On Saturday night September 6th, the Picasso curtain which had adorned the lobby of the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building for fifty-five years was taken down and sent on its way to a conservation treatment and its future home. As if the long battle between the building\u2019s owner and the curtain\u2019s owner did not have enough drama, Benjamin Mueller writing about the deinstallation in The New York Times, (\u201cAfter 55 Years in Vaunted Spot, A Picasso is Persuaded to Curl\u201d, September 8, 2014), described a scene with lots of drama telling the reader that \u201cone false tug could cause its [the curtain\u2019s] demise\u201d and noting that \u201cthe spector of the unknown haunted the proceedings\u201d. As conservators, we know the careful planning and consideration for safety that goes into such an operation. Am I alone in finding Mr. Mueller\u2019s manufactured drama a bit insulting to the professionals involved? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On Saturday night September 6th, the Picasso curtain which had adorned the lobby of the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram Building for fifty-five years was taken down and sent on its way to a conservation treatment and its future home. As if the long battle between the building\u2019s owner and the curtain\u2019s owner did … Continue reading “There was no need for drama. It was carefully planned”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}