Should museums be allowed to alter works of art in their care to create other works of art? James Fenton protests. “Tate ‘conservators’ have conspired with the exploding-shed-monger and brass-instrument-crusher, Cornelia Parker, to wrap Rodin’s marble group, ‘The Kiss’, in a mile of string. They should not have done this. It should be a principle of conservation that nothing unnecessary is done to an original work of art in a public collection, and I don’t care what the ‘conservators’ say about the care they took in executing this banal intervention. They wouldn’t have dared do this to Brancusi. They shouldn’t have done this to Rodin.”