MoMA conservators repair structural damage and cracks on a concrete “sprite” statue from Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, a Chicago dancehall and biergarten demolished in 1929.
Featuring Ellen Moody, Assistant Projects Conservator and Jessica Betz, Graduate Conservation Intern.
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