s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Cultural coup and an art show tribute to Bosch!

In February, this small Dutch town an hour south of Amsterdam by train will stage a cultural coup. Dutch Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch was born and worked in the town, and died there 500 years ago. To pay tribute, the Noordbrabants Museum is putting on an exhibition of 39 of the artist’s iconic paintings and drawings – the largest ever Bosch exhibition. The whole town is getting into the spirit of the artist’s fantastical paintings, with fringe events such as a jaunt around the city’s canals and river called the Boat Trip of Heaven and Hell, and some of Bosch’s more grotesque works projected on to walls beneath its tunnels and bridges.