‘Love is Louder’, a paradoxical line from an installation by American artist Sam Durant, is the title of a new large-scale (120 works by 80 artists) multimedia exhibition at Bozar in Brussels. The 1967 ‘Summer of Love’ is taken as a point of reference. ‘All we need is...
The 2024 Commerce Design Brussels Awards, initiated by the annual Brussels Design September design festival, took place in the new flagship boutique of the winning design brand ‘Zangra’. The aim of the award is to emphasise the importance of collaboration...
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...
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...
