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Michael Gallagher
Michael Gallagher is the Sherman Fairchild Chairman of Paintings Conservation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
July/August 2019
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Brokering Truths: The Inescapability of Subjectivity
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Michael Gallagher
The modern role of a professional paintings conservator has, in many ways, been shaped by controversy.
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