It’s Kind Of Like Watching Paint Dry

The world of art restoration is a mysterious one to even the most frequent of museumgoers, but a new program launched by the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts is giving non-experts a glimpse of the processes involved in caring for great and aging artwork. “On two occasions now, the Institute has performed its magic in a public gallery, so that visitors could witness the techniques in progress and in person – and for those who may have been prevented by time or geography from following the exhibit first-hand… the entire process [is archived for public viewing] on the web.”