According to “Once Hidden, a Guston Mural is Revived”, an article by Victoria Burnett in the February 4, 2025 issue of The New York Times, ”The Struggle Against Terrorism”, a mural painted by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish at the Regional Museum of Michoacan in 1934-1935 which had been hidden behind canvas screen from the mid-1940s until 1973, was restored by a team of Mexican mural conservators in 2024 and officially unveiled on January 31, 2025. Burnett speaks about the recreation of missing parts, noting: “They painted these with vertical brush strokes, a technique called rigatino that is used in fresco restoration so that people looking at the work can distinguish the new paint work from the original”. The readers of the Times have just been given a small lesson in mural conservation..
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