Art Review: John La Farge Stained-Glass Windows at Judson Memorial Church

New York’s in sad shape these days. The nursing home COVID catastrophe, homeless sleeping on the streets, all those stores sacked by the mostly peaceful protesters, a trashed culture sector, rising crime, and people just not wanting to live there . . . all are the new realities as the city slides back to the early ’90s, if not the ’70s.

Though I come from a long line of Protestant ministers, I’m an art historian. My evangelizing surrounds art. New Yorkers could do worse for themselves than going to church, however pagan their beliefs or however much they’re driven by ignorance. I’m a doctor, remember, the art history kind, so don’t ask me to do a tracheotomy, but I’m happy to prescribe some stained glass.

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Brian T. Allen

Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

New York’s in sad shape these days. The nursing home COVID catastrophe, homeless sleeping on the streets, all those stores sacked by the mostly peaceful protesters, a trashed culture sector, rising crime, and people just not wanting to live there . . . all are the new realities as the city slides back to the early ’90s, if not the ’70s.

Though I come from a long line of Protestant ministers, I’m an art historian. My evangelizing surrounds art. New Yorkers could do worse for themselves than going to church, however pagan their beliefs or however much they’re driven by ignorance. I’m a doctor, remember, the art history kind, so don’t ask me to do a tracheotomy, but I’m happy to prescribe some stained glass.