{"id":26755,"date":"2025-04-23T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26755"},"modified":"2025-04-28T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:23:10","slug":"at-a-pennsylvania-museum-an-artists-glass-dome-provides-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26755","title":{"rendered":"At a Pennsylvania Museum, an Artist\u2019s Glass Dome Provides Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This article is part of our Museums special section<\/a> about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSuper\/Natural\u201d \u2014 an immersive, dome-shape work of art in stained glass by Judith Schaechter \u2014 is really best experienced from the inside.<\/p>\n

Step through its small portal, and in the right light you will be surrounded by the polychromatic glow of birds, stars, insects and fantastical plants and roots. Earlier this year, I was able to experience it myself in Schaechter\u2019s home studio and felt a curious combination of serenity and awe.<\/p>\n

This is by design, it turns out: Radiance has a profound effect on human beings \u2014 something that medieval architects and glass artisans understood centuries ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not a religious person, but it is hard not to feel overcome by a sense of awe and wonder when you enter the dome,\u201d said Laura Turner Igoe, chief curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum<\/a> in Doylestown, Pa. The eight-foot-tall work, and nine glass panels and two related drawings exploring humanity\u2019s relationship with the cosmos, are now on view there in \u201cJudith Schaechter: Super\/Natural,\u201d which opened April 12 and runs through Sept. 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cYou are surrounded by a riot of plants, insects, birds,\u201d Igoe said, and even \u201cskeletons and bones. It represents both the glorious abundance of life and its interconnectedness with death and decay. It\u2019s beautiful, but it\u2019s also a little scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cJudith Schaechter: Super\/Natural,\u201d is showing at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., through Sept. 14.<\/span>Hannah Yoon for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times.\u201cSuper\/Natural\u201d \u2014 an immersive, dome-shape work of art in stained glass by Judith Schaechter \u2014 is really best experienced from the inside.Step through its small portal, and in the right light you will be surrounded by the polychromatic glow of birds, stars, insects and fantastical plants and roots. Earlier this year, I was able to experience it myself in Schaechter\u2019s home studio and felt a curious combination of serenity and awe.This is by design, it turns out: Radiance has a profound effect on human beings \u2014 something that medieval architects and glass artisans understood centuries ago.\u201cI am not a religious person, but it is hard not to feel overcome by a sense of awe and wonder when you enter the dome,\u201d said Laura Turner Igoe, chief curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa. The eight-foot-tall work, and nine glass panels and two related drawings exploring humanity\u2019s relationship with the cosmos, are now on view there in \u201cJudith Schaechter: Super\/Natural,\u201d which opened April 12 and runs through Sept. 14.\u201cYou are surrounded by a riot of plants, insects, birds,\u201d Igoe said, and even \u201cskeletons and bones. It represents both the glorious abundance of life and its interconnectedness with death and decay. It\u2019s beautiful, but it\u2019s also a little scary.\u201d\u201cJudith Schaechter: Super\/Natural,\u201d is showing at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., through Sept. 14.Hannah Yoon for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26757,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26758,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26755\/revisions\/26758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}