from The New York Times -
The Restorers’ Art of the Invisible
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When a museum becomes increasingly famous - or infamous, depending on one's cultural outlook - the actual building fabric takes on an aura of an over-size artefact.
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See also comments, "Will the Guggenheim be lost in restoration?", over at the Guardia Blog -
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/09/will_the_guggenheim_be_lost_in.html
"In any case, conservation purists must always remember that very many of the world's most memorable buildings have been rebuilt, for better and worse, many times. ... The idea of wholly original buildings being kept in a perfect state of pickled-in-aspic preservation is not one that has ever made much sense."