Guarding Matisse, photo by Andy Freeberg

From a series of in situ portraits of the women who oversee Russian art museums—a job which is probably by turns incredibly boring and incredibly interesting. Sitting for hours in the presence of a painting is something that few of us have the patience for, even if we do have the opportunity. “Matisse’s Still Life with Blue Tablecloth, State Hermitage Museum,” by Andrew Freeberg, The Morning News, 4 January 2010