How does a scientist find out how people adjust their language use when they are together? People start talking differently with someone who doesn't speak their language or is hard of hearing, but how ...

SHORTLY before the war, the eminent Dutch essayist Menno ter Braak attended an international writers’ congress in Paris. Many distinguished writers had spoken before him, and the audience was very ...

Flemish artists are calling for the introduction of a fixed quota for Dutch language repertoire with the public broadcaster VRT's radio stations. By Marc Maes Flemish artists are calling for the ...

Beantown has become New New Amsterdam, with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston nearly doubling its Dutch and Flemish holdings, adding 114 donations, promised gifts, and loans from two collecting ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has consigned 17 works by Dutch and Flemish masters to be sold at two live auctions at Christie’s in New York in February. They are collectively estimated to sell for ...

There are a million great places to eat in busy Amsterdam — but sometimes all you want is out of the throngs of tourists that seem to be everywhere. It's not so hard to sneak away. Just one short ...

Christie's is offering a group of important and highly collectable 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), during two live auctions, Old Masters I and Old ...

Hendrick Avercamp (Dutch, 1585–1634) 'Winter Landscape near a Village' (circa 1610–1615) Oil on panel. Promised gift of Rose‑Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art ...

The question whether Flemish is a language or a dialect is as interesting, and as futile, as asking if Mancunian, Texan or Appalachian are languages or dialects of English. In the Netherlands as well ...

Dutch is the official language in Belgium. French-speakers often pejoratively call the Dutch language used by Flemings Flemish but it is Dutch nevertheless. The Flemish tend to use it to refer to the ...

EU Diary: It's playtime at De Plataan primary school in Merchtem, a small town about a 20-minute drive from Brussels. A class of 11-year-olds are steering their bicycles around an obstacle course ...