Belgium deprived of an Hergé exhibition

On Thursday, December 21st, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Belgium announced the cancellation of the exhibition in Brussels that was to celebrate the anniversary in 2007 of Hergé's birth. Elsewhere, in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, an exhibition dedicated to the Belgian comic book illustrator was opened on December 20th. "Treachery !" cries Daniel Couvreu. "Belgians aged between 7 and 77 years have nothing left to do but cry their way to Paris in the Thalys [train linking Brussels and Paris]. The 100th anniversary of the greatest comic book creator of the 20th century is being celebrated in Paris ... A hundred thousand euros too short, the Fine Arts have decided to give up organising 'Hergé and the World of Art'', the design of which-minimalist- had as a theme Alph'Art and included canvases from the personal collection of Hergé, fan of Warhol, Lichtenstein, Poliakoff, Oppenheim, Newman, Fontana, Appel, Miró and Holbein. ... In order to console the Belgians, the Hergé studios are thinking about a subterranean exhibition at Brussels' Place Royal, honouring other Hergé characters."

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