Category: Issue 118
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Exhibition: Of Earth and Heaven: Art from the Middle Ages
Until March 10th, 2018 In association with Sam Fogg, the Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, is currently hosting Of Earth and Heaven: Art from the Middle Ages, an exhibition of late Medieval painting, sculpture, stained glass and goldsmiths’ work. Bringing together some of the finest masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance art still in private hands,…
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The Stained Glass Museum Annual Lecture 2018: Exhibiting Stained Glass in 19th Century London and Paris
Wednesday, 9th May, 6.30pm for 6.45pm Ely Cathedral, South Transept For this year’s annual lecture, Jasmine Allen, Curator of the Stained Glass Museum, will take her audience back in time to explore the fascinating, and often surprising, displays of stained glass at International Exhibitions over the course of the 19th century. Drawing from glass exhibited…
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Reminder: The Stained Glass Museum Study Weekend 2018: Suffolk
Thursday, 19th April – Sunday, 22nd April 2018 The Stained Glass Museum’s 2018 Study Weekend will take place in Suffolk, from lunchtime on Thursday 19th April to the morning of Sunday 22nd April 2018. Based in the historic market town of Bury St Edmunds, former home to one of the richest Benedictine abbeys in medieval…
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British Society of Master Glass Painters Spring Lecture 2018: Bradley + Basso, by Ray Bradley and Denise Basso
Friday, 16th March, 6.15pm for 6.45pm The Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT Ray Bradley established his architectural glass art studio in West London in 1964, and in the years since has designed and made many works in an expanded use of glass techniques for a large range of situations in the…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: ICON STAINED GLASS GROUP CONFERENCE, 8-9 May, 2018
The ICON Stained Glass Group Conference for 2018 on the theme of ‘Conservation, Communication, and Collaboration’ will be held at Glaziers Hall, the central London home of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers, on 8 and 9 May 2018. The conference’s deliberately broad themes seek to explore recent developments and challenges in the field of stained…
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The Stained Glass Centre: Stained Glass Workshops 2018
The Stained Glass Centre in York has announced the dates of this year’s summer workshops. Four one-day, self-contained workshops in glass painting and leading will be held on the fol-lowing dates: Saturday 23rd June – Glass painting Saturday 30th June – Glass painting Sunday 1st July – Glazing Saturday 14th July – Glazing Workshops on…
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Reminder: University of York Spring Master Class
On Saturday, 3rd March, 2018, the University of York’s MA in Stained Glass Conservation and Heritage Management will hold its Spring Master Class. Following the theme of Collectors and Collections, speakers will include Dr Ute Bed-narz (CVMA Potsdam), Anna Eavis (English Heritage), Dr Marie Groll (independent scholar), Dr Joseph Spooner (CVMA GB), and Dr Ivo…
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Medieval Stained Glass an Instagram Hit
York Minster, and its impressively extensive collection of medieval stained glass, features within a list of the twelve ‘most instagrammable sights’ in the UK. Research by the travel company, Expedia, found that the medieval landmark was snapped more than 89,000 times last year.
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Windows for the World: Nineteenth-Century Stained Glass and the International Exhibitions, 1851-1900
By Jasmine Allen (Manchester University Press) ISBN 9781526114723, 264pp., 240 x 170 mm, £75.00 Windows for the World explores the display and reception of nineteenth-century British stained glass in a secular exhibition context. International in scope, and founded on research carried out in Europe, America and Australia, the book focuses on the global development of…
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The Penitencer’s Window in York Minster
Sarah Brown, Director, The York Glaziers Trust The Penitencer’s window (n27, Fig. 1) in the north nave aisle is the second of three 14th-century windows undergoing conservation in the period 2016-19 (the others being n25 and n26), at the start of a new twenty-year programme of work that will see all exposed windows conserved, repaired…