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...regular basis, with little security, and with furniture that came up above the level of the paintings, the fading was inevitably accompanied by physical destruction: tears to two of the paintings, a food stain and even one instance of graffiti. Though conservators at the Fogg Museum were able to repair these blemishes, taking Panels Two and Three down in 1979 for repairs meant that only two paintings would remain in the penthouse, as Panel Four had come down...
According to O’Connor, the damage may take anywhere from six to eight months to repair...
...bound to be shaped by tradition, it is also possible, I think, to shape it. The other day I found that a seam in the lining of my coat had split. I mended it with lavender thread; it is not a repair you’d notice unless you turned the lining inside out. Still, it pleases me to think of the lavender stitches, to think that the next person to inherit this coat will look at those stitches and imagine me. In this small, invisible way, I have made...
It’s very charming—for a museum. To live in, it needs a lot of work. Now, on top of the canine medical updates, I am regaled with regular accounts of house repair. “Guy swears he hears the house breath ‘thank you’ each time he removes one of the ‘carbuncles’ with which they disfigured it,” my mother wrote last week. “I don’t know how funny a piece about our house purchase will...
Bergman, on the other hand, has been suffering from what reportedly amounts to a more severe version of the same exact knee problem Lingman has long endured, with future arthroscopic surgery to repair a potentially torn meniscus a distinct possibility...