The town of Cody experiences seasons—a cycle that parallels the natural world on its circular journey through space. In winter, while plants are in slumber and creatures lay low, those […]
SEP-ARRA: Your Tax Dollars at Work
It was autumn of 2009, and the news was not good… The old steam boilers which provided heat and, indirectly, humidification for our 1967 building addition (the Whitney Museum, Buffalo […]
On Mechanical System Shutdown in Collection Storage Areas
Our chief conservator, Beverly Perkins, returned this week from the 42nd annual conference of the American Institute for Conservation held this year in San Francisco. She thought I might be […]
A Sense of Place: Laura Bell’s “Claiming Ground”
I just finished reading a book, Claiming Ground by Laura Bell. Sometimes I manage to string a few words together in a pretty way, and I feel smug with myself, […]
Traveling With Charlie Russell
I dreamed the other night I was traveling with Charlie Russell. The first scene of my dream was suggestive of Frederic Remington’s painting A Post Office in the “Cow Country.” […]
Air Compressor Efficiency Improvement: Facilites Compressor part 2
Our big Facilities air compressor has capacity control by way of what the manufacturer calls a poppet valve. As the compressor builds pressure to its setpoint, a regulator applies pressure on the […]
