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Don't Throw It Out: The Art Nurse on saving art in the wake of Hurricane Sandy

The Brooklyn studio of artist Leon Reid in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Reid, like so many artists and galleries in the city, had much of his work destroyed by the unprecedented surge. (Image courtesy of Reid.)

Restoring the Hall of North American Mammals

The Rustin Levenson team of conservators, together with Museum artists, led a masterful restoration of the Hall of North American Mammals, which first opened in 1942 and has offered generations of Museum visitors spectacular views of North American natural heritage. Here, in the iconic dioramas based on precise field observations, are scenes featuring the moose and brown bears of Alaska, cougars in the Grand Canyon, and the wolves of Gunflint Lake, Minnesota, among others.

 

Stripped bare and bathed: The Preservation of Dali's masterworks at the Dali Museum

Looking After the Dali Collection (videos)

Keith Haring
Keith Haring
New Life Given to a Joyful Mural

The Keith Haring Bathroom, as it is now called, has been stripped of toilets, sinks and stalls and is used as a meeting room. But to show off a recently completed $25,000 conservation of the mural, the center will ...

1972 Arnold Belkin Mural in Hell's Kitchen In Dire Need of Restoration

 The New York City Committee of Rescue Public Murals, a national organization that does what its name suggests, has once again engaged the services of Rustin Levenson Art Conservation Associates to assist in the conservation of this important public mural. (New York Times.)

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