Draper Guild News Today

There is something babyish about the Bezoses in the painting.

Countless tributaries have run from the river of words that is the Bible. For a child in Newcastle in the 1970s, holding a little copy was unfathomable.

In the winter of 1964, my husband was returning to school in New York. It was Boxing Day. At JFK airport, he was captivated by a portly Black man dressed in a suit and tie, over which he wore an ankle...

The city presents a series of events and performances informed by its beautifully restored venues, and its influential back catalogue

Asking price: €725,000 Agent: Sherry FitzGerald (01) 8394022 Good Friday marked the beginning of a new annual term of office for the syndics of the Draper’s Guild of Amsterdam — a crew of 17th century import inspection officials with their beady eyes on the material world. The who? We’d know nothing about this black-suited posse of Dutch petty trade officialdom today were it not for the genius of Rembrandt. The syndics’ job was to inspect and grade import cloth before it was permitted...

"Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly In League With The Night" at Tate Britain 2020. Photo: Tate. (Seraphina Neville). After leaving Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s blockbuster mid-career Tate Britain retrospective, “Fly In League With The Night,” I rushed to post my thoughts about the show on Instagram. My own impassioned views were swiftly swallowed by others, as the often-touted “art-world darling” met almost unrelenting praise from critics. Indeed, this is the exhibition we needed. We needed to s...