Private museum pops up to fill a gap in Brussels

In Brussels, a city with no public museum of contemporary art, an unorthodox private institution is due to open its doors on 24 March. The founding directors of the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (Mima) are a pair of Belgian dealers, Alice van den Abeele and Raphaël Cruyt. Since 2005, they have represented a roster of international street artists at the Alice Gallery in Brussels.
While many of the same names appear in Mima’s collection of culture created after 2000, the museum i