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For your information: An article on installing the upcoming tapestry exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York! Mary Ballard

ARTS / ART & DESIGN   | October 11, 2007
Splendid Threads Off the Walls of Monarchs
By CAROL VOGEL
It took a team of more than 20 technicians, conservators, art handlers and riggers an entire day to install “The Triumph of the Church Over Ignorance and Blindness,” one of 44 tapestries in “Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor,” which opens at the Met on Wednesday.

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