Culture and Media Podium 19 is new Flemish arts channel Flemish art centres supported by VRT have joined forces to launch a new TV channel: Podium 19. The new channel that is the result of intense co-operation acr... Wed 13 Jan 15:16
foto: Bert Dries Culture and Media ‘Last Supper’ gets corona make-over Flemish artist Bert Dries has created a novel version of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ chock-a-bloc with allusions to our present plight. Tue 12 Jan 15:55
© Syda Productions - creative.belgaimage.be Culture and Media ‘Homemates’ finds housemates for the over-50s Think50 has just set up a project to help over-50s find a housemate. The project entitled ‘Homemates’ targets people aged 50 or more who live alone. Its ai... Tue 05 Jan 16:25
Brussels Sterling Books calls it a day The lockdown in the spring of 2020 and the cancellation of the Antwerp Book Fair delt a death blow to what is one of the capital’s best-know bookstores. Sun 03 Jan 12:14
Culture and Media "Let's tick together": people anxious to say goodbye to 2020 On Wednesday evening, a nationwide initiative was taken to say goodbye to the past corona year. Thu 31 Dec 2020 11:13
Culture and Media Real Bodies in Antwerp The Antwerp Sports Palace is currently hosting the Real Bodies exhibition. The exhibition includes twenty real and perfectly preserved bodies as well as 200 ... Thu 17 Dec 2020 14:14
Culture and Media ‘Knuffelcontact’ is Flemish Word of the Year The people of Flanders have elected the word ‘knuffelcontact’ as their Word of the Year. ‘Knuffelcontact’ means hug buddy or cuddle contact in English and h... Tue 15 Dec 2020 10:16
Radio 2 East Flanders Monolith of Baasrode disappears after a day, is now “resting” Flanders first monolith, the Monolith of Baasrode, has disappeared. The monolith, a work of art in the form of a silvery post appeared in a field of potatoe... Thu 10 Dec 2020 09:36
East Flanders First Flemish monolith appears in potato field A field of potatoes in Baasrode (Dendermonde - East Flanders) boasts Flanders’ first and only monolith. The monolith is a work of art consisting of a metal ... Wed 09 Dec 2020 09:35
Photo: Royal Museum of Fine Arts Culture and Media Original painting by Flemish master discovered in Sint-Gillis Town Hall An original painting by the Flemish master Jacob Jordaens has hung unnoticed for decades in the Town Hall in the Brussels municipality. Tue 08 Dec 2020 11:23
Antwerp Province Revolutionary Jewels from the Sixties and Seventies in Antwerp Antwerp’s Museum for Diamonds, Jewellery and Silver, the DIVA, is staging a gem of an exhibition devoted to ‘Revolutionary jewels of the Sixties and Seventies. Thu 03 Dec 2020 14:25
Arne Deboosere West Flanders Ostend Film Festival becomes FFO Nights in 2021 The Ostend Film Festival has cancelled its first outing as a winter festival. The first winter edition had been planned for January but will now not go ahea... Tue 01 Dec 2020 16:21
MusiCOVIDeo Culture and Media Bruges composer and pianist produce musical advent calendar Two Belgian Queen Elizabeth Competition laureates have joined forces to produce a musical advent calendar. Tue 01 Dec 2020 12:51
Belga West Flanders ‘Lucky Luke in the Deep South’ in Kortrijk ‘Lucky Luke in the Deep South’ is the title of an exhibition celebrating 75 years of the strip cartoon hero Lucky Luke. Strip cartoons featuring the cowboy ... Tue 01 Dec 2020 11:28
Culture and Media Flanders’ first female news anchor retires after 42 years Around 2 million Flemings, almost one in three of the entire population, watched a moment of television history on Monday evening. Tue 01 Dec 2020 10:47
BELGA Culture and Media Most major Brussels museums to reopen on 1 December Most of the large museums in Brussels that were contacted by VRT News say that they intend to take full of advantage to the changes to the coronavirus restri... Sat 28 Nov 2020 17:00
Culture and Media Belgians not so eager to pay for online content Around 30% of people in Belgium are currently paying a fee to access online content legally. Belgians are paying for films, tv series, music, games and the ... Tue 24 Nov 2020 15:46
atomium Brussels Brussels Region moves to rescue the Atomium The Brussels Region has decided to release a million euros in emergency aid for the Atomium, the famous Brussels landmark. Earlier the City of Brussels made... Tue 24 Nov 2020 11:01
Radio 2 Culture and Media “The good taste of the Chinese comes as a surprise to me” Imagine the surprise when artist Wouter Mulier discovered that a copy of the sculpture he had created for the municipal hall in Herent (Flemish Brabant) was ... Mon 23 Nov 2020 16:17
Antwerp Province KBC Tower to become ‘Culture Tower’ Antwerp’s KBC Tower, the former ‘Farmers’ Tower’ is getting a new destination. Banker KBC is selling the iconic skyscraper to Fernand Huts’s Katoen Natie Gr... Thu 19 Nov 2020 14:51
