Helen Lyons

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Boerentoren: Antwerp's Art Deco icon to get new lease on life

Brussels has its Atomium, Grand Place, Royal Palace and Palais du Justice. Antwerp, however, has the Boerentoren – the Farmers' Tower.

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The rise, fall and future of Van Hool, Belgium's busing pioneer

Belgium's last remaining vehicle manufacturer has seemingly spluttered to its final stop, engine wheezing.

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Belgium's Breaking Bad: Can Netflix make a grassroots production?

Can the US-based entertainment giant can make a truly grassroots production? Meet the people in front of and behind the camera for some of Belgium’s biggest hits.

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The art and events to look out for in Brussels and beyond

The Brussels Times selects some of the best exhibitions currently on show in museums and galleries.

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The art and events to look out for in Brussels and beyond

The Brussels Times selects some of the best exhibitions currently on show in museums and galleries.

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Ensor, the artist who found the whole world in Belgium

Ensor’s origins will be familiar to many: British father, Belgian mother, school here and summers there. Family members who could not address each other in the same language, child interpreters filling the gaps.

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The art and events to look out for in Brussels and beyond

The Brussels Times selects some of the best exhibitions currently on show in museums and galleries.

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The art and events to look out for in Brussels and beyond

The Stoclet Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is considered a modernist masterpiece, and was made in the Vienna Secessionist style, which emerged between Art Nouveau and Art Deco.

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Wil’s power: 'What would you have done?'

“If your answer is, ‘I don’t know what I would do, but the question makes me uncomfortable,’ you’re already there.”

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Art and events in Brussels and beyond

The second edition of the International Photo Biennial includes surprising works by more than 30 photographers from Belgium and abroad.

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Art and events in Brussels

The Brussels Times selects some of the best exhibitions currently on show in museums and galleries.

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Art and events in Brussels

The Brussels Times selects some of the best exhibitions currently on show in museums and galleries.

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Art and Events in Brussels

The Brussels Times selects some of the best exhibitions currently on show in museums and galleries.

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Through Frida's eyes

"People always focus on Kahlo’s pain and suffering, on the infidelity of her husband or her disability, or her struggles with mental health. But she was so much more than that."

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Art and Events in Brussels

During lockdowns, people posted photos of the view from their window while sharing intimate testimonies about their fears, hopes and lives in confinement. The collection is currently at the Atomium.

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Art and events in Brussels

Discover the National Bank of Belgium not as an institution, but as a hidden gem of modernist architecture that also plays home to a contemporary art collection of more than 2,000 pieces, now celebrating its 50th anniversary.

Brussels cyclists call for an end to ‘invisible’ bike lanes

Many of the markings for cycling paths in Brussels have faded or disappeared completely, creating an unsafe situation for people navigating the city by bike.

First major Belgian restaurant chain to partner with anti-food waste app ‘Too Good To Go’

People with the Too Good To Go app will be able to log on at the end of the day and purchase heavily-discounted meals that would have otherwise been wasted.

Flemish Government must pay Greenpeace €850,000 for inadequate air pollution policy

"It is painful that in our country, you apparently have to litigate persistently to ensure that our government complies with regulations to protect our health."

Taxi and Uber drivers stage protest in front of Brussels parliament

Both traditional cab drivers and those who work for platforms like Uber are protesting the new Brussels Taxi Plan - but for completely opposite reasons.

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