About me
Lynda Zycherman is Conservator of Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. She received a B.A. from the City College of New York, an M.A. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and an Advanced Certificate in Art Conservation from the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts. She interned at the Corning Museum of Glass and Metropolitan Museum. In 1975, she became a conservator at the Freer Gallery of Art, where her specialty was the technical examination of ancient Chinese material, especially the techniques of ceremonial bronze manufacture. Over the past 40 years at MoMA, she has researched a wide variety of topics including Matisse, The Back I – IV (bronze), Brancusi’s bronze sculptures, Picasso’s bronze and plaster sculpture, deploying laser scanning and 3-D printing in art conservation, and the conservation of kinetic and Performance Art.
