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The area comprising the Place Eugène Flagey was covered by the Ixelles Ponds until 1860 when one of the original ponds was drained as part of a new urban design. The square was originally known as the Place Sainte-Croix / Heilig-Kruisplein ("Holy Cross' Square") after the Hospice de la Sainte-Croix, a hospice located at the bottom of the current Rue de Vergnies / De Vergniesstraat. [3]
The Museum of Ixelles (French: Musée d'Ixelles; Dutch: Museum van Elsene), also called the (Municipal) Museum of Fine Arts of Ixelles (French: Musée (communal) des Beaux-Arts d'Ixelles; Dutch: (Gemeentelijk) Museum voor Schone Kunsten van Elsene), is a municipal art museum in Brussels, Belgium, focusing on Belgian art from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Ixelles is located in the south-east of Brussels and is divided into two parts by the Avenue Louise/Louizalaan, which is part of the City of Brussels.The municipality's smaller western part includes the Rue du Bailli/Baljuwstraat and extends roughly from the Avenue Louise to the Avenue Brugmann / Brugmannlaan, whilst its larger eastern part includes campuses of Brussels' two leading ...
The Flagey Building, designed by Joseph Diongre after winning a competition launched in 1933, [1] was opened in 1938. [2] The competition was launched to create a building to house the first national broadcaster in Belgium, the National Institute of Radio Broadcasting (French: Institut National de Radiodiffusion or INR, Dutch: Nationaal Instituut voor de Radio-omroep or NIR) (1930–1960). [2]
Musée Communal des Beaux Arts d’Ixelles, Brussels, exhibition Fabrizio Plessi, 2000; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Mimmo Paladino, 2003; Musée Ianchelevici, La Louvière, exhibition Mauro Staccioli : le lieu de la sculpture, 2003 [1] Atomium, Brussels, exhibition Enrico T. De Paris, Inside, 2007. [2]
[3] [6] Other important acquisitions included the Delia Faille de Leverghem (1942) donation, as well as the Delporte-Livrauw (1973) and Goldschmidt (1990) bequests. [3] In 1919, the museum changed its name to become the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (French: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Dutch: Museum voor Schone Kunsten van België).
The Résidence de la Cambre is the first high-rise building constructed in Brussels, Belgium. It was built in 1938–39, according to the plans of the architect Marcel Peeters, in a style inspired by New York Art Deco architecture. [1] The 17-story residential tower was listed as a protected monument on 14 July 2005. [2] [3] [4]
He also wrote a weekly column about disco for the music trade magazine Record World [7] (1974–1979), and reported about early clubs like David Mancuso's The Loft for The Village Voice in the late 1970s and 1980s. Aletti was a senior editor at The Village Voice for nearly 20 years until leaving in early 2005. [8]