Luminous Canterbury Pilgrims: Stained Glass at the Cloisters

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Holland Cotter

NEW YORK---Medieval Christian religious art, like Christian theology, is based on a complicated interweaving of darkness and illumination. With monastic masonry shipped in from Europe, an interior filled with liturgical luxe, and its air fragrant with spiritual expectation, the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum’s medieval redoubt in Upper Manhattan, is a complete atmospheric package, and one of the city’s great examples of installation art. The installation, like the medieval worldview, appears to be fixed but is open to fortuitous interventions, and there’s one on view now in the form of six large windows that seemed to have been beamed down from on high for “Radiant Light: Stained Glass From Canterbury Cathedral.”  [link]