How to keep art of the 21st century going till the 22nd

Last December Curator Laura Barrecca and Conservator Alessandra Barbuto invited Jon Ippolito to speak on cultural preservation at Rome’s Museum of the Art of the 21st century (MAXXI), a dramatic building by famed architect Zaha Hadid that opened in June. Italians are well versed in the benefits and controversies of cultural preservation, from the excavation …