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Both problems--space and climate control--come down to a question of money, and raising that money will be Slive's highest priority. The planned installation of a system to filter dust and pollutants out of the air and control the relative humidity inside the Fogg will necessitate closing a third of the building at a time for three-month stretches...
...Fogg is desperately over-crowded. We don't even have the space to show our principal works of art." Slive says...
...space they do have is often in poor shape. A report drawn up in 1972 by the Visiting Committee on the Fogg states. "The physical building has not been touched in 44 years and much of it is shoddy and uncommodious." Due to the lack of atmospheric controls, there has been a general rotting away of the museum's collection. "Anything that is really critical can be gotten to," says chief conservateur Arthur Beale, but there is a two year backlog of work in all four laboratories"--painting, objects, paper and research...
...museum is already short of about 35,000 square feet of space and could not absorb its holdings from the areas that would be closed off. So the climate control system, whose cost was estimated at $500,000 five years ago, really can't be installed until the Fogg gets its addition, which Slive says will cost at least $7,000,000. And so he sits in his office, surrounded by a selection of the Fogg's surplus holdings, waiting for the knock of some donor who will liberate them...
While past directors have influenced the Fogg through their efforts as collectors. Slive's efforts will be directed more towards ensuring the well-being of what the museum already has. "His main challenge will be to refurbish the building, to expand it, to make the Fogg's fiscal structure sound," says Rosenfield. "The museum is at a crossroads in this sense...