Daily News | At Philly’s Barnes Foundation, the biggest art thieves can be smaller than your thumb.
AnnaLivia McCarthy slowly strolled a dimly lit gallery at the Barnes Foundation on a recent afternoon, casting her flashlight across the surfaces of masterpieces. As the museum’s senior conservation coordinator, McCarthy was not merely appreciating priceless art — she was hunting pesky prey. Sneaky intruders who hide in shadows and make meals out of masterpieces.
You can stop itching now. Because McCarthy’s weekly bug patrols at the Barnes, conducted on days the museum is closed to the public, are not cause for alarm. Nor are its treasured ensemble of Renoirs, Cezzanes, and Mattisses, African art, Native American ceramics, antiquities, and decorative iron work and furniture infested by armies of creepy-crawlers.
“It’s not the sexiest thing in the world,” she said, of pest prevention. “But it’s something that protects the artwork, the building, the people, the visitors. It’s integral to making everything work around here.”“That it could be taken the wrong way,” said Buckley, sheepishly. “That the museum is full of bugs.”
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