• Remembering the first women of the Royal Academy | Letter

    Remembering the first women of the Royal Academy | Letter
    Angelica Goodden notes that two founder members were women, two centuries before Dame Laura Knight became an AcademicianLara Feigel isn’t quite accurate in saying that Dame Laura Knight was the first female Royal Academician (The life less ordinary of artist Laura Knight, 14 October). In 1767, when England was a more European country than it has sadly become since, that honour went to two female painters, the founder members Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser, both Swiss by birth but enthusi
  • Why This Jazz Drummer Finally Left New York

    Why This Jazz Drummer Finally Left New York
    I lived there 19 years. As we were coming out of lockdown, it seemed incredible to me that New York was becoming an even more unsustainable place for musicians to live. If that were possible. – Jazz Times

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