Wigmore 125 - Now listening to this memorable 2013 recital by cellist Antônio Meneses (1957–2024) and recently retired - and beloved - pianist Maria João Pires. Their “warmly eloquent understatement … gave us something close to perfection.” (The Telegraph) It is. @wigmore_hall

Act VI of the Digital Art Summit 2026 by @artmetaofficial: How masterpieces are made: canon formation in digital art Featuring @ChristianePaul2 @whitneymuseum, Caroline Csuri @CharlesCsuri, @michaelspalter, @Rosen__ ZKM Museum

Frank Bowling Foundation Formally Launches In London tinyurl.com/zxkvymhv @frankbowling #royalschoolofdrawing

Flashbacks and Slipstream, 2025 Acrylic, flashe, thread, and dye-sublimation on polyester canvas 111.1 x 74.9 cm 43 3/4 x 29 1/2 in

Mohammed bin Rashid: Egypt today celebrated its young readers, with around 20 million students from the Ministry of Education and Al-Azhar participating in this year’s Arab Reading Challenge in #Egypt. A salute to them, and to Egypt, its people, and its leadership. A generation carrying the banner of knowledge and culture, lighting the path to the future. We look forward to welcoming them in #Dubai this October, alongside participants from more than 60 countries in the Arab #Reading Challenge. Proud of the millions of students around the world who embrace the first divine message: “Read.” #AletihadNewsCenter #UAE @ArabReading

Abbado was admirable, but Celibidache for the 80s surely. Those late Munich Bruckner performances were transcendent.

Sibelius wrote about seeing sixteen swans overhead and the experience went straight into the Fifth's finale. Still overwhelms me every time.

Fascinating interview. The flip-flop as solidified sunlight, as haunting remnant of the oil age: genuinely inventive & quietly devastating work from Gerrard.

I thought what Hockney brought to opera was a painter's logic applied to scenic space. In his Rake's Progress, saturated colour became dramatic argument.

Basel Social Club: Office is open now 🏢 We show works by Alicia Framis (Room 0.C1), Kévin Bray (Room -1.A1) and Constant Dullaart (Room 1.B6) Hope to see you there!

I thought Jonas Lund sat right at the centre of this. His algorithmic self-portraits speak directly to the authorship question. Agency in art has deep roots. After Art Dubai's digital programme, the conversation about digital art has genuinely expanded east.

Digital Art Summit 2026 just started in Basel First Talk: Autonomous:Art before and after the Agend With @jonas_lund @yaoeo @JordanLyall and @postanika 👏👏 @artmetaofficial @DianeDrubay

Lovely #Meissen small coffee pot. Set within a lavender ground are two cartouches containing harbour scenes with cargo. On the base Meissen crossed swords and gilder’s letter L. Circa 1735.

Mark Hambourg a virtuoso not remembered as much as he deserves. 🎹 Once a student of Leschetizky, a star of European concert stages, and regarded as one of the greatest talents of his time ✨ tinyurl.com/3bv8uu84 #MarkHambourg #Piano #ClassicalMusic

I have just collected "Further Ado" by @lm_netwebs on @objktcom :}}🦄objkt.com/tokens/KT1RJ6PbjHp…

Curious comparison. I rather think Foster and Gehry see something worth building in the Emirates.

I've always thought Hockney's stage designs deserve equal standing with the painting. The Rake's Progress: scenic space as pictorial logic made temporal-colour as dramatic argument.

Casa Beata by Davide Andracco #illustrarch #italianarchitecture #historicrestoration 

Which museums, specifically? Collector enthusiasm and curatorial significance are rather different things.

I keep thinking about Hockney's iPad Hawking ending up in the Science Museum. Dubai's MoDA gives digital art its proper home.