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A miniature scene is set into a boot scraper outside a front door in Antwerp, Belgium, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Belgian artist Elke Lemmens is transforming disused boot scrapers in the port city of ...

Prized by antique dealers, revered by history buffs, but an object of puzzlement to many a 21st century pedestrian, the humble boot-scraper is back in the spotlight in its favoured home, Belgium.

Every day millions of New Yorkers walk along the miles of paved sidewalks, likely oblivious to the fact that walking city streets didn’t become a passtime until the mid-18th century in Europe when ...

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Life can feel smaller, even tiny during the coronavirus pandemic as public health restrictions limit social contacts to a bare minimum. But Belgian artist Elke Lemmens has ...

Belgian artist Elke Lemmens is using the community-building grant to install at least 50 miniature scenes in the old niches outside homes that families once used to clean off their shoes. ANTWERP: ...

Belgian artist Elke Lemmens lays on the sidewalk as she installs a miniature scene into a boot scraper in Antwerp, Belgium, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. ANTWERP, Belgium — Life can feel smaller, even tiny ...

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) -- Life can feel smaller, even tiny during the coronavirus pandemic as public health restrictions limit social contacts to a bare minimum. But Belgian artist Elke Lemmens has ...

ANTWERP: Life can feel smaller, even tiny during the COVID-19 pandemic as public health restrictions limit social contacts to a bare minimum. But Belgian artist Elke Lemmens has found a way to build ...

Life can feel smaller, even tiny during the coronavirus pandemic as public health restrictions limit social contacts to a bare minimum Wednesday 11 November 2020 07:43 GMT From reproductive rights to ...