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Museumnacht 2025: A Night of Many Stories at Filmhuis Lumière
“A playground with something for everyone.” This is how Filmhuis Lumière presents its activities for Museumnacht 2025. Indeed, a very...
Augustin Forjonel-Legrand
Apr 8, 2025


Museumnacht 2025: A Tapestry of Sound and Story at Theater aan het Vrijthof
Have you ever gone to a boring concert and left disappointed? This time, it will not be the case. If you’re a music lover, you may want...
Clémence Bernard
Apr 6, 2025


“A Free, Conscious and Consensual Death” - Nicolas Menet’s Ultimate Plea for the Right of Death
Discussion with his tumor, moments of life with his friends, days in the hospital… faire le deuil de soi , or self-mourning, traces back...
Vanille Villez
Apr 2, 2025


“Food for People, Not for Profit” – How Maastricht University Students are Transforming Local Food Systems
It’s a Wednesday afternoon in Maastricht. In the sustainability hub, a group of Maastricht University (UM) students gather to unload...
Dominique Berendsen
Mar 31, 2025


Who Brought TEFAF’s 2025 Trophy?
Front and center at TEFAF is the Landau Fine Art Gallery. Their relatively large stand at 414 is earned by frequenting Europe's finest...
Emma Godfried
Mar 29, 2025


A Day at TEFAF 2025
For a second, the only sound you hear is the little beep of your ticket being scanned, your fingers grasping it gently in fear of...
Beatrice Vaitkeviciute
Mar 26, 2025


TEFAF 2025: Van Cleef & Arpels: more than the Alhambra
Van Cleef & Arpels is perhaps most known today for its iconic Alhambra. The clover charm almost serves as a logo for the brand itself....
Charlotte Godfried
Mar 22, 2025


The Great Exhaustion
In 2026, we are expected to be tired. Or we already are. Habitually, we are deleting social media applications from our phones in a...
Brooke Betten
Mar 21, 2025


How “The Godfather” altered our perception of the Mafia
Growing up in Sicily, I was inevitably made aware that my beloved land, even though beautiful, was haunted by an unspoken shadow: “Cosa...
Elide Saia
Mar 19, 2025


A Short Interview With Nowhere Girl
If you are a seeker of fervent poetry and unforgiving summer heat and ways to turn life to art and art to life until the two are one and...
Beatrice Vaitkeviciute
Feb 23, 2025


Breaking the Fourth Wall: Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show and the Politics of Performance
Except if you live in a cave, you could not have missed the annual U.S. Superbowl game, which took place in New Orleans (Louisiana) on...
Head Editor - Sarah Hourquet
Feb 21, 2025


The Baby Name Craze
Baby names. For some people, especially women and girls, the act of naming their baby, whether they are expecting it or not, is a ritual....
Elena Bovée
Feb 20, 2025


“Please don’t let it be a Muslim”: an interview on Islamophobia and racism after last summer’s events in the UK
On July 29 2024 in Southport, 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana was arrested after repeatedly stabbing three little girls as they left a Taylor...
Esther Wolff
Feb 19, 2025


Love is For The Ones Who Love the Work
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your...
Beatrice Vaitkeviciute
Feb 15, 2025


FashionClash: The art/tech/research nexus: Making sense of fashion through the eyes of an Arts, Science and Technology Studies student
For the rest of the world, life goes on as usual. Women and men, sitting together at round café tables, sipping coffee and chatting about...
Carolina Scheuch
Feb 12, 2025


China’s Solar Oceans
On a sweat-inducing, sweltering day last summer I landed in Shanghai. It had been a long time coming. Since high school, I had wanted to...
Jaap Steunenberg
Feb 11, 2025


Silent Suffering: China's hidden grasp on Hong Kong
When I was planning my solo trip to the mountains this year, I had no idea I would meet this inspiring Hong Kong citizen along the way...
Patrycja Tobola
Feb 10, 2025


The Trial of Luigi Mangione and the American HealthCare System
On December 4th this year, the CEO of UnitedHealthCare Brian Thomson was shot dead as he was walking to the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel...
Elena Bovée
Jan 23, 2025


A Tiny Hole Has Appeared in China’s Great Firewall
‘You must pay your cat tax!’ is what Chinese users of Red Note, also known as Xiaohongshu, are demanding of new American users. The cat...
Jaap Steunenberg
Jan 22, 2025


A Small Collection of Poetry for the Winter
The Space Between the Snow and the Sparrows After a tiresome trip, I made it back home for Christmas. I had not been feeling it this...
Beatrice Vaitkeviciute
Jan 8, 2025
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