Time Magazine reporter Vivianne Walt recently interviewed me about the ongoing restoration of the Cathedral of Paris and the role of the Friends of Notre-Dame-de-Paris.
“The damage can only accelerate,” says Andrew Tallon, an associate professor of art at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and an expert on Gothic architecture. Having carefully studied the damage, he says the restoration work is urgent. If the cathedral is left alone, its structural integrity could be at risk. “The flying buttresses, if they are not in place, the choir could come down,” he says. “The more you wait, the more you need to take down and replace.”