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Row over Notre-Dame’s stained glass re-ignites

The Art Newspaper

President Emmanuel Macron wants to replace the Paris cathedral’s 19th-century windows, even though they were not damaged in 2019 fire

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How American artist Charles J. Connick’s poetically reimagined Medieval stained glass

The Art Newspaper

A new book shows how Connick harnessed the ancient medium as ‘a potent means of contemporary visual expression’

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Street behind Tate Modern closed after glass panels fall from building

The Art Newspaper

Window panes from the Neo Bankside development, whose residents forced the museum to restrict access to its viewing gallery, smashed into the street

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Julie Mehretu creates towering glass mural for Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

The Art Newspaper

The artist's 83ft-tall work, “Uprising of the Sun”, is the most prominent of many art commissions for the centre

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Salisbury Cathedral conservation offers window into William Morris’s workshop

The Art Newspaper

Edward Burne-Jones’s stained-glass work has been removed for conservation for the first time

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Figurative painter Claire Tabouret chosen to design contemporary stained-glass windows for Notre-Dame

The Art Newspaper

Heritage organisations remain opposed to President Macron's plans to replace chapel windows at the newly reopened cathedral

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Famed Glass Chapel Designed by Lloyd Wright Will Be Disassembled

Artnet News

The post Famed Glass Chapel Designed by Lloyd Wright Will Be Disassembled appeared first on Artnet News. The historic building is at threat of "accelerating destruction" due to land movement.

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