What Medieval Art Has That Contemporary Art Badly Needs

“[M]ore than skill, technique, or inspiration, the current that reverberated through the halls of [the Cloisters] and those of so many of the great museums of the world, yet so few of the places where new art is still being made and shown is nothing if not the lingering vibration of the profound and unshakable devotion of the makers. Not to God, but to the work itself.”