Belgium
Troubled Brussels fine arts museums pin hopes on new director
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Brussels was hit by scandal last year when its longstanding director stood down following allegations of inappropriate behaviour and bad management
‘Shining a light on the blind spots’: new book seeks to provide clearer picture of Mau Mau uprising
Max Pinckers worked together with Kenyan war veterans to bring records of 1950s colonial violence to the fore
James Ensor: series of anniversary shows to reveal ‘the man behind the mask’
Belgium commemorates 75 years since the artist's death with a year-long season of exhibitions and events, often highlighting the lesser known aspects of his work
Remembering Myriam Ullens, art collector, and philanthropist, who launched the first contemporary art museum in China
Belgian entrepreneur in fashion, food and art, co-founded the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, in Beijing, with her husband, Guy Ullens
Belgian museum looks unchanged after €100m restoration—but an entirely new building has been inserted within
Home to works by Old Masters including Peter Paul Rubens and Jan van Eyck, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp reopens after 11-year makeover
Artist Jan Fabre given 18-month suspended sentence for bullying and violence against five women—and will pay €1 symbolic compensation
Belgian court also charged the dance choreographer and director with indecent assault on one of the individuals
Belgian pavilion: Francis Alÿs explores the world through child’s play
Artist’s film for the Biennale is part of his 20-year examination of human behaviour through children’s games
Belgian cuts to art crime policing weaken ‘intelligence gathering’
Decision follows years of uncertainty around dwindling enforcement funding
Belgium plans to hand back colonial loot to DR Congo
New law will set up expert commission to sift through thousands of objects at the Royal Museum for Central Africa
Brussels doctors prescribe museum visits to treat Covid-19 stress
Research “has proven that art can be beneficial for health, both mental and physical,” the city’s head of culture tells a Belgian newspaper
Centre Pompidou in Paris names new president as Brussels branch backtracks over ‘sexist’ appointment
The Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Belgium has responded to outcry over decision to make Bernard Blistène a co-director alongside Kasia Redzisz
Hoard of plundered ancient art—discovered by police in a Belgian dealer's home—is returned to Italy
The almost 800 rare archaeological artefacts are now on show at the Castello Svevo in Bari
'There has been a generational shift': Belgian government to collaborate with Democratic Republic of Congo to return colonial-era loot
Bilateral accord to include projects to conserve, research, and store restituted items
Belgian experts frustrated at 'lack of initiative from museums and government' call for restitution of colonial-era acquisitions
New report provides guidelines for the return of artefacts to Africa, where Belgium controlled territory that was 80 times its size
'You need to predict what will be important in tomorrow’s world': Xavier Hufkens on opening another gallery during a pandemic
The art dealer is opening a third space in Brussels today with an exhibition of new works by Sterling Ruby
Campaign launched by teenager to remove statues of Congo coloniser Leopold II gains pace in Belgium
Monuments of the king were targeted by anti-racism protestors last weekend
Unknown masterpiece? Picture 'likely' based on lost Vermeer to be unveiled in Antwerp
A Young Woman with a Wine Glass and a Musician playing a Tenor Recorder could be a copy of a work by the great Dutch painter
Museums in Belgium and Italy to reopen mid-May under phased lifting of lockdown
Belgian museum director says his institution is “ready to serve as a test room”
Léon Spilliaert’s doom and gloom to light up the Royal Academy of Arts
The first major UK show will include 80 works by the little-known Belgian artist who has always "escaped easy categorisation"
In Pictures: the making of Europe’s largest public sculpture
Bernar Venet’s vast steel arc has been installed on a Belgian motorway
What am I actually buying? Performance art-only fair in Brussels faces challenge of materiality
A Performance Affair introduces new protocol to specify what is on offer and its secondary market development
Europe's largest public sculpture to be unveiled on Belgian motorway in October
The 60m roadside steel sculpture by French artist Bernar Venet was rejected by the French government 35 years ago
Former politician questions authenticity of Khnopff sculpture
Marie-Paule Quix says work is by Giorgio Ceragioli not the symbolist Belgian painter
Newly discovered Michaelina Wautier painting added to first major show on Baroque’s forgotten female master
And experts are convinced that “many more works will pop up”
What René Magritte did when Surrealism was trumped by ‘Nazi idiots’
Exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores Belgium artist's lesser-known late period
In Bruges: sea plastic, Chinese crabs and a Spanish pool take centre stage at triennial
Commissions for the second edition of the Bruges Triennial are closely linked with the city’s famous canals
Why paintings succeed where words fail: Interview with Luc Tymans
The Belgian artist talked to us about the messages art can convey on the eve of exhibitions in Europe, Russia and the United States
A new quadrennial in Ghent, US-curated this time
Little known fact: the Flemish part of Belgium has one of the highest concentrations of contemporary art collectors and enthusiasts in the world
Luc Tymans: on pigeon power
Belgium's representative at this year's Venice Biennale explains why pigeons are not symbols of peace, how he depicts violence without actually showing it and why he returned to painting