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Photographers in Africa grasped the opportunity to serve a lucrative market for images of the continent, both locally and worldwide, during the global…
A vibrant and active community of jewelry makers at the turn of the century in Boston, united by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, created…
New member Liz Koch describes her favorite Museum Council event and why she joined.
Laura Weinstein talks about the relationship between South Asian and Islamic art, and the importance of a new installation by contemporary Indian…
Conservation in Action: Preserving Nirvana, July 2016
With the scroll safely dismantled from its mounting, preparation of the new mounting silks begins. The Death of the Historical Buddha is a devotional…
Conservation in Action: Preserving Nirvana, August 2016
On August 20, 2016, MFA conservators, along with colleagues from the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, begin treating the…
Conservation in Action: Preserving Nirvana, September 2016
With the painting relined with two layers of handmade usu-mino paper, supplementary linings need to be applied to the painting and to the various…
Conservation in Action: Preserving Nirvana, October 2016
With all the individual mounting sections lined and stretch dried, and the painting repaired and similarly lined and dried, preparations are underway…
Conservation in Action: Preserving Nirvana, November 2016
After joining, two more linings, covering the entire back of the scroll, are required to support and hold the overall structure together. Next, the so…
Conservation Project: Guanyin, Introduction
In late 2014, conservators began the technical examination and treatment of the twelfth century Chinese sculpture, Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Compassion…