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It’s a “pretty extraordinary thing” to restore Sargent’s murals, says Gianfranco Pocobene, a paintings conservator involved in the restoration.
While all the murals are accessible on a special website set up by the Boston Pubilc Library, this restoration will soon include an unlikely frill: a kiosk below the scaffolding with a webcam that will broadcast all the touch-ups live to that site.
“It’s going to be set up in the next few weeks,” says Pocobene, who doesn’t expect restoration work to end before December.
Much of the rhetoric advanced by war’s proponents rests on the premise that our efforts at “liberation” will lead to a more democratic Iraq; but this is overly optimistic. Installing the mechanisms for democratic government in Iraq—whose infrastructure will...
According to principal Andrea Leers, the intent of the design is to create an open and accessible facade, “delicate” in its detailing. The building understands its context, standing at a height that does not overpower its historic neighbors, the Fox and the D.U. clubhouses. This...