Culture

Like all the other museums in Brussels the Comics Art Museum has had to close again. Museum closures are one of the decisions taken by the Brussels regional...

A new exhibition ‘S.M.A.K. Moves - Drawing in Lockdown’ opens at Ghent’s contemporary art museum, the S.M.A.K., on 31 October. The exhibition will show drawi...

The Flemish Free University of Brussels, the VUB, is switching to Code Red as a result of the worsening corona situation in the Belgian and Flemish capital. ...

The world’s biggest slideway stands in Antwerp, at the Comics Station amusement park located in the Central Station in the northern port city. The Plopsa Gr...

People not blessed with a partner with good cooking skills may be looking for a way out of our present predicament and a means of having a good restaurant me...

Princess Delphine of Belgium unveiled a sculpture by her own hand in Sint-Niklaas (East Flanders) on Saturday. The event was the princess’s first public out...

British actor Stephen Fry won’t be coming to Belgium for the 100th edition of the VRT TV programme “Alleen Elvis” (Only Elvis). The actor announced the new i...

Following Belgian governments’ decisions to introduce stricter corona measures Flemish education minister Ben Weyts let it be known that the entire Flemish h...

Despite the public health emergency, tonight is the opening night of Film Fest Gent, the Ghent film festival that is marking its 47th edition. Putting on a f...

Flemish DJ Dimitri Vegas has landed a role in the new ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ movie. Dimitri, who hails from the Antwerp town of Willebroek, is over the m...

The work of the Bruges master Hans Memling has inspired artists through the centuries. Pieter Pourbus, Joshua Reynolds and James Ensor are but a few names o...

A number of remarkable finds from the Roman era were made in the Waasmont district of Landen in Limburg Province. The finds came to light thanks to the use ...

Forty museums across the Belgian and Flemish capital are jointly staging a ‘comeback’ event. Seventy different small scale activities can be experienced as ...

6 December is a red letter day for children in many parts of Flanders. It is the name day of Saint Nicholas and the day many children hope to receive presen...

Graduating students at the Medicine and Health Sciences Faculty at Antwerp University attended a proclamation ceremony they will not easily forget. The cust...

Next year's edition of Aalst Carnival, which traditionally takes place in February - will not take place, Mayor Christoph D'Haese has announced.

Old wall paintings were discovered in a school in Meerhout (Antwerp province). They were made by a British soldier in the Second World War, when the area was...

The mask was confiscated on 24 October 2008.