Stained glass

The two young women who blazed a trail for modernism in Ireland

3 May 2025 9:00 am

In 1921, the sternly abstract cubist Albert Gleizes opened the door of his Parisian apartment to two young women in…

‘Innovation is not enough’: meet visionary English painter Roger Wagner

1 February 2025 9:00 am

In the side chapel of the church of St Giles’, at the northern apex of the historic Oxford thoroughfare, hangs…

Why Thomas Becket still divides opinion

22 May 2021 9:00 am

The verdict is still out on Thomas Becket, says Dan Hitchens, but there’s no doubting the brilliance of the art he inspired

Walter Crane and James Silvester Sparrow, detail of Psalm 148, window (1896), Holy Trinity Church, Hull, Yorkshire. From Arts & Crafts Stained Glass, by Peter Cormack (Yale)

From cave painting to Maggi Hambling: the best Christmas art books

28 November 2015 9:00 am

It’s been a memorably productive year for art books (I have published a couple myself), but certain volumes stand out.…

Tate Modern’s latest show feels like it’s from another planet

18 October 2014 9:00 am

‘Some day we shall no longer need pictures: we shall just be happy.’ — Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, 1966…

God in a stained glass window

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Andrew Lambirth on the art of stained glass, as exemplified by Patrick Reyntiens