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The British Royal Collection: Bruegel to Rubens
BRUSSELS • The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium • 16 May - 21 September 2008

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium host some fifty paintings from the collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The exhibition was previously on view at The Queen’s Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse and then subsequently at Buckingham Palace in London. The selection, centers on major works by Memling, Metsys, Gossaert, Bruegel the Elder, Paul Bril, Rubens and Van Dyck. These works are on view alongside relevant masterpieces from the Beligan collections. The Massacre of the Innocents by Bruegel the Elder from the British Royal Collection takes for the first time its place beside The Numbering at Bethlehem from the Museum of Fine Arts collection, thus providing a opportunity to see the way in which Bruegel depicted biblical scenes in the snowy Brabant landscape in these two paintings. The British royal collection is renowned for its great holding of works by Rubens and Van Dyck, both artists having spent time in England, and with Van Dyck having been employed at the court of Charles I for nine years.

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Web Site

Contact:

Rue de la Régence 3
1000 Brussels
Tel: (32) 2 508 32 11

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Heads on Shoulders: Portrait Busts in the Netherlands, 1600 – 1800
ANTWERP • Royal Museum of Fine Arts • 12 September - 14 December 2008

This exhibition features not only portrait busts modelled from life, but also head-and-shoulder sculptures representing mythological characters, ancient philosophers and writers, and emperors of the past. Sculptures from classical antiquity were, after all, a source of great inspiration in 17th- and 18th-century art.

Artists such as Artus Quellinus I, Lucas Faydherbe and François Duquesnoy were unparalleled masters at such realistic sculptures and, not surprisingly, they achieved great international fame in their lifetime. This show of busts of mythical heroes and rulers, true-to-life portrait sculptures of famous writers, members of the bourgeoisie and voluptuous actresses introduces the visitor to the virtuosity of these artists.

Royal Museum of Fine Arts , Antwerp Web Site

Contact:

Leopold De Waelplaats
B-2000 Antwerpen
Belgium

Tel: (32) 3 238 78 09

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Contemporary African Art BRUSSELS • Camouflage • Ongoing
Contemporary African art is the focus of this new gallery in Brussels. This first show features the work of twelve African artists including the installations of gallery-owner Fernando Alvim from Angola.

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Tel: (32) 2 502 01 17

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Kembra Pfahler: The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, 2007
Photo: Kristy Leibowitz
Photo courtesy of Palais des Beaux-arts, Brussels

It's not only Rock 'n' Roll, Baby!
BRUSSELS • Palais des Beaux-arts • 20 June - 14 September 2008

It's not only Rock 'n' Roll, Baby! or how the voice of rock emerged in the visual arts. The show brings together works by musicians from the 1970s to the present day, including Patti Smith, Brian Eno, Chicks on Speed, Fischerspooner, Devendra Banhart, Pete Doherty among others.

The artists:
Alan Vega, Antony, Bent van Looy (Das Pop), Bianca Casady (Cocorosie), Brian Eno, Chicks on Speed, David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, Fischerspooner, Jonsi Birgisson (Riceboy Sleeps), Kembra Pfahler, Kyle Field, Laurie Anderson, Miss Kittin, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeah's), Patti Smith, Pete Doherty, The Kills, The Residents and Yoko Ono!

Videos / music by : Doug Aitken / LCD Soundsystem, Dara Birnbaum / Rhys Chatham, Robert Breer & William Wegman / New Order, CocoRosie, Lucile Desamory & Kevin Blechdom, Peter Downsbrough / The Wallets, Robert Frank / Patti Smith, Damien Hirst / Blur, Camille Henrot / Principles of Geometry, Derek Jarman / The Smiths, Derek Jarman / Throbbing Gristle, Richard Kern / Sonic Youth, Kevin Meul / Das Pop, Paper Rad, Martin Parr / Pet Shop Boys, Rocky Schenck / Devo, Nicolas Soquette / Sun OK Papi KO, Wolfgang Tillmans / Pet Shop Boys, Fabien Verschaere / Liquid Architecture, Graeme Whifler / Renaldo & the Loaf, Wyldfile / The Gossip.

Palais des Beaux-arts Web Site

Contact:

Palais des Beaux-arts
Rue Royale
Brussels
Tel: (32) 02 507 82 00

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Maison Cauchie BRUSSELS • Maison Cauchie • Beginning 2 March 2001
No visit to Brussels would be complete without a visit to the Maison Cauchie - one of the finest examples of Art Nouveau art and architecture in Europe. Detailed schedule information: Beginning on 2 March, 2001, visits will be limited to the first Friday, Saturday and Sunday of each month.

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(32) 2 673 15 06

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Il Giardino Armonico : Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano
BRUSSELS • Palais des Beaux-arts • 9 September 2008

Antonio Caldara: Sinfonia (La Passione di Gesù Christo)
Biagio Marini: Passacaglio in sol
Claudio Monteverdi: Pianto della Madonna sopra il Lamento d'Arianna
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto madrigalesco, RV 129, Sonata, RV 130, "Al Santo Sepolcro", Sinfonia per archi, RV 169, "Al Santo Sepolcro"
Francesco Conti: Aria "Sento già mancar la vita" (Il Martirio di S. Lorenzo)
Johann Georg Pisendel: Sonata in do minore
Silvius Leopold Weiss: Prelude in E flat major, for lute
Georg Friedrich Händel: Giunta l'ora fatal (Il pianto di Maria), HWV 234 (attr. Giovanni Battista Ferrandini)

Palais des Beaux-arts Web Site

Detailed schedule information:
20h

Contact:

Henry Le Boeuf Hall
Rue Ravenstein
Brussels
Tel: (32) 02 507 82 00

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Ictus: Georges Aperghis - Music and film BRUSSELS • Kaaitheater • 20 September 2008
Ictus Georges Aperghis: Happy End (after Charles Perrault's Le Petit Poucet) BOZAR Web Site Detailed schedule information: 20h 30

Contact:

Kaaitheater
Sainctelettesquare 20
1210 Brussels

Tel: (32) 02 507 82 00

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Matthew Shipp: Roy Campbell Quartet ANTWERP • deSingel Internationaal Kunstcentrum • 6 September 2008
Matthew Shipp, piano Roy Campbell Quartet deSingel Internationaal Kunstcentrum Web Site Detailed schedule information: 17:15 - 18:15 18:30 - 19:30 16:00 - 17:00

Contact:

Desguinlei 25
B-2018 Antwerp
Tel: (32) 3 248 28 28

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Snoop Dogg BRUSSELS • Forest National • 20 September 2008
American Hip Hop artist Snoop Dogg (b. 1971, California) in concert. Forest National Web Site Detailed schedule information: 20h

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Avenue Victor Rousseau 208
1190 Forest
Tel: (32) 09 00 84 300

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