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Cornwell recently donated more than 50 works of art by Sickert to the Harvard Art Museum. “She would say that these are Jack the Ripper paintings,” said Henry Lie, director of conservation at the Harvard Art Museum...
...Straus Center. The new researcher will continue work currently being done at the center, which focuses on the close examination of art materials to determine artistic techniques and conservation methods. This conservation work is key to preserving the museum’s collections, said Daron J. Manoogian, a museum spokesman...
After receiving funds from the Mellon foundation, the center approached Cornwell, who has given to both the center and the museum in the past. “Ms. Cornwell has been a very generous benefactor,” Manoogian said...
...years before the new Shibuya station, designed by architect Tadao Ando, is built. "It is about regeneration," says Hirano. "Japanese people won't see themselves as victims, but carry a sense of pride and take a step forward. I hope they're inspired by it." In a museum, Hirano says, the mural would have a limited audience. But in the station, the work can speak to anyone. That is, anyone willing to step out of the rush and take a moment to look at a new work of art, 40 years in the making...
...Toshiko spearheaded a search for the mural. When it was located in September 2003 in a warehouse outside Mexico City, its surfaces deeply cracked from exposure, she made the recovery, restoration and return to Japan of Myth of Tomorrow her last project as director of the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum. She paid a fraction of the millions of dollars for the painting that Hirano says were spent transporting and restoring it. When it came to bringing it home, he says he and Toshiko explored every possibility of transporting the mural intact, but "even the pros couldn...