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Lisa Bradshaw

The art events at Ghent’s pioneering museum

Ghent founded its Fine Arts Museum even before Belgium became an independent country, providing a haven for some of the most important Flemish paintings. MSK Gent now celebrates its 225th anniversary.

Love and mountains

“It’s not just one story, it’s about finding your way in life, about trying to reconnect to nature, what is nature, accepting death, how to say goodbye, how to forgive yourself and others. It’s about life itself.”

How Ghent celebrates the scores from the shoots

Film Fest Ghent has built a reputation over the past half-century as the go-to event for soundtracks.

Telling tales about troubled teenagers

Like Dhont’s film debut, Girl, – about a transgender teenager determined to become a ballerina – Close struck a nerve at Cannes last May, winning the festival’s Grand Prix.

Why Petra De Sutter is more than the world’s highest-profile transgender politician

"I always tell people: If you admire me or you hate me, do it because of what I think and what I say and what I do, not because of who I am."

The true tale of an 11th century French girl fleeing her Christian family to marry a Jewish boy

“It’s an impossible love – a Tristan and Isolde story.”

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