The Night Watch Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn would have celebrated his 419th birthday this week which is my excuse for writing about him. Rembrandt (he ditched the ‘Harmenszoon’ early and became known as, simply, Rembrandt) was […]
The Azerbaijani tenor and state official Yusif Eyvazov gave a recital in Moscow this weekend. ‘Missed you and will be back soon,’ he messaged with a picture in an Insta-post. Hours later, he took it […]
The hopelessly discredited funding body announced a major U-turn today. After years of complaint that it was making arts orgs spend more time on filling forms than making art, it has eased the rules for […]