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Carol Mancusi-Ungaro

is the Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Entwined: Artist’s Voice and Conservator’s Expertise

By Carol Mancusi-Ungaro

Artists make art and conservators preserve that art for posterity. The creative impulses differ but the engagement with material, sensitive regard for appearance, exquisite play with intention, and flat-out work bear a comfortable familiarity that enables intellectual interplay between them.

Carol Mancusi-Ungaro interviewing artist Edward Ruscha. Pictured: <em>Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights,</em> 1962, by Edward Ruscha. Oil, house paint, ink, and graphite pencil on canvas, 66 15/16 × 133 1/8 in. (170 × 338.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Mrs. Percy Uris Purchase Fund 85.41. © Ed Ruscha. Photograph by Heather Cox
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JUNE 2023

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