This seems kind of typical of the Department of Education: A stained glass window designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany has been hidden in the closet of a Brooklyn public school. And NY1 only discovered it because the station was working on a series about art in the public schools.
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Trapped In A Closet: Valuable Tiffany Window Found In Brooklyn School
JFK Stained Glass Departs, Help for Terminal 5 Arrives
Workers are almost done dismantling the 317 feet long, 23 feet wide stained-glass exterior to the American Airlines’ vacant Terminal 8 building. The red, blue and white wall, comprised of 900 panes of glass, was designed by artist Robert Sowers and was completed in 1960; at the time it was the world’s largest stained-glass window and the first to heavily incorporate stained glass in a secular building, an aesthetic that soon became fashionable.
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