'Hurrah, it’s leprosy!' How a conservator and a historian are decoding the grisly tales in Canterbury Cathedral’s stained-glass windows

Medieval art

Print

Heritage

Religious art

Museums & Heritage

Canterbury Cathedral

British Museum

Exhibitions

Stained glass

A detail from North III, one of seven surviving 12th- to 13th-century Miracle Windows in Canterbury Cathedral. The entire 6m-high window will soon go on display at the British Museum in London—having been reassembled correctly for the first time in centuries 

Closure of London's Florence Nightingale Museum fuels fears that the pandemic will force smaller UK institutions to shut

Museums

British Museums

Funding

coronavirus

Closures

The Florence Nightingale Museum, located at St Thomas’ Hospital in London, announced it will close indefinitely in response to the financial pressures of the pandemic 

Courtesy of the Florence Nightingale Museum

Colourist painter and Royal Academician Philip Sutton opens new gallery—at the age of 92

Art market

Commercial galleries

Royal Academy of Arts

Personal stories of coronavirus

Openings

Phillip Sutton will launch his new gallery in Bridport, England, on 3 Decemebr 

London’s Warburg Institute launches £14.5m expansion to revive the 'science of culture'

Building projects

London

Warburg Institute

Aby Warburg’s library in Hamburg, which was smuggled out of Nazi Germany to London in 1933 

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Simon Tait

'Hurrah, it’s leprosy!' How a conservator and a historian are decoding the grisly tales in Canterbury Cathedral’s stained-glass windows

Closure of London's Florence Nightingale Museum fuels fears that the pandemic will force smaller UK institutions to shut

Colourist painter and Royal Academician Philip Sutton opens new gallery—at the age of 92

London’s Warburg Institute launches £14.5m expansion to revive the 'science of culture'