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How to see 3D virtual reality animals on your smartphone
If you search on Google, from your smartphone, for the name of an animal you wish to see and click on the “View in 3D”option, in a couple of seconds you will have at home,in your own living room,...
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Spanish Still Life: Velázquez, Goya, Picasso, Miró
23 Feb-27 May. Described by organisers as "ambitious and original", this exhibition presents an overview of 400 years of Spanish still lifes. The show features works by Spanish masters from Velázquez...
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El Anatsui: The Beginning and The End
19 Jan-16 Dec. The search for social and personal identity is a central theme in the art of Ghana's El Anatsui whose work incorporates traditional African systems of symbols used to form patterns on...
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Sophie Podolski: Le pays où tout est permis
20 Jan-1 April. WIELS presents the first exhibition ever dedicated to the Belgian artist Sophie Podolski whose short career was marked by sexual liberation and disenchanted youth.
Podolski produced a...
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The New Wave of Flemish Comic Strip
19 Sept-3 June. The Belgium Comic Book Centre highlights the work of a younger generation of Belgian comic authors and illustrators whose award-winning work has been translated into several languages....
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Gao Xingjian: The awakening of consciousness
29 Sept-31 Dec. Although best known for winning the Nobel prize in Literature winner in 2000, the French-based Chinese author Gao Xingjian is also a visual artist.
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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Magritte, Broodthaers and Contemporary Art, Brussels
13 Oct-18 Feb. Exhibition highlighting the legacy of Belgian artists and friends René Magritte and Marcel Broodthaers.
With paintings, sculpture, installations and film, the exhibition examines how t...
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15 Sept-7 Jan. This exhibition at WIELS features new and already existing works by German-based American sculptor Rita McBride.
McBride's cross-disciplinary practice involves large-scale sculptures i...
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1 June-3 Sept. The Belgian Comic Book Centre hosts an exhibition cum learning game, centred around the adventures of Asterix among the Belgians by Goscinny and Uderzo. The exhibition makes reference t...
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14 Feb-3 Sept. The Belgium Comic Book Centre presents an exhibition dedicated to the work of leading comic book artist Gianni Alfonso Pacinotti, better known as Gipi.
Originally from Pisa, Gipi produ...
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Remigio Cantagallina: An Italian traveller in the Southern Netherlands
12 May-28 Aug. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium has enlarged a series of small drawings created more than 400 years ago by Florentine artist Remigio Cantagallina who worked at the court of th...
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20 April-13 Aug. Large-scale exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of Wiels - Center for Contemporary Art which has presented more than 65 shows since it was founded in the former Wielemans brewery...
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Yves Klein: Theatre of the Void
29 March-20 Aug. BOZAR explores the groundbreaking work of French artist Yves Klein (1928-1962) with an exhibition of unseen masterpieces and rarely-exhibited visual works.
The exhibition highlight...
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26 Oct-5 March. The Musée Picasso in Paris, in collaboration with BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, presents over 60 sculptures by Pablo Picasso, examining a lesser-known aspect of the artist's oeuvre....
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Erik van Lieshout: The Show Must Ego On
30 Sept-8 Jan. Erik van Lieshout is known for his provocative work which combines hard-hitting issues with humour.
The Rotterdam-based artist first came to prominence in the early 2000s for his vi...
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10 Sept-11 Dec. One of Portugal's leading contemporary artists, Helena Almeida has been a major figure in performance and in conceptual art since the 1970s.
The Lisbon-based artist is known for he...
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14 Oct- 22 Jan. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium look back at more than a century of modern Belgian art through paintings, drawings and sculptures.
The works on display examine Belgium's...
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Painting After Postmodernism - Belgium - USA
15 Sept-13 Nov. The exhibition comprises 256 paintings in 16 solo presentations by eight American and eight Belgian artists. All 16 artists are described as prominent, and the show compares new trends...
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Étienne Davodeau: Chronicles of real life
14 June-27 Nov. French comic artist Étienne Davodeau takes inspiration from his homeland, family and friends to create his popular imaginary comic-strip worlds.
On display is a broad range of Davo...
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Photorealism: 50 years of Hyperrealistic Painting
30 June-25 Sept. The Musée d'Ixelles presents an exhibition highlighting the Photorealism movement which developed in the US in the late 1960s.
Photorealism came in the aftermath of Pop Art and it...
