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Designing Childhood
1w ago00:04:23Tap to summarizeDesigning Childhood, a current show at Design Museum Brussels retraces the evolution of furniture for children through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a history that will surprise you. Museum Director Arnaud Bozzini unveils the story for us.https://designmuseum.brussels/en/ Photo courtesy of Magis
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Venice biennale 2026: The Belgian Pavilion
2w ago00:04:43Tap to summarizeIt Never SSST, the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale is particularly vibrant this year as it features live performances for the first time. Miet Warlop, this year's exhibiting artist transforms the Belgian pavilion into a charged arena where language, music and collective disorientation collide.We speak with pavilion curator Caroline Dumalin. For those who can't make it to Venice from May through November this year, the entire project will relocate to KANAL next winter.http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2026/belgium
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Picture Perfect: Beauty Through a Contemporary Lens
3w ago00:04:39Tap to summarizeBozar's exhibition Picture Perfect: Beauty Through a Contemporary Lens takes on the increasingly hot button issue of the specificity of beauty. What is beauty and who decides? Is there room for different ideals? How are some people pressured into undergoing certain procedures and how are some people changing the norms?Curator Christel Tsilibaris leads us through this thorny landscape.https://www.bozar.be/en/watch-read-listen/picture-perfectThrough 16 August 2026
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I Am Here
4w ago00:03:17Tap to summarize"I am here - je suis là - ik ben hier" is a free trilingual exhibition at Espace Vanderborght exploring self-representation from traditional portraits to selfies. Organized by the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), it features interactive installations examining identity, media, and social media culture. Art Historian Margaux Van Uytvanck tells us what to expect.Free. Through 30 May
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On the Page: the Writers Festival of Belgium podcast #14: Dave Keating
Apr 2600:32:47Tap to summarizeIn this podcast Writers Festival of Belgium’s Alia Papageorgiou talks to Dave Keating a long time journalist in Brussels, usually covering EU US relations as a newscaster, he talks through how his levels of anger and passion towards the new status quo between the two continents birthed his book ‘The Owned Continent, How to free Europe from American military, economic, and cultural dependence. Enjoy
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RATZ food market
Apr 2600:02:21Tap to summarizeThere's a new food hall in an ex parking structure in the Saint-Boniface neighborhood in Ixelles. It's called RATZ and features cuisines from West Asia to East Asia. Food impresario Thierry Goor describes what he has created.ratzfoodmarket.com
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Brussels Short Film Festival
Apr 1900:05:04Tap to summarizeThe Brussels Short Film Festival (BSFF) is back with a 29th edition brimming with films to watch and events to enjoy. Corentin Deblire, festival co-coordinator outlines the action for us. 22 April to 2 Maybsff.be
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KBR's new panoramic lift
Apr 1200:03:31Tap to summarizeWhen is a lift not just a lift? When it connects the Mont des Arts with the rooftop of the Belgian Royal Library and its unique view of the city. Library Director Sara Lammens gives us the details. https://www.kbr.be/en/
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Bellezza e Bruttezza
Apr 500:03:51Tap to summarizeThe Bozar is presenting Bellezza e Bruttezza (Beauty and Ugliness), a look at how artists of the Renaissance in Italy and the Southern Nelherlands represented those extremes. Zoë Gray, Director of Exhibitions at Bozar, tells us how the show was realized and how they managed to assemble a very rich display of major works from institutions far and wide.www.bozar.be
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Visit.brussels protest against budget cuts
Mar 2900:02:40Tap to summarizeStaff at Visit.brussels protested near the city's parliament against budget cuts. The agency, which promotes Brussels worldwide, must save €5.7 million this year. More than 1,700 people have signed a petition against the cuts. Benjamin Vella, head of visitor services at Visit.brussels explains what is at stake.
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