It’s Saturday afternoon, it’s a nice
day in Philadelphia, why not get out of the conservation lab at the Museum of
Art and onto the Ellsworth Kelly? Time to give it one of its three-monthly
coatings of oil to prevent ongoing rusting. They do it with diluted linseed oil
apparently and it's something “that Kelly likes done.” This all made sense
until we read the label. It described the work as being constructed from
“weathering steel”. Not any more.
