As a beginning teacher years ago, I was surprised to hear a principal offer some amazingly simple advice for maintaining order in the classroom. The suggestion would not guarantee classroom ...
Stained glass windows were a hallmark of upward-mobility sensibilities, an aspirational gesture for people enjoying the fruits of boomtown St. Paul. MinnPost’s reporters work hard to bring you news ...
The mention of stained glass often brings to mind Louis Comfort Tiffany and his magnificent windows. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a wave of German, Austrian and Swiss immigrants settle ...
Steve Gentis spends his days marrying soft lead to glass, and his rough hands show the strain with cuts and stains. In the studio at Seattle Stained Glass in Wallingford, Gentis’ hands move swiftly ...
If you were to poll the average American Jewish man and woman on the street about what constitutes normative American synagogue architecture, stained glass windows would probably be the very last ...
Critics say the emphasis on diversity and emotional expression risks translating a central mystery of the Church into the ...
A nearly 150-year-old stained-glass church window that depicts a dark-skinned Jesus Christ interacting with women in New Testament scenes has stirred up questions about race, Rhode Island’s role in ...
Hundreds of thousands of people resent the idea of new stained-glass windows to adorn the restored cathedral. Historians think the art itself could win them over.
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X In today’s U.S. they are beloved for their beauty. But what happens to those windows when the ...
CHICAGO (CBS)-- The stained glass windows from St. James Church on Wabash Avenue are a rare part of Chicago history, and many thought they were lost forever. St. James Church itself was gutted by fire ...
There is a well-known scene early in “Remembrance of Things Past” when Marcel Proust describes the enchantments of a magic lantern, “in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory ...
Hidden in the mausoleums of one of New York's cemeteries sits a king's ransom of breathtaking stained glass - commissioned by the city's rich and powerful more than a century ago. Officials at ...