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WHALE OF A TIME Oman is the only Arab member of the International Whaling Commission, dedicated to the conservation of whales. The waters off the coast of Oman are home to more than 20 species of marine mammals and provide both breeding and feeding grounds for sperm whales, dolphins and...
The founding director of Harvard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art—located in the climate-controlled Straus Center for Conservation on the top floor of the Fogg Art Museum—Mancusi-Ungaro is an artist for modern artists.
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...
“[Conservation] follows the medical model,” she says. “A doctor takes care of a patient no matter the cost.”
“Carol is somebody who is able to take a really informed, sensitive approach to conservation, to be cautious, to do the art historical homework, to talk to the artist and not necessarily to capitulate to the artist...but to be informed by whatever they can tell conservators...