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...forgotten and the current plans for a museum in Allston postponed, CTSMA has a slightly different role from the one proponents envisioned. “At this point, it is more a virtual reality than a physical one,” says the Center’s director, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro. She and her assistant currently comprise the department, collecting, preserving, and presenting materials and research relevant to the conservation of modern art. Unfortunately, until the HUAM move, access to Newman’s materials and tools will be limited. Mancusi-Ungaro has long had ties to Newman...
...paint is almost impossible to see; as Khandekar points out, it is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence.These specks drew world-wide attention on Jan. 29 of this year, when Khandekar, Fogg Associate Curator of Modern Art Harry Cooper, and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Christina B. Rosenberger of Havard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art released a report declaring that some of the samples contain pigments that had not been used as artists’ paint until 1996.Khandakar’s samples came from the paintings Matter discovered five years...
...world’s most expensive masterpiece. The Harvard investigation was a collaboration between Harry Cooper, a curator of modern art at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum; Narayan Khandekar, a senior conservation scientist at the Straus Center for Conservation, an arm of the Harvard museums; and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Christina B. Rosenberger of Havard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art. The analysis of pigments and binding media was conducted largely at the Straus Center. Alex Matter—the son of photographer Herbert Matter and painter Mercedes Matter—first reported...
...Mancusi-Ungaro says a new art museum would also mean a home for her Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art. This center, established when she was hired, is concerned with exactly the issues that Rothko’s murals have brought to the fore...
...work of art should change in a way that is not fully understood, then the center would do the research necessary to address the problem,” said Mancusi-Ungaro. This holistic view of the artistic process would, in her mind, provide exactly the body of knowledge that Rothko lacked, the absence of which led to the considerable damage the Harvard murals sustained...