“The Custodians”, by Ben Lerner (The New Yorker, January 8, 2016), begins as an article on how the Whitney Museum determines which works of art cannot be conserved and should be replicated, but shortly turns into a meditation on what it means to be a work of art today, how institutions acknowledge their intervention into the life of works of art, and how our inherited perceptions of what works of art should look like influence what is done to them. Another wonderful New Yorker article. It is becoming my favorite place to read about conservation.
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Here’s the link to the article itself..not sure why you couldn’t have included it in the original blog post, as it’s not behind a paywall. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/11/the-custodians-onward-and-upward-with-the-arts-ben-lerner