Category Archives: Issue 116
Forthcoming Publication: Keith New: British Modernist in Stained Glass by Diana Coulter and Robert Smith
Keith New (1926-2012) was a pioneering British modernist stained glass artist in the 1950s and 1960s, yet this volume, by Diana Coulter and Robert Smith, is the first mono-graph devoted to his work. Divided into two parts, the first examines … Continue reading
Musée de Cluny – Grand Palais, Paris Exhibition
The Musée de Cluny, in collaboration with Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, is cur-rently presenting, “Le Verre, un Moyen Âge inventif”: an exhibition to illustrate the growth and excellence of the medieval art. Recognising that, in the Middle Ages, glass … Continue reading
Exhibition: Medieval York: Capital of the North at the Yorkshire Museum
From the fifth century onwards, for more than a thousand years, York ruled the North and rivalled any city as the capital of religion, royal power, commerce, art, conflict and wealth until the Tudor period. After a year in the … Continue reading
Westminster Abbey helps shine light on Stained Glass Myth
In the January 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, John Mauro, a researcher at Penn State University reports on his latest findings, inspired by a visit to Westminster Abbey, during which its surviving stained glass sparked … Continue reading
Seeing Past and Present in the Glazed Cloister of Park Abbey (1635-1644)
Monday 15 January 2018, 4.30pm Professor Ellen Shortell (Massachusetts College of Art and Design) The architecture of a monastic cloister offers a particular spatial arrangement for the display of images, whether in sculpture, painting, or stained glass. The closter space … Continue reading
