Word: painting
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...down by the denim developments, is now making extremely limited-run jeans, mimicking those in its archive. One style, called Rose Bowl, is copied from a pair of 1933 jeans found at a Rose Bowl flea market. Another, Picket Sign, replicates a pair of '30s jeans down to the paint spatters. Some styles will have manufacturing runs of as few as 50 pairs. Both Levi's and Diesel have opened high-end specialized stores. Diesel will launder its $200 jeans free to maintain the color. New Levi's arrive every six to eight weeks to keep up with quicksilver consumer...
...remarkable because he was so much alone, a man without colleagues or rivals in his culture. (He left Spain only twice--first when he was too young to matter, and then, fleeing from the squalid oppressiveness of Ferdinand VII's Bourbon regime, when he was almost too old to paint...
Narayan Khandekar, a senior conservation scientist at the Straus Center—he has a Ph.D. in chemistry and is also trained as an artist—points out the layered colors of the paint speck. It turns out that the solid blue is actually many layers of different blues, with a white layer on top—a layer that he guesses is lime from the concrete that the flood water ran through...
...picks a tube of paint off her desk that’s marked “W.P.A.”—the Works Progress Administration, started by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. The paint in the tubes is still remarkably supple over a half-century later...
...Tubes of paint, brushes, discarded boards—these are things that only a conservator could love...