Prime Video has had a big year so far with new projects, and it’s only set to draw more attention as the fourth season of Reacher looms in the shadows. The big-budget action show stars Alan Ritchson (War Machine), and although Season 4 has not even set an official return date, the show has already been picked up for Season 5. Prime Video also recently wrapped up the fourth season of Invincible, its hit animated superhero series led by Steven Yeun and J.K. Simmons. On the same day as the Season 4 finale, Prime Video confirmed that more episodes of the show would return before the close of 2027. The other big Prime Video series that’s been in the spotlight this year is The Boys, which officially concluded earlier this week after seven years and five full seasons.
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“Paintings arrive at the studio in all states of disrepair,” shares art conservator Julian Baumgartner, who receives artworks in need of attention all the time. He adds, “It is, however, odd to have a painting arrive in a manner that can’t help but make one wonder just how bad it is.” An anonymous portrait was indeed folded inside a parcel that itself had been mangled enough in transit to make one think, Is this going to be salvageable? For the highly trained painting restorer, though, “Fortune favors the fold.”
Baumgartner has seen his fair share of bad overpainting and, in this case, pretty substantial creases, tears, and worn-away paint. He runs Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, a Chicago-based studio focused on ensuring that works of art are conserved and repaired so future generations can continue to enjoy them. With painstaking attention to detail and—just as importantly—the use of reversible, archival materials, this neglected portrait is given what seems like an almost miraculous second chance.
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