For the past six months, Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," born in 1907, has been undergoing a major restoration in the Museum of Modern Art's temporary conservation studio, in Queens, and it is a pleasure to report that the painting looks almost alarmingly healthy.
During the first three to four months of the exhibition, "Blue Boy" will lie on a flat table or sit on an easel in a temporary conservation studio at one end of the Thornton gallery as O'Connell works on it, on select days, with cotton swabs and tiny, fine-point brushes.
Consequently, we recommend integrating the concept of 'temporary conservation' into urban planning for industrial and business areas.
The results suggest that conservation of temporary pond amphibian assemblages in Mediterranean farmland requires networks of ponds with diverse hydroperiods, where the natural hydrologic regimes, less intensive land uses and isolation from irrigation waters should be preserved.
Water, daylight, gravity and salt air have taken their toll as the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey -- improvising a curatorial mission no one could have imagined -- has transformed the abandoned Tower Air hangar, five miles from the Atlantic Ocean, into a storehouse, conservation workshop, temporary museum and shrine.
Davis said there has been an increase in the number of indigenous people growing peyote in greenhouses across the United States, but that this is only a temporary solution to the conservation crisis.
To conserve temporary streams and rivers, ecologists need to define them as unique ecosystems and conservation targets, and practitioners need to systematically collect biological and hydrological data in these ecosystems.
The deal was a victory -- though a temporary one -- for nine conservation groups that accused the Bush administration of ignoring what they say is scientific evidence that the fishing practices used by tuna fishermen from Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America are harming depleted dolphin populations.
Using it to offset temporary price increases can discourage conservation and run down reserves that will be needed in any future crisis.
But on Monday it could be found in a new, temporary home, the Met's conservation laboratory, where experts there are trying to determine the best course of action for this 105-year-old painting's brand-new feature: an irregular, six-inch tear running vertically along the lower right-hand corner.
In the Imperial Valley, the fallowing is seen as only temporary as farmers install water-conservation devices in their fields.
