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Conservation and restoration

Guardians of Memory
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The quest to save ancient manuscripts

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The Business of Scenery
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Why America’s national parks need new management

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Monumental Error
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Will New York City finally tear down a statue?

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Unreconstructed
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The federal government builds a shrine to its archenemy

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Inglorious restorations
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Destroying old masterpieces in order to save them

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The lost buddhas of Bamiyan
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Picking up the pieces in Afghanistan

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All the lonely people
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The Countess of Stanlein restored
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Sound and soundness in a Stradivarius violoncello

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The Old Dictionary
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By Lydia Davis, in the Fall 1999 issue of Bomb. “The Old Dictionary” appears in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, published in 2010 by Picador. I have an old dictionary, about…

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Art’s grime and place
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