Through September 2025; Scaffolding included; Restorers and researchers exhibition; Studio Rubens; Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp; Enthroned Madonna Adored by Saints; Painted for the altar of the Church of St Augustine circa 1628 by Peter Paul Rubens; Altarpiece as a Counter-Reformation manifesto; and…
Single-task Musing
experiencing an typewriter’s journey from Paris
On that day, I was on the buyers’ side. For several months, I was looking for a typewriter to decorate my bookshelves, a thinly disguised nod to those writers from another century that I admired. In vain. Of all I had seen, none had aroused in me the nervous excitement that one feels when buying something not out of need, but out of envy. As I walked through the crowded aisles of this…