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A Jackson Pollock Painting Gets A Touch-Up — And The Public's Invited To Watch

Those drips and dribbles collect a lot of dust, so conservator Chris Stavroudis is cleaning decades of accumulated grime off Pollock's Number 1, 1949 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
From March 4 to September 3, conservator Chris Stavroudis is part of the exhibition <em>Jackson Pollock's Number 1, 1949: A Conservation Treatment</em> at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Jackson Pollock's painting Number 1,is a swirl of multi-colored, spaghettied paint, dripped, flung and slung across a 5-by-8-foot canvas. It's a textured work — including nails and a bee (we'll get to that later) — and in the nearly 70 years since its creation, it's attracted a fair bit of dust, dirt and grime.

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