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Recreating Adam, From Hundreds of Fragments, After the Fall

By KR Projects

New York Times, November 8, 2014

“Recreating Adam”: It happened at 6 on a Sunday night. Adam — a strapping, 6-foot-3-inch marble sculpture by the Venetian Renaissance master Tullio Lombardo — fell to the ground on a patio at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, smashing into hundreds of pieces. “Nobody knew what had happened — it could have been foul play,” said Jack Soultanian, a conservator who was called to the museum that night in 2002.

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Ground Is Officially Broken on Met Museum’s ‘David H. Koch Plaza’

By KR Projects

New York Times, January 14, 2013

The Metropolitan Museum of Art held a formal ground-breaking on Monday morning for the $65 million makeover of its David H. Koch Plaza and fountains, a project that has been under construction since October. Wearing hard hats and brandishing shovels – both bearing the Met’s logo – museum and city officials ceremoniously dug into the dirt on the plaza.

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