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In Conversation: Raffaele Bedarida & Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator of MoMA

POSTED ON: February 10, 2016

On February 18 at 1.30 p.m. Raffaele Bedarida, adjunct instructor of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, will have a public conversation with Jim Coddington, chief conservator of MoMA, about restoring the works of Jackson Pollack. The Q&A will be held at MoMA and is free with museum admission. It will be held on the second floor in the Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries.

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