Word: mancusi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Carol C. Mancusi-Ungaro, director of the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art at the Harvard University Art Museums and director of conservation at the Whitney Museum, points out that non-representational art like Rothko’s murals traditionally concerns itself “so much about color, when people see the colors changed they think the paintings have changed...
...attributing this much significance to the shifts in color is a judgment of modern art that neglects the lessons we have learned from art of the past, says Mancusi-Ungaro. She contends that these faded Rothko murals should not be considered relics...
...weren’t for the bare bookshelves, standard-issue office furniture and a collection of tools used by some of modern art’s most famous painters, you might mistake noted conservator Carol Mancusi-Ungaro’s office on the top floor of the Fogg Art Museum for a closet. When she was hired to start Harvard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art in December 2000, she inherited the University’s legacy as the inventor of art conservation a century ago, and was charged with making Harvard a world leader...
...Mancusi-Ungaro was promised a modern art museum, but University President Lawrence H. Summers and his planners last summer gave up the fight for that building, bowing to community opposition. And renovations to the dilapidated Fogg—which lacks climate-control systems to preserve art and the laboratory space to restore it—await funding from central administration. Mancusi-Ungaro fears that without a substantial commitment from Mass. Hall, Harvard may not have the resources to accept the donations of influential work that will maintain its position atop the university museum pecking order...
...Harvard’s art museums], founded as a beacon of the exchange of ideas about art [are] now relegated to something that is not nearly as active as it should be,” Mancusi-Ungaro says. “That threatens the arts here...