BERNARD VAN ORLEY & PIETER BRUEGEL - Journey Into The RENAISSANCE in BRUSSELS

Musees Royaux Des Beaux-Arts De BELGIQUE

Responsible Author: Ruby BIRD & Yasmina BEDDOU (Journalists/Directors) | PARIS - BRUSSELS, 03/05/2019, 07:41 Time

USPA NEWS - According to Folklore, Saint Gorik built a Small Chapel on an Island in the Zenne, the River that still flows through Brussels, around 580 A.D. However, the Official Founding of Brussels dates to 979, when the First Permanent Fortification was built... Various Foreign Powers then controlled Brussels, until Dutch Emperor William I was forced to leave in 1830, when the Belgian Revolution took place in Brussels following a Performance of Auber's La Muette de Portici at La Monnaie Opera House. Finally, the Country gained Independence and, on 21 July 1831, the First Belgian King, Leopold I, ascended the throne, with Brussels being named Capital of the New kingdom.

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ARCO 2019 subscribes to the controversy

Madrilenian fair looks at Latin America

Responsible Author: Jose A. Martin / Rosana Rivera | Madrid, 03/01/2019, 11:11 Time

USPA NEWS - The International Fair of Contemporary Art in Madrid seems to have paid tribute to the controversy. Works presented in the years 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2018 were described as scandalous by critics and the public. And in this 2019 there is no lack of controversy: a giant doll made of the materials used to build the 'fallas' of Valencia - sculptures that, after being exposed on the street, are burned - and which represents King Felipe VI, wounds sensitivities .

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