How does Kendall Band elucidate its Decline into disrepair?
A one-time $10,000 fix was paid for by the MBTA in 2007, but the transit agency then stated that it could not fund any future repairs.  All further repairs made to the sculpture had to be carried out and paid for by Matisse out of his own pocket.  In 2007, when the now 74-year-old Paul Matisse stopped patching up the Kendall Band, the sculpture quickly fell into disrepair. Out of the original six handles, four had been removed, and only Galileo was in a working state.The only original engineering drawings for the Kendall Band were also lost in a hard-drive crash during this period, requiring documentation to be reconstructed from disassembly and direct measurement of components.
Paul Matisse MBTA