This year began with the request from  Darwin College, Cambridge, to deliver in February one of the annual Darwin Lectures, the theme for 2024 being ‘Revolution’. My talk was titled Worlds turned upside down: Quiet Revolutions in Art.  Also this year a project funded  by the McDonald Agape Foundation, under the title Theology, Modernity and the Visual Arts,  ended with the publication of a book of this same title, which distilled research presented and discussed at symposia, held between 2018 and 2022. It is richly diverse in content and method. My chapter is titled Vision and Mission: Making Art for a World in Danger.  Almost simultaneously there appeared the first major, multi-author book on Chila Burman, the artist who transformed Tate Britain’s grand, classical, riverside entrance portico into a celebration of Hindu-Punjabi culture. My contribution is the chapter  ‘Working with Light: The Magic of Neons’.  Other events this year have been a return visit to the Kings’ Lynn Festival, for a lecture on post-war art, and ahead lies a trip to Kyoto, Japan, to contribute  to a conference about the impact  of modern French art in certain cities in the early twentieth century.