From Siena to Norwich, and weeping in galleries

With Nick Makoha, Matt Howard, and Jim Moir

Late last year when I was back in New York, I slipped into the Metropolitan Museum to see ‘Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300 ‒1350’ — which I’m delighted to say is opening at the National Gallery in London early next month*. It is a show full of jewels, glowing wood-painted panels, glass, manuscripts, fabrics, art created in a place that sat along the r…