Culture

A spat over the wisdom of spending millions of euros of public money on a museum about a popular newspaper comic strip featuring an obese anthropomorphic cat is dividing opinion within Belgium’s artistic community.

Belgium is all business at the front, in the very serious EU capital Brussels, but it’s all party at the back, in the little western town of Boussu. Here, outside an artisanal brewery, hundreds of nostalgics and merry-makers gathered on Saturday to celebrate the mullet, the iconic 1980s hairdo.

Belgian ballet fans are in for a real treat this weekend – 1 and 2 December 2018 – with performances in Brussels by the world-famous Moscow City Ballet. Swan Lake and the Nutcracker will be performed on Saturday and Sunday at Theatre Palais 12, a 2,000-capacity venue which is known for its intimacy and great visibility to the stage.

From the 26th till the 30th of September 2017, the Bozar Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF) will take place at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels. During the festival, the six winners from the STARTS Prize 2017 will show their installations. STARTS is where Science, Technology and the Arts (STARTS) come together.