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De demain à Delvaux (Liège, 20-6-2009)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

If you are a fan of the Belgian painter Delvaux you should hurry to Liège because this exhibit also ends this weekend!
It's in a new museum called "Grand Curtius" which is probably great too but we didn't visit it this time (we will next time certainly!).

The special Delvaux exhibit is very interesting because you get to see really old and unknown works for a chance.
We love his work so we totally enjoyed this trip!
More info: http://www.destinationsdelvaux.be/

Grand Hornu-Mac's (19-6-2009)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

Grand Hornu is a lot of things but I know it mainly because it's a Modern Art museum situated somewhere near Mons in Belgium. We've always wanted to go there but we were waiting for an exhibit that we HAD to see.
And now it has arrived!

The exhibit we had to see is "Jeux de massacre" and it was brilliant! The museum isn't as big as we had expected but the works were all perfect: funny, unexpected, visually pleasing and intellectually stimulating (see pic).
If you still want to see this exhibit you have to hurry because it will end this weekend!

But Grand Hornu isn't just a cool modern Art museum! It is also an old charcoal mining site. The whole site is built in a perfectly preserved and restored Neo-Classical Napoleontic style.
You can get a free audio-guide that will tell you the whole story of the site. And that story is very interesting and iconic for the region Grand Hornu is in.

And to top this all of there is a restaurant with great sandwiches and beer!
More info: http://www.grand-hornu.be/

All that is solid melts into air (Mechelen, 6-6-2009)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

Last Week!

A great exhibit at several locations in Mechelen. Some of the works are brilliant, some are funny, some are beautiful and some are just there but it's well worth a tour!

http://www.stadsvisioenen.be/en_0/details.asp?recid=233

Backlit Heaven (6-6-2009)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

Last Week!

Great exhibit about the Catholic faith with no boring objects, questions or information! This exhibit wont give you many answers but it will give you something to think about.
And the objects are just nice to watch too ;-)

http://www.stadsvisioenen.be/en_0/details.asp?recid=234

ContourLight (Mechelen, 5-6-2009)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

Last Week!

I always love watching art at night and these objects can only be seen in the dark so that's brilliant!

If you cannot go check out the works on the site ;-)

http://www.contourmechelen.be/contourlight/NL/programma.html

The pains of being pure at heart (Trix, antwerpen, 25-5-2009)

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

One of my favourite new (American) bands. Their sounds is pretty old though more like The Jesus and Mary Chain then anything more recent.
They have just released their debut album which is full of great songs so I had to check them out live.

They performed in a room which was actually more like a bar so the sound wasn't always good and they aren't totally convincing yet live. Of course this is their first time in Europe so I'm sure they'll be brilliant with some more performance-experience and some venues with better sound.

Check them out http://www.thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com/