US designer Brandon Wen’s fearless vision is shaking up the Antwerp Royal Academy’s celebrated fashion department.
Thanks to state-of-the-art sorting and recycling facilities, Belgium now leads Europe in packaging waste recovery.
“They told me I had two choices: Take him in or we’ll call the police and they’ll come to get him. I thought, 'Well no, I’m not going to hand him over to the police'.”
The Brussels Times visits the museum with the striking glass façade ahead of its three-year closure for much-needed renovations.
The team at Ghent’s Volvo plant is a factory producing a car every 79 seconds, making it a resilient outlier in Belgian car manufacturing.
The timing could not have been better for the new Belgian film 'Julie Keeps Quiet', about a teenage tennis player trying to stay focused as her coach is suspended for abusive behaviour.
“I have seen throughout my career the effect that arts can have on people.”
"Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker could be the world’s most influential dancer, whose choreography has inspired art across the genres and platforms."
"With the onset of Christianity in Congo, baloji came to mean witchcraft, black magic. Now in the everyday language, it refers to evil spirits. So it’s not an easy name to live with. It’s like calling yourself demon or devil.”
It’s the 50th edition of the Ghent Film Festival, founded in 1974 by a penniless cinephile who just wanted to screen great movies.
"The drugs world is threatening the public and decision-makers. I think it will get worse, and I’m afraid that more tragedies will follow."
Ghent founded its Fine Arts Museum even before Belgium became an independent country, providing a haven for some of the most important Flemish paintings. MSK Gent now celebrates its 225th anniversary.
“It’s not just one story, it’s about finding your way in life, about trying to reconnect to nature, what is nature, accepting death, how to say goodbye, how to forgive yourself and others. It’s about life itself.”
Film Fest Ghent has built a reputation over the past half-century as the go-to event for soundtracks.
Like Dhont’s film debut, Girl, – about a transgender teenager determined to become a ballerina – Close struck a nerve at Cannes last May, winning the festival’s Grand Prix.
"I always tell people: If you admire me or you hate me, do it because of what I think and what I say and what I do, not because of who I am."
“It’s an impossible love – a Tristan and Isolde story.”
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