News & Views about Brussels

THE WORLD OF FRIDA KAHLO NOW IN BRUSSELS

The largest collection of Frida Kahlo’s work is naturally found in her native country in the Museo Dolores Olmedo. Now thanks to a special festival celebrating Mexican culture in Brussels, you can see many of the artist’s most important works in Europe. The European Union capital’s Bozar Centre for Fine Arts is showing [...]

DESIGN AND EXCLUSIVITY: THE NEW GREY GOOSE BAR, BRUSSELS

There are private clubs and members-only bars, and then there’s the new Grey Goose Bar in Brussels’ Barcardi-Martini headquarters. Officially open to employees only, it has also unofficially been adopted by a lucky few of the city’s most sophisticated crowds as a favorite hotspot. While the drinks and exclusivity are the most obvious [...]

BRUSSELS OPENS THE MAGRITTE MUSEUM

The Secret Player, 1927, oil on canvas, 152 x 195 cm
© Charly Herscovici, with his kind authorization – c/o SABAM-ADAGP, 2009
Last week Brussels opened a long-overdue cultural attraction in the city. Housed in a neoclassical building close to the Royal Palace is now the Magritte Museum in a 2500 m² space.
It’s part of a [...]

TRAVEL GAYDAR – GAY DESTINATIONS FOR 2009

This weekend Brussels will show the final films of its 10-day Gay and Lesbian Film Festival that takes place every January. It’s the first major gay event of 2009, a big year for gay travel.
If there is one travel market that doesn’t seem to ever be affected by global economic crisis is the gay [...]

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