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The art world has been waiting for the opening of The Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp for more than a decade.

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Managing Director Carmen Willems of Tongeren has been allowed to show “her” works by Rubens and Ensor to the world again. The Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp is opening its doors with a big celebration, after an 11-year, over 100-million-euro restoration.

IT WAS DURING THE PRESS PREVIEW of Antwerp’s newly reopened Royal Museum of Fine Art, and we were in front of one of Berlinde de Bruyckere’s almost-human lumps, poignantly placed in front of Antonello Da Messina’s 1475 picture of Jesus and his fellow convicts similarly twisting in agony. “Flesh on pole! How very Flemish!” remarked the man next to me, and, as I would find out at lunch, he was right. For fashion in Flanders is for small servings of raw animal: thinly sliced scallops, ceviche, carpaccio, and steak tartar, one after the next, presented as the set menu to parties of thirt...

From the outside, it’s difficult to see the impact of the $105 million, 11-year renovation and expansion of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, one of