senior Lecturer in Dutch at the University of Sheffield, argues for an open and inclusive approach towards the Dutch language.

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