One of a quartet (4 exhibitions) of exhibitions in Antwerp, with which the city celebrates 2024, the year of James Ensor in Belgium, opened at the MoMu Fashion Museum with an extravaganza weekend of performances, masterclasses and guided tours. I always take a ticket...
He is as long-legged and elongated, elegant and charming as his famous cats. Like Flaubert’s ‘Mrs Bovary is Me’. French artist and cartoonist Alain Séchas is presenting at one of my favourite museums in Belgium, BPS22 in Charleroi (a museum named after its own...
Opening weekend (28-29 September 2024) at the Fotomuseum Antwerp is dedicated to Cindy Sherman’s exhibition ‘Anti-Fashion’. Exhibition curator Rein Deslé insists that the American legend is not a photographer, but a contemporary artist working with...
On 28 September, Antwerp received the Ensorian torch from Ostend. The city on the Scheldt pays tribute to the Belgian artist James Ensor with four diverse, world-class exhibitions. They comprehensively show how the artist continues to inspire contemporary...
Cinephiles like me, take note! The 51st Gent Film Fest (9-20 October 2024) announced its programme in the arthouse cinema Sphinks (by the way, it was opened in 1912 and originally called ‘Cinéma Scala’, only in the 1930s it got its current name and became the centre...
