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Guarded Opinions 1

By Niko Fruechting; edited by Paul VanDeCarr

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Series edited by Paul VanDeCarr

In this new series for Esopus, museum guards talk about the artwork they oversee on a daily basis with writer/editor Paul VanDeCarr. For this first installment, Niko Freuchting, a guard at Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum, offers his impressions of a 1989 work by German minimalist Günter Umberg.

Niko Fruechting is currently a security guard at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA.

Paul VanDeCarr is a writer, editor, and trainer for UN agencies and other leading NGOs. He received his M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School. He lives and works in New York City.