Word: flemish
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...Cohen Gilespie. The exhibition consists of 25 paintings in all, and is a representative look at the influential styles of both artists. The two artists catch the interest of many because of the way in which they influenced each other through their portrayals of realism in early Italian and Flemish painting. Runs through March 28. Sackler Museum...
What is it about unmanned speed cameras that infuriates some fast-driving Europeans? Willem Laurens, an unemployed bodyguard, is accused of leading a gang that has torched 26 cameras in Flanders. "People don't like the Big Brother mentality," explains senator Jean-Marie Dedecker, a Flemish conservative. And not just in Belgium. Some 30 cameras are attacked every year in the Netherlands. In the U.K., Motorists Against Detection says it's destroyed hundreds. The mother of such crusades is the Tuf-tuf Club. Harald Kolijn, 33, from Helmond in the southern Netherlands, started it as a joke in 2000 with...
...first Grand Slam titles at the French and U.S. Opens. But their on-court success has been overshadowed by a rivalry that smells nothing like team spirit. The rocky relations between Clijsters, 20, and Henin-Hardenne, 21, roughly parallel the dividing lines in Belgian society. Clijsters, from the Flemish-speaking north, and Henin-Hardenne, from the French-speaking south, have long been cordial, never close. As they've risen to the top of the tennis world, relations have chilled. Henin-Hardenne has won four of their last five head-to-heads, including the Acura Classic final in August...
Having returned from a European tour with stops at the British Museum and the Institut Netherlands in Paris, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection is making its next stop at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum...
...Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection will be on display in the Fogg until July...