Here is a selection of my published articles on cultural subjects from architecture and art through dance and design to music and theatre.
Publications include the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News, cultural magazines The Strad and DAMn, and the arts pages of Belgium's The Bulletin and Flanders Today.
ARCHITECTURE:
Rubens, the Flemish Italian (Flanders Today)
The Sheltering Sky: Sukkah Stories (DAMn)
Deprez&Verelst: At home in a book (The Bulletin)
Rubens, the Flemish Italian (Flanders Today)
The Sheltering Sky: Sukkah Stories (DAMn)
Deprez&Verelst: At home in a book (The Bulletin)
Olivier Bastin: Brussels gets a Bouwmeester (The Bulletin)
The Autrique House in Brussels: the restoration story of a Victor Horta house (Flanders Today)
Hoodwinked: How Bruges transformed itself into a mediaeval village in the 1870s (Flanders Today)
ART:
Cy Twombly's Delicate Dryprints (Wall Street Journal Europe)
The Poles Attract: largest exhibition of Polish art since the collapse of communism in 1989 (DAMn)
Mad Mayer: The story of an obsessed Antwerp art collector (Flanders Today)
Mad Mayer: The story of an obsessed Antwerp art collector (Flanders Today)
Venetian and Flemish Masters: Mutual affection (Flanders Today)
Berlinde De Bruyckere at Bozar (Flanders Today)
Gossaert at the National Gallery (Flanders Today)
Van Eyck to Duerer: Flemish Primitives and Central Europe (Flanders Today)
Luc Tuymans: where surprise is central (Flanders Today)
Belgian Art Nouveau Collectors Pay Taxes in Hortas and Gallés (Bloomberg News)
Hungarian Fauvism (Flanders Today)
What remains in Ieper (Flanders Today)
Philippe Van Snick and Angus Fairhurst in Leuven (Flanders Today)
Series on Flemish artists
Gust De Smet
Roger Raveel
Geo De Vlamynck
Jan Vanriet’s exhibition Closing Time at Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Flanders Today)
CERAMICS:
Vogler studio: the pottery wheel of fortune (Flanders Today)
DANCE:
Playing with dancers: All the right moves (The Strad)
The Twelve Days of Dance: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (Flanders Today)
Flanders Ballet goes to Edinburgh (Flanders Today)
DESIGN:
The Lowdown on Gillick and Weiner (DAMn)
Lighting up an 11th century Italian monastery (Flanders Today)
The design criminals: Studio Job (Flanders Today)
The Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops) and silver (Flanders Today)
It's All Downhill From Here On: Filip Gilissen (Flanders Today)
Art of the Loom – Mark Deweer (Flanders Today)
FASHION:
It’s divine, darling: Hasselt Modemuseum (Flanders Today)
MUSIC:
Bright music in Brussels: Klarafestival (Wall Street Journal Europe)
Passing on the baton: profile of Augustin Dumay (Wallonia and Brussels - WAB)
Latin Lovers: amateur music around the world (The Strad)
Striking chords: spotlight on EU-funded orchestras Page1, Page 2 (European Voice)
Song for a mad director:
Queen Elisabeth Competition: Eight Days in a Golden Cage (The Bulletin)
Cultural kick-start at deFilharmonie (Flanders Today)
OPERA:
La Monnaie's Foccroulle Updates Image, Dreams of Almodovar (Bloomberg News)
THEATRE:
Desdemona: Shakespeare retold (Flanders Today)
Monty, an Antwerp cultural landmark ahead of its time (Flanders Today)