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Treatment of Marshal Xin of Thunder , a Chinese hanging scroll from the 16th century, was conducted on view to the public in gallery 178 from July…
Preparation of more than 260 ancient Greek objects for a new gallery which opened in December 2017
Go behind the scenes of the “Gender Bending Fashion” and “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular” exhibitions, and meet the Museum's curator of South Asian and…
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…