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Happy New Year 2022!  Thanks for staying with us in 2021 and thank you, as always, for your comments. Good Riddance, But Now What? by Ogden Nash Come, children, gather round my knee; Something is about to be. Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark! It’s midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year.

Art of 17th century Dutch Republic and Flanders: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [image: Detail of portrait of woman in a dress and head covering, seated in front of a landscape painting on an easel] Credit *Self-Portrait of the Artist in Her Studio*, about 1680 (detail) Maria Schalcken (Dutch, 1645/50–before 1700) Oil on panel * Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art * Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In the 17th century, global commerce fueled the economy of the Netherlands and Flanders and sparked an artistic boom. Merchants sailed from Amsterdam, Antwerp and other ports across seas and ocea...  read more Art of Ancient Greece, Rome and the Byzantine Empire: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [image: Detail of Byzantine mosaic depicting two figures said to be the personfication of Pleasure and Wealth] Credit *Mosaic with personifications of Pleasure and Wealth (detail)* 6th century C.E. Stone and glass tesserae * Gift of

  Credit Self-Portrait of the Artist in Her Studio , about 1680 (detail) Maria Schalcken (Dutch, 1645/50–before 1700) Oil on panel * Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art * Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   In the 17th century, global commerce fueled the economy of the Netherlands and Flanders and sparked an artistic boom. Merchants sailed from Amsterdam, Antwerp and other ports across seas and oceans, joining trade networks that stretched from Asia to the Americas and Africa. This unprecedented movement of goods, ideas and people, both free and enslaved, gave rise to what some have called the first age of globalization. On November 20, 2021, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), opens a   suite of seven newly renovated galleries   that explore the rich visual culture of the Dutch Republic and Flanders during this time, bringing together nearly 100 paintings by the greatest masters—includi

This year's Correspondents' Look Ahead will be  broadcast on BBC Radio 4  at 8pm on New Year's Eve.  In anticipation of that, here's a review of last year's edition when BBC correspondents Lyse Doucet, Aleem Maqbool, Dharshini David, Gabriel Gatehouse, Justin Rowlatt and Katya Adler gathered on New Year's Day to look ahead to 2021. It's a remarkable listen, showing the BBC echo chamber in full cry  - or, perhaps more accurately, full echo.  I've never attended an Observer -sponsored round-table conference for journalists, left-wing activists and campaign groups, but I imagine this is what it might be like.  For starters Just consider this, for starters, from Lyse Doucet's introduction as she looked back to 2020 and said that, “as always”, there was “some good” amid “so much bad” in 2020. This are the two things she put on 2020's 'plus' side: The Black Lives Matter movement put injustice and diversity on the agenda as nev