Following two mid-career retrospectives illustrating the period 2000-2014, De Bruyckere is now showing her most recent work. She focuses on the period from 2014 up to the present. The book includes work that has never be seen before. These monumental works are inspired by the idea of an angel, as portrayed in myths, stories, literature and art history. Conceived in the loneliness and isolation of the corona crisis, the angel guards against a lonely existence and, even more importantly, agains...

During a press conference at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in November 2018, the author of this book revealed that one of the two known photographs of the painter Vincent van Gogh was in fact of his brother Theo. The series of events that led to this unexpected discovery is full of yet- unpublished anecdotes, fascinating encounters and twists worthy of a thriller.

Following this first revelation, Yves Vasseur established contact with the descendants of Samuel Delsaut, who discovered two dr...

De praktijk die de Belgische kunstenaar Maarten Vanden Eynde (geboren in 1977) heeft ontwikkeld, stoelt op wetenschappelijk onderzoek en verenigt diverse maatschappelijke, economische, ecologische en antropologische invalshoeken. Zijn oeuvre behandelt enkele van de belangwekkendste thema's van onze tijd, gaande van ongebreidelde bodemontginning en ecologie tot het kolonialisme en zijn nasleep. Het werk is opgevat als een alternatieve encyclopedie van de menselijke geschiedenis, een onderzoek ...

Explore Francis Bacon’s visceral paintings, where the line between human and animal is constantly blurred, reminding us that our primal instincts lie just below the surface.

Irish-born artist Francis Bacon was the horse-breeder’s son who became one of the most important painters of the 20th century.

An openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal, he was banished from his conservative family home by his father at 16. After that, he drifted through Berlin and Paris before establ...