There is a step in conservation called consolidation, and it is the least glamorous and most important thing I do. Before you clean, before you inpaint, before any of the visible miracle-work — when a painting is flaking, when the paint is lifting off the canvas in a thousand tiny scales and the whole image is quietly turning to dust at the edges — you stop everything and you consolidate. You get adhesive under the lifting paint, scale by scale, and you press it back down to the ground it...

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