This is the first Art Diary of 2025. Viewing art, as with its making, involves paying attention. As Simone Weil once pointed out, paying attention equates to prayer. A dazzling discovery has ...

The medieval Belgian town of Bruges attracts hordes of day-trippers – but don't let that keep you away. While the ultimate ...

Roche, who has made a name for himself with his work on iconic religious sites like Chartres cathedral in recent years, is ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts welcomed a new exhibit in late December featuring mostly Dutch and Flemish works with a similar ...

With exhibitions spanning nearly 720,000 square feet, Russia’s State Hermitage Museum is home to one of the largest known art collections. But the museum, which first opened its St. Petersburg doors ...

Belle da Costa Greene was a pioneering Black American librarian who became J.P. Morgan’s librarian, shaping the Morgan ...

Flemish nationalist Bart De Wever has been sworn in as the country's new prime minister following months of painstaking negotiations to form a coalition that moves the country further to the right ...

Photo: AFP It was another indication how times change, and bold demands for Flemish independence have made room for the hope of gradual change and finding a renewed balance between Dutch-speaking ...

Ecce Homo, a painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, has been found to be hiding a mysterious portrait of an unknown ...

president of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), the separatist party he founded in 2001, the head of Belgium's federal government. On Tuesday afternoon, he was due to make a policy statement to the ...

BRUSSELS — Belgium has a new prime minister whose political purpose was long to break up the nation, gut the state structures and give ever more autonomy to his northern Flanders at the cost of ...

He is the first Flemish nationalist to lead Belgium's government. New Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever raises his hand to take an oath during a swearing-in ceremony for the new government in ...