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.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
Artists and designers are increasingly embracing the sensory properties and sustainable potential of microorganisms. Say hello to bioluminescent fungi and microbial weaving.
The role of many LGBTQ+ festivals goes way beyond simply screening films.
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What can the National Holocaust Museum say that has not been said before by dozens of other Dutch museums and memorial sites concerning the history and the persecution of the Jews?
According to the jury, Lanoye’s writing has been a ‘linguistic virtuoso spectacle’ for forty years.
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.
After Harry Mulisch, Tommy Wieringa, Lucas Rijneveld and Jaap Robben, Jente Posthuma is the fifth Dutch author to be nominated for this prestigious literature prize.
Today, prostitution has been legalised in the Netherlands and decriminalised in Belgium, but the normalisation of ‘sex for money’ is far from a reality.
After years of renovation, Brussels' former Stock Exchange building has been transformed into a grand venue for lovers of architecture, archaeology and beer.
The Netherlands was long considered more progressive in cinema than Belgium. Surprisingly enough, film censorship was more robust in the Netherlands than in Belgium.
How do you describe a fragrance when you lack the words for it? Linguist Marten van der Meulen sees possibilities in dialects and non-European languages.
Since 1945 The Netherlands and Belgium have often been frontrunners on the world stage when it comes to sexuality. But a certain sense of unease has always lingered and seems to be growing these days.
On 25 February 1643, two massacres on and around Manhattan Island ignited a war between Dutch settlers and Native Americans that would last for years.
Brussels-based Irish translator Johanna McCalmont wants to draw your attention to two high-profile books that use Africa as a backdrop for a gruesome past.
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.
'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.
Students from two British Universities translated an extract from the debut novel of the Flemish-Turkish writer.
Social activism and the struggle for women’s suffrage in the early twentieth century brought together women from countries around the world, including Jane Addams from the United States and Aletta Jacobs from the Netherlands.
Do you want to explore Rotterdam in a fast and furious way? Board a water taxi.
Here's our selection of Dutch-language books that recently have been translated into English.
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.
Wim Blockmans' book 'The Voice of the People?' could be useful in dealing with today's 'crisis of democracy' and in tackling the unease caused by political stagnation.
Historian Philip Dröge cycled along American roads in search of what remains of the Dutch-speaking past of the United States.
Two Antwerp monks were burned at the stake five hundred years ago because of their Lutheran beliefs. Their deaths remind us of a piece of the faded religious past of the Low Countries.
Emma Rault makes a plea for a moving memoir of a young man’s struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, and for a story set in the twilight zone between waking and sleeping.
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 is one of the hundred masterpieces of early modern Dutch and Flemish art in the CODART Canon.